Google Ads Transparency Scraper

Extract every ad a company runs on Google (Search, YouTube, Shopping, Maps, Play) from the public Google Ads Transparency Center. Search by brand name, domain, advertiser ID or pasted URL and get creatives, formats, first/last shown dates, days active and per-country reach. No Google account, no cookies.

Independent tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by Google LLC. It reads only data Google publishes publicly in the Ads Transparency Center.

What you get

One clean JSON row per ad creative (real result, shortened):

{
  "creativeId": "CR04488592264313962497",
  "advertiserName": "Grocery Delivery E-Services USA Inc.",
  "domain": "hellofresh.com",
  "format": "TEXT",
  "firstShown": "2026-04-29T03:41:27.000Z",
  "lastShown": "2026-10-16T17:41:03.000Z",
  "shownForDays": 172,
  "imageUrl": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/11360510690000944312",
  "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR00930880903813529601/creative/CR04488592264313962497?region=US",
  "region": "US"
}

Try it in 1 click: the prefilled example runs in under a minute. Press Start with the prefilled input (nike.com, region US): in our test today it finished in 14 seconds at 512 MB. It returns up to 100 ads, so it costs at most $0.16.

Price: $1.60 per 1,000 ads, pay per result, no start fee. Full creative details +$2.40 per 1,000 (only if you turn them on).

Why use this scraper

• Up to 20% cheaper per ad than comparable Google Ads Transparency actors, pay only for results.
• Drop-in compatible input: the common field names (queries, domains, advertiserIds, startUrls, region, platforms, adFormat, startDate, endDate, maxAdsPerSearch, includeDetails, onlyNewAds…) work as they do in other popular Transparency Center actors, so switching usually means changing only the actor ID.
• Monitoring built in: schedule it with onlyNewAds and get only newly launched ads.
• Lightweight HTTP requests, no browser: fast and inexpensive runs.

What you can do with it

• Competitor ad research: list all creatives of a competitor and sort by shownForDays to find the ads that keep running (usually the ones that work).
• Ad check / lead qualification: feed a list of companies in advertisers mode and see who advertises on Google and roughly how much.
• Creative swipe files: collect image and video ad previews by brand, format or platform.
• Market and regional analysis: see in which countries each ad ran and when it was last shown.
• New-ad alerts: run daily with onlyNewAds and connect Slack, email or a webhook.

Input

Mix any targets freely:

{
  "queries": ["Nike", "hellofresh.com"],
  "domains": ["gymshark.com"],
  "advertiserIds": ["AR16735076323512287233"],
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233?region=US" }],
  "resultType": "ads",
  "region": "US",
  "platforms": ["YOUTUBE"],
  "adFormat": "VIDEO",
  "startDate": "2026-01-01",
  "maxAdsPerSearch": 200,
  "includeDetails": false
}

Field	What it does
queries	Brand names are matched to advertisers via the Transparency Center search; domain-like values are used as domains.
domains	Ads from every advertiser that points to the domain.
advertiserIds	IDs starting with AR, from the advertiser page URL.
startUrls / urlsFromFile	Advertiser, creative or domain-search URLs; bulk lists as text, .txt/.csv link, public Google Sheet or Drive file.
resultType	ads (one row per creative) or advertisers (one row per advertiser with Google's approximate ad count).
region	Two-letter country code or ANYWHERE.
platforms	SEARCH, YOUTUBE, SHOPPING, MAPS, PLAY (empty = all). Google applies this filter to ads shown from September 2023.
adFormat	ALL, TEXT, IMAGE, VIDEO.
startDate / endDate	Date window, YYYY-MM-DD.
maxAdsPerSearch / maxAdvertisersPerQuery	Limits per target and per brand-name query.
includeDetails	Adds all A/B variations and the countries where the ad ran (one extra request and charge per ad).
onlyNewAds / monitorStoreName	Monitoring mode, remembers seen creative IDs between runs.

Output

ads mode, one item per creative:

{
  "creativeId": "CR04488592264313962497",
  "advertiserId": "AR00930880903813529601",
  "advertiserName": "Grocery Delivery E-Services USA Inc.",
  "domain": "hellofresh.com",
  "format": "TEXT",
  "firstShown": "2026-04-29T03:41:27.000Z",
  "lastShown": "2026-10-16T17:41:03.000Z",
  "shownForDays": 172,
  "previewType": "image",
  "imageUrl": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/11360510690000944312",
  "previewUrl": null,
  "width": 364,
  "height": 305,
  "googleCreativeId": null,
  "googleCustomerId": null,
  "adGroupId": null,
  "versionId": null,
  "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR00930880903813529601/creative/CR04488592264313962497?region=US",
  "region": "US"
}

Text, video and rich ads come with a Google-hosted previewUrl plus the internal googleCustomerId (group ads by ad account) and adGroupId (group ads by campaign). With includeDetails each item also has variationCount, variations[] and regionsShown[] ({ "region": "US", "lastShownDate": "2026-10-16" }).

advertisers mode returns advertiserId, name, legalName, countryCode, approxAdCountLow, approxAdCountHigh, verified, matchedQuery, advertiserUrl, region. Ad counts are the approximate ranges Google displays.

