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Google Ads Transparency Center Scraper & Ad Copy

This Google Ads Transparency Center scraper does two jobs. Ads: export every ad Google lists for a brand, a website, a keyword or a whole country, with the ad copy (headline, description, display URL, sitelinks), the format, the dates it was shown, the countries it ran in and its EU reach. Advertiser contacts: find the businesses that advertise on Google in a country or for a keyword, and get the email, phone number and social profiles from each advertiser's own website, plus how many ads it runs. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the Apify API.

What can this Google Ads scraper do?

• Search the way you think. Enter brands ("Nike"), websites ("nike.com") or advertiser IDs, or leave them empty and give a keyword ("dentist", "zahnarzt", "plumbing") or just a country: the Actor finds the advertisers for you.
• Read the ad copy. Google publishes many search ads only as pictures. The Actor reads those with OCR, so you get the headline and description as text. It also reads Maps and local service ads, and leaves out template ads that only show placeholders.
• Video, Shopping and display ads: the YouTube video ID, headline, call to action and landing page of video ads; the product title, shop and picture of Shopping ads.
• Dates and reach: first shown, last shown, days shown, whether the ad still runs, and (optional) every country with its own dates, EU impression ranges, targeting and who paid.
• Advertiser contacts: for each advertiser website, the best email address (its own domain first, never the web agency's or a regulator's), every other address on the site, phone numbers, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, YouTube and TikTok profiles, and the page the email came from.
• Only real advertisers. Every advertiser found by a keyword or scan has ads in the Transparency Center: the row shows how many, the last day one was shown and the accounts that pay for them. For a list of brands or websites, the row tells you whether each one advertises at all.
• Monitor a market. Give the run a monitor name and schedule it: ads are marked new, running or stopped; advertisers new or known. Turn on "Deliver only new results" to get, and pay for, only what earlier runs did not deliver.
• Honest run report. The REPORT record says, per search, what was found, what was skipped and why the search stopped.
• Hard limits. One "Max results" for the whole run, shared fairly between your searches; the run also stops at your maximum cost per run.

How to use it

1. Pick What to collect: Ads (one row per ad) or Advertiser contacts (one row per advertiser, with email).
2. Fill in one of these:
   • Brands, websites or advertiser IDs, one per line, for example hubspot.com;
   • or Find advertisers by keyword: words that appear in the advertisers' web addresses, in the language of the country (dentist, zahnarzt, plumber);
   • or nothing, and pick a country: the Actor scans the advertisers of that country.
3. Pick the countries and set Max results. Everything else is under Advanced options and can stay as it is.
4. Click Start. Results appear in the Output tab as they are found. Export them or connect the dataset to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or your own code.

Input

Field	Default	What it does
mode	ads	ads: one row per ad. contacts: one row per advertiser website, with email, phone and social profiles
queries	empty	Brands, websites, advertiser IDs or Transparency Center links
keywords	empty	Find the advertisers whose web address contains these words
regions	anywhere	ISO country codes, e.g. ["US", "DE"]. A scan without brands or keywords needs at least one
maxResults	100	Ads (or advertisers) for the whole run, shared evenly by the searches

Advanced options:

Field	Default	What it does
format / platform	all	Text, image or video ads / Search, YouTube, Shopping, Maps or Play. In contacts mode: only advertisers with such ads
dateFrom / dateTo	none	2026-10-01 or relative, like 30 days
maxAdsPerAdvertiser	0 (automatic)	Ads mode: most ads per brand and country, and per advertiser found by a keyword or scan
includeAdText	true	Ads mode: read the ad copy (no extra charge)
includeDetails	false	Ads mode: countries, EU reach, targeting and payer (extra event)
includeWithoutEmail	false	Contacts mode: also deliver advertisers whose website shows no email (cheaper event)
monitorName / onlyNew	off	Remember results between runs; deliver only new ones
maxAdvertisersPerQuery	5	Advertiser accounts kept for a brand name
maxConcurrency	6	Parallel connections

Proxies are chosen automatically: Google's search requests go through Apify residential proxies, previews, pictures and advertiser websites through cheaper routes. The traffic is included in the price.

