# Changelog of Google Ads Transparency Scraper (`lergassy/google-ads-transparency-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lergassy/google-ads-transparency-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/lergassy/google-ads-transparency-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 2026-10-13

- The format filter now asks Google for that format directly. Before, it looked only through the first 1,000 ads, so an advertiser with thousands of text ads (Booking.com in Germany) wrongly got "No VIDEO ads" although it runs video ads.
- Every run now ends with a status message: how many ads were delivered, or why nothing was found.

### 2026-10-09

- A run with a short Timeout now stops starting new advertisers 30 s before it and finishes normally with every ad collected; advertisers it did not start are listed in the `NOT_ATTEMPTED` record and not charged (previously such a run ended as TIMED-OUT).

### 2026-10-01

- Runs with a maximum cost per run no longer stop before the limit is used up.

### 2026-09-29

- Clearer input field descriptions.

### 2026-09-27

- Runs stop cleanly at your maximum cost instead of being aborted; nothing beyond your limit is written or charged.

### 2026-09-26

- New fields: `daysShown`, `landingDomain`, and `width`/`height` for image ads.
- Lower price per ad.

### 2026-09-22

- Initial release: every ad an advertiser runs on Google (search, display, shopping, YouTube) from the Google Ads Transparency Center, by advertiser name, ID or domain, with formats, first and last shown dates, previews and optional per-country details.