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

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

## Changelog

### 1.0 (2026-10-13)

First release.

- Search by brand or advertiser name, domain, advertiser ID, or pasted Transparency Center links (advertiser pages, single ads, domain searches, political pages) with the link's own filters.
- Filters: region (all 240+ regions of the site), date presets or custom dates, format, platform, political ads with sort order.
- Ad rows with dates, format, regions, preview picture or script, and input context; free error and "no results" rows.
- Optional ad details: ad copy, variations, landing page, YouTube video, Shopping product, regions with dates, EU impressions per platform, audience targeting and topic.
- Search text ads shown only as pictures are read with OCR (Tesseract.js), with layout-aware fields, a confidence score and multi-language support.
- Optional advertiser profiles with ad counts; ad-check mode (profiles only).
- Monitoring mode: return only ads that earlier runs have not returned.
- Pay-per-event charging with spending-cap checks; state kept across migrations.
- Rate-limit handling: new IP and browser fingerprint per retry, automatic residential fallback.