Google Ads Transparency Scraper: Every Ad by Site

Get every ad the Google Ads Transparency Center lists for a website, an advertiser or a brand name, read to the last page, in any of 216 regions, with its format, the days it was first and last shown, how long it ran, its image or preview, and Google's own ids for it. One row per ad. No Google account or cookies needed.

Tested daily. Latest check: 100 nike.com ads shown in the United States in 6 seconds; 10,591 ads from three searches in 5 minutes, one advertiser read to the end of its 591 ads in Germany.

What does this Actor do?

You give it websites, advertiser ids, advertiser names or Transparency Center links. For each one it reads the ads the Transparency Center lists, 100 at a time, and saves one row per ad until it reaches your limit or the list ends.

Each ad comes with:

• its creative id and its advertiser: id, name, and the website it points to
• its format: text, image or video
• when it was first shown and last shown, and how many days it ran
• its picture (with width and height) when the Center shows one, or the link to its preview
• Google's ids for it: the creative, the customer account, the ad group and the version, when the Center gives them
• links to the ad and to the advertiser on the Transparency Center
• for a name search: the advertiser's country and how many ads Google says it has
• the search it was found in, and how many ads Google says that search matches

Why use it?

• Every ad, not the first page. A search is read page after page to the end of what the Center lists, up to 50,000 ads a search.
• Three ways in. A website finds every advertiser that ran ads for it; an advertiser id reads one advertiser; a name finds the advertisers with the most ads under it.
• 216 regions, platform, format and dates. The same filters the Transparency Center offers, for every search in the run.
• Google's ids on every row. Creative, customer, ad group and version ids, ready to join with your own records.
• Use the data anywhere. Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send it to your own tools through Apify's API and integrations.

How to use it

1. Type one or more Websites, Advertiser ids or Advertiser names, or paste Transparency Center links, or mix them.
2. Optionally, pick a Region, a Platform, an Ad format, a date range (Shown from, Shown until) and Max ads per search.
3. Click Start. When the run ends, open the Output tab to view the ads or download them.

Run it with no input to see a sample: up to 100 ads for nike.com shown in the United States, charged as usual.

Links that work

An advertiser page, such as https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233?region=US, or a website search, such as https://adstransparency.google.com/?region=US&domain=nike.com. The link's region is used; platform, format and dates come from the form. A single ad's page and other links stop the run before anything is read, naming the link.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
Websites (domains)	Websites whose ads you want, one search each	—
Advertiser ids (advertiserIds)	Advertiser ids, AR and 20 digits, one search each	—
Advertiser names (advertiserNames)	Names to look up, one search each	—
Transparency Center links (startUrls)	Advertiser pages or website searches	—
Region (region)	anywhere, or a country code (US, GB, DE…) from the 216 the Center offers	anywhere
Platform (platform)	any, SEARCH, YOUTUBE, SHOPPING, MAPS, PLAY	any
Ad format (adFormat)	any, TEXT, IMAGE, VIDEO	any
Shown from (startDate)	Only ads shown on or after this day, YYYY-MM-DD	—
Shown until (endDate)	Only ads shown on or before this day, YYYY-MM-DD	—
Max ads per search (maxAdsPerSearch)	Stop each search after this many ads, 1 to 50,000	100
Max advertisers per name (maxAdvertisersPerName)	For a name, how many matching advertisers to read, most ads first, 1 to 10	1

Give at least one website, id, name or link. Example input:

{
  "domains": ["nike.com", "adidas.com"],
  "advertiserNames": ["Supercell"],
  "region": "US",
  "adFormat": "VIDEO",
  "startDate": "2026-09-01",
  "endDate": "2026-09-30",
  "maxAdsPerSearch": 2000
}

Output

One row per ad. An example, with made-up values:

{
  "creative_id": "CR01234567890123456789",
  "advertiser_id": "AR01234567890123456789",
  "advertiser_name": "Example Brand, Inc.",
  "domain": "example.com",
  "format": "IMAGE",
  "first_shown": "2025-11-16T22:35:09.000Z",
  "last_shown": "2026-10-20T04:11:47.000Z",
  "days_shown": 339,
  "image_url": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/1234567890",
  "image_width": 348,
  "image_height": 247,
  "preview_url": null,
  "google_creative_id": null,
  "google_customer_id": null,
  "ad_group_id": null,
  "version_id": null,
  "ad_url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR01234567890123456789/creative/CR01234567890123456789?region=US",
  "advertiser_url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR01234567890123456789?region=US",
  "advertiser_country": null,
  "advertiser_ads_count_low": null,
  "advertiser_ads_count_high": null,
  "search_ads_count_low": 8000,
  "search_ads_count_high": 9000,
  "search_type": "domain",
  "search_query": "example.com",
  "search_region": "US",
  "search_platform": null,
  "search_format": null,
  "search_start_date": null,
  "search_end_date": null
}