Output: ads

A search ad whose copy Google only publishes as a picture (read with OCR), with details turned on, and a YouTube ad. Real rows from a test run, shortened:

[
  {
    "adId": "CR02306867169935228929",
    "advertiserName": "Hubspot, Inc.",
    "advertiserId": "AR10072600183532683265",
    "format": "text",
    "headline": "HubSpot Free CRM Software - Enhance Customer Experience",
    "headlines": ["HubSpot Free CRM Software", "Enhance Customer Experience"],
    "description": "Generate leads, close deals and create better customer experiences. Use AI-powered tools to streamline your work, align your teams and grow your business. Free To Start.",
    "displayUrl": "www.hubspot.com/products/crm",
    "businessName": "HubSpot",
    "sitelinks": ["Generate More Leads", "All-in-One Platform", "Get a Free HubSpot Demo", "HubSpot Smart CRM", "HubSpot Pricing"],
    "firstShown": "2024-04-08",
    "lastShown": "2026-11-12",
    "daysShown": 944,
    "isActive": true,
    "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR10072600183532683265/creative/CR02306867169935228929",
    "textSource": "ocr",
    "ocrConfidence": 95.8,
    "platforms": ["Google Search"],
    "regions": [
      { "code": "IE", "name": "Ireland", "firstShown": "2024-04-08", "lastShown": "2026-11-12", "impressionsMin": 6000, "impressionsMax": 7000 }
    ],
    "euImpressionsMin": 6000,
    "euImpressionsMax": 7000,
    "targeting": { "demographics": "included", "locations": "included", "contextualSignals": "included and excluded", "topicsOfInterest": "not used", "customerLists": "excluded" },
    "fundedBy": "Hubspot, Inc.",
    "query": "AR10072600183532683265",
    "matchedBy": "advertiser ID",
    "searchRegion": "anywhere"
  },
  {
    "adId": "CR14275481671309459457",
    "advertiserName": "Canva, Pty Ltd",
    "format": "video",
    "headline": "Free presentation templates",
    "description": "Choose from a variety of styles and themes, fit for any industry.",
    "callToAction": "Learn more",
    "youtubeVideoId": "tBcNLxUx4zI",
    "firstShown": "2026-09-07",
    "lastShown": "2026-11-12",
    "isActive": true,
    "textSource": "ad-preview",
    "query": "canva.com",
    "matchedBy": "domain"
  }
]

Output: advertiser contacts

One row per advertiser website. The shape of a row (the values are illustrative):

{
  "domain": "smile-dental.example",
  "website": "https://www.smile-dental.example/",
  "websiteTitle": "Smile Dental Studio",
  "email": "info@smile-dental.example",
  "emailMatchesWebsite": true,
  "emails": ["info@smile-dental.example", "jobs@smile-dental.example"],
  "phones": ["+1 512 555 0100"],
  "facebookUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/smiledental.example",
  "instagramUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/smiledental.example",
  "linkedinUrl": null,
  "contactPageUrl": "https://www.smile-dental.example/contact",
  "emailSourceUrl": "https://www.smile-dental.example/contact",
  "advertiserNames": ["Smile Dental Studio LLC"],
  "advertiserIds": ["AR00000000000000000000"],
  "adCountMin": 34,
  "adCountMax": 34,
  "lastAdShown": "2026-11-12",
  "isActive": true,
  "formats": ["image", "text"],
  "transparencyUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/?region=US&domain=smile-dental.example",
  "websiteError": null,
  "status": "new",
  "query": "dental",
  "matchedBy": "keyword",
  "searchRegion": "US"
}

How the email is chosen: an address on the website's own domain comes first, then an address of the same business on another domain, then a free-mail address (Gmail, GMX…) the business uses. Addresses of web agencies, site builders, chambers and regulators are never picked. Role addresses (info@, office@) beat personal and privacy mailboxes.

In our tests about half of the advertiser websites showed an email (48–68% for US plumbers and dentists and French plumbers) and 75–100% of German dentist websites did, since German sites must name a contact. By default only advertisers with an email are delivered, so you pay for leads you can use; turn on "Include advertisers without an email" to get the others too.

How much does it cost?