Pricing

Pay per event, no start fee:

Event	Price
Ad creative	$0.0016
Full creative detail (only with includeDetails)	$0.0024
Advertiser summary	$0.0024

Example: 1,000 ads cost $1.60. Set a maximum total charge on the run to cap spending; the actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

Migrating from scrapesage/google-ads-transparency-scraper

The input field names are the same, so in most cases you only change the actor ID (scrapesage/google-ads-transparency-scraper → lagenuina_agency/google-ads-transparency-scraper) and keep your JSON input.

scrapesage input	This actor	Notes
queries	queries	Same: brand names or domains.
domains	domains	Same.
advertiserIds	advertiserIds	Same (AR…).
startUrls	startUrls	Same: advertiser, creative or domain-search URLs.
urlsFromFile	urlsFromFile	Same: text list, .txt/.csv link, public Google Sheet or Drive file.
resultType	resultType	Same values: ads, advertisers.
region	region	Same: two-letter code or ANYWHERE.
platforms	platforms	Same values.
adFormat	adFormat	Same values.
startDate / endDate	startDate / endDate	Same, YYYY-MM-DD.
maxAdsPerSearch	maxAdsPerSearch	Same, default 100.
maxAdvertisersPerQuery	maxAdvertisersPerQuery	Same, default 5, max 10.
includeDetails	includeDetails	Same.
detailConcurrency	detailConcurrency	Same, default 6.
onlyNewAds / monitorStoreName	onlyNewAds / monitorStoreName	Same. Monitoring memory is not shared between actors: the first run here returns all current ads again.
includeRawData	includeRawData	Same.
proxyConfiguration	proxyConfiguration	Default here is Apify Proxy (datacenter) instead of residential; pass the residential group if you prefer it.

Output: the fields in scrapesage's dataset views (creativeId, advertiserName, advertiserId, domain, format, firstShown, lastShown, shownForDays, imageUrl, previewUrl, googleCustomerId, adUrl, region; advertisers: advertiserId, name, countryCode, approxAdCountLow, approxAdCountHigh, legalName, verified, matchedQuery, advertiserUrl, region) are all present with the same names. This actor also adds previewType, width, height, adGroupId and versionId on ad rows.

Price per 1,000 results (public Apify Store prices, checked on 17 October 2026):

Event	scrapesage	This actor
Ad creative	$2.00	$1.60
Full creative detail (optional)	$3.00	$2.40
Advertiser summary	$3.00	$2.40

Speed and completeness: we have not benchmarked the two actors side by side. Run the same input on both and compare your own runs.

Limits / not supported

• Only what the Transparency Center publishes: no spend, impressions, clicks or targeting for commercial ads. Political-ad spend reports are not collected.
• Ad text is not extracted as plain text: text, video and rich ads come as Google-hosted previews (previewUrl / imageUrl).
• One region per run (a two-letter country code or ANYWHERE). For several countries, run once per country.
• Brand-name queries are matched through Google's advertiser search and can hit several accounts, or a similarly named one; use advertiserIds for an exact advertiser. At most 10 advertisers per brand name.
• platforms filtering is applied by Google only to ads shown from September 2023.
• Ad counts in advertisers mode are Google's approximate ranges, not exact numbers.
• A/B variations and the per-country list (regionsShown) require includeDetails, which adds one request and one charge per ad.

Monitoring new ads

1. Turn on onlyNewAds and give each watched brand its own monitorStoreName.
2. The first run returns all current ads and stores their IDs; next runs return (and bill) only new ones.
3. Create an Apify Schedule (daily or weekly) and add a Slack, email or webhook integration.

Use it from AI agents (MCP)

The actor is available as a tool to any MCP client (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, custom agents) through the Apify MCP server:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=lagenuina_agency/google-ads-transparency-scraper"
    }
  }
}

Then ask your agent things like "List the YouTube video ads nike.com ran in Italy this month" or "Which of these 20 companies advertise on Google Search?". The input fields map directly to the question (brand, domain, region, platform, format, dates), and results come back as clean JSON.

Tips

• Brand names can match several advertiser accounts: check maxAdvertisersPerQuery or use the exact advertiserIds.
• For full history of a domain across countries use region: "ANYWHERE".
• Apify Proxy is on by default; switch to the residential group only if very large runs get blocked.

Integrations and API

Call it from your code with the official Apify clients:

# pip install apify-client
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("lagenuina_agency/google-ads-transparency-scraper").call(run_input={"queries": ["nike.com"], "region": "US", "maxAdsPerSearch": 20})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

// npm i apify-client
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('lagenuina_agency/google-ads-transparency-scraper').call({"queries": ["nike.com"], "region": "US", "maxAdsPerSearch": 20});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

No-code: use the Apify app in n8n, Make or Zapier (action "Run Actor", pick lagenuina_agency/google-ads-transparency-scraper), or the langchain-apify / CrewAI ApifyActorsTool integrations for AI agents. Results can also be pushed to Google Sheets, Slack, webhooks or any S3 bucket via Apify integrations.

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FAQ

Do I need a Google account? No, the Transparency Center is public.

Is there a Google Ads Transparency Center API? Google does not offer a public API for the Transparency Center. This actor works as one: send brands, domains or advertiser IDs via the Apify API and get JSON back, from Python, JavaScript, n8n, Make, Zapier or MCP.

How do I see all Google ads of a competitor? Put the competitor's domain in queries (e.g. "competitor.com"), set region to ANYWHERE for every country, and raise maxAdsPerSearch. Sort the dataset by shownForDays to find the ads that ran longest.

Is it legal? The actor collects data Google publishes for transparency purposes. You are responsible for how you use it; check your local laws and Google's terms.

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