Field	What it holds
creative_id	The ad's id on the Transparency Center
advertiser_id	The advertiser's id
advertiser_name	The advertiser's name
domain	The website the ad points to, when the Center shows one
format	TEXT, IMAGE or VIDEO
first_shown	When the ad was first shown
last_shown	When it was last shown
days_shown	How many days it ran
image_url	The ad's picture, when the Center shows one
image_width, image_height	Its size in pixels
preview_url	The link the Center renders the ad from, when it has no picture
google_creative_id, google_customer_id	Google's own ids for the ad and the advertiser's account, from the preview link
ad_group_id	The ad group, when the preview link names it
version_id	The ad's version, when the preview link names it
ad_url	The ad on the Transparency Center
advertiser_url	The advertiser's page on the Transparency Center
advertiser_country	The advertiser's country (name searches)
advertiser_ads_count_low, advertiser_ads_count_high	How many ads Google says the advertiser has, as its rounded range (name searches)
search_ads_count_low, search_ads_count_high	How many ads Google says the search matches, as its rounded range
search_type	domain, advertiser or name
search_query	The website, id or name searched
search_region	The region searched; empty for anywhere
search_platform	The platform searched; empty for any
search_format	The format searched; empty for any
search_start_date, search_end_date	The date range searched; empty for any time

Image ads and many text ads have a picture; the rest have a preview link, which carries Google's ids. domain is empty for ads that point to no website, such as app and video ads.

How much does it cost?

No surcharges and no paid options; an item that fails is not charged.

You pay for what you get:

• $1 per 1,000 ads ($0.001 an ad). Each ad is charged once per run, even when two of your searches find it.
• No start fee, and nothing per search.

So 5,000 ads cost $5. If you set a maximum cost for a run, the Actor stops when it reaches it and keeps every ad saved so far.

How long does a run take?

About 100 ads in 6 seconds; 10,591 ads from three searches in about 5 minutes, 5,000 of them from one search.

Good to know

• Google decides what matches. A website search finds every advertiser that ran ads pointing to it, and a name finds the advertisers whose name matches, as the Transparency Center does.
• Counts are Google's ranges. The Center gives ad counts rounded, such as 8,000 to 9,000, so they are kept as a low and a high.
• Ad text and per-region details are not included yet. Rows carry the picture or preview link, not the words of a text ad, and not the regions, reach or audience the Center shows on an ad's own page.
• One ad, one row. An ad found again in the same run, under the same or another search, is saved and charged once.
• A search that cannot be read is reported in the run's status; the other searches carry on.

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Use it from an AI agent or the API

One call starts a run and returns its items (Apify waits up to 300 seconds; for a longer run, start it with POST /v2/acts/…/runs and read its dataset):

POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/luzivanlt~google-ads-transparency-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>

With the sample input as its JSON body:

{
  "domains": ["nike.com"],
  "region": "US",
  "platform": "any",
  "adFormat": "any",
  "maxAdsPerSearch": 100,
  "maxAdvertisersPerName": 1
}

Its inputs, in the order of the input form:

Input	What it takes	Default
domains (Websites)	Websites whose ads you want, as the Transparency Center searches them: every advertiser that ran ads for the site and its subdomains (e.g. "nike.com").	—
advertiserIds (Advertiser ids)	Advertiser ids from the Transparency Center, AR and 20 digits, as in an advertiser page link (e.g. "AR16735076323512287233").	—
advertiserNames (Advertiser names)	Names to look up, as you would type them in the Transparency Center search box (e.g. "Nike").	—
startUrls (Transparency Center links)	Links copied from adstransparency.google.com: an advertiser page (e.g. https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233?region=US) or a website search (https://adstransparency.google.com/?region=US&domain=nike.com).	—
region (Region)	Only ads shown in this country, from the 216 regions the Transparency Center offers.	"anywhere"
platform (Platform)	Only ads shown on this Google platform: Search, YouTube, Shopping, Maps or Play.	"any"
adFormat (Ad format)	Only ads of this format: text, image or video.	"any"
startDate (Shown from)	Only ads shown on or after this day, as YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. 2026-09-01).	—
endDate (Shown until)	Only ads shown on or before this day, as YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. 2026-09-30).	—
maxAdsPerSearch (Max ads per search)	Stop each website, id, name or link after this many ads, from 1 to 50,000.	100
maxAdvertisersPerName (Max advertisers per name)	For each name, how many matching advertisers to read, those with the most ads first, from 1 to 10.	1

Apify's MCP server, https://mcp.apify.com, lists it as luzivanlt/google-ads-transparency-scraper. To give an AI agent this Actor as a tool, add the server to the agent's MCP config:

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

The client signs in with OAuth, or add "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>" }.

Charged per ad delivered; the sample input above costs at most $0.10.

FAQ

Do I need a Google account? No.

Can I get ads shown in one country only? Yes: pick it as the Region. The ad and advertiser links on each row open in that region.

Can I watch an advertiser over time? Yes: schedule the Actor daily with a Shown from date, and remove repeats by creative_id.

Is it legal to scrape the Ads Transparency Center?

The Transparency Center is a public site that Google built so anyone can see who runs ads. This Actor reads only what it shows to every visitor. You are responsible for how you use the data; check the terms of the site and the laws that apply to you.

Support

Found a problem or need a field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab and we will look at it.