You pay per result, not for run time:

Event	Price
Ad delivered (with ad copy)	$2.00 per 1,000 ads
Ad details (countries, impressions, targeting)	$1.00 per 1,000 ads, only when turned on
Advertiser contact with an email	$10.00 per 1,000 advertisers
Advertiser without an email (only when asked for, or for a brand you listed)	$2.50 per 1,000 advertisers
Stopped-ad notices, known results skipped by a monitor, the run report	free

Example: 1,000 ads of a competitor with their ad copy cost $2.00. 500 advertisers with an email cost $5.00, however many websites had to be read to find them.

Monitor a competitor or a market

Set Monitor name (for example dentists-de) and schedule the Actor daily or weekly. In ads mode each ad gets a status: new the first time it is seen, running while it is still shown, stopped when Google no longer shows it. In contacts mode each advertiser is new or known. Turn on Deliver only new results to pay only for what you have not received yet.

Use it with the API, MCP and AI agents

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
// Every ad nike.com showed in Germany
const ads = await client.actor('mangop/google-ads-transparency-center-scraper').call({ queries: ['nike.com'], regions: ['DE'], maxResults: 200 });
// 100 dentists in Germany that advertise on Google, with their email
const leads = await client.actor('mangop/google-ads-transparency-center-scraper').call({ mode: 'contacts', keywords: ['zahnarzt'], regions: ['DE'], maxResults: 100 });
const { items } = await client.dataset(leads.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

AI agents can run it through the Apify MCP server, for example: "Find 50 plumbers in the US that advertise on Google and list their emails."

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape the Google Ads Transparency Center? The Actor reads only what Google publishes for anyone to see, without logging in. Ads are listed per advertiser (companies and verified organisations).

Can I email the advertisers I find? The contacts are what businesses publish on their own websites. How you may use them depends on where you and they are: in the EU and UK, GDPR and the ePrivacy rules apply to business email too (you need a legitimate interest or consent, must say who you are and must honour opt-outs); in the US, CAN-SPAM requires a real sender, a working unsubscribe and no misleading subject lines. Check your use with a lawyer if you are unsure.

How are advertisers found without a brand? Google suggests the websites that advertise in a country. The Actor asks for the websites that contain your keyword (or, in a scan, common business words and city names of that country), checks that each one has ads, and delivers them. Sites on the country's domain come first.

Why does an advertiser have no email? Some websites only have a contact form, show the address as an image, or block automated visits (websiteError says why). Those rows are left out unless you ask for them.

Why do some ads have no ad copy? Image ads are pictures without text fields: you get imageUrl. Text ads that Google publishes only as a picture are read with OCR (textSource: "ocr"). Template ads that show placeholders instead of the business's data, and ads that Google archived as an error page, are left without copy rather than guessed. When the ad's photo covers part of the text in Google's picture, the copy shows "…" for the hidden words.

What is {KeyWord:Water Heater Repair Near Me} in a headline? That is Google's keyword insertion, shown as the advertiser wrote it: people see their own search there, or the text after the colon when their search does not fit. In the same way, <dynamically generated location> stands for the searcher's town.

Can I get landing pages, keywords, clicks or spend? Landing pages: yes for video ads and product-feed display ads. For search ads Google shows only the display URL. Keywords, clicks and spend are not published by Google. Impression ranges exist only for ads shown in the EU.

A brand name found the wrong company. Exact names win and namesakes with very few ads are skipped; the REPORT lists every kept and skipped account. Use the website domain or the advertiser ID for exact results.

How fast is it? In our tests, 100 advertiser contacts took under 3 minutes (about two websites are read per contact delivered), and 100 ads with their copy under a minute. Google limits how fast one IP may ask, so the Actor paces requests, switches proxy IPs when blocked and tries blocked searches again.

Is this an official Google tool? No. This Actor is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Google. Google is a trademark of Google LLC.

Changelog

• 0.2 (November 2026): advertiser contacts (email, phone, social profiles) from the advertisers' websites; find advertisers by keyword or scan a whole country; a simpler form with the rarely used options under "Advanced options"; ad copy of Maps and local service ads.
• 0.1 (November 2026): first release.

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