Google Ads Transparency Scraper — Competitor Ads & Creatives

Pull any advertiser's live ads from the Google Ads Transparency Center into clean, structured JSON/CSV — searchable by advertiser, domain, or keyword, and filterable by region, date, and ad format. Built for competitor ad research, creative inspiration, ad monitoring, and market analysis across Google Search, Shopping, Display & YouTube.

Streams results live. Ads are written to your dataset as they're found, page by page — you never wait until the end of the run to see data, and an interrupted run still keeps everything collected so far. Reliable completion with automatic retries and IP rotation.

What you get per ad

Field	Description
advertiserName	The advertiser (company / organisation)
advertiserId	Stable Google advertiser ID (AR...)
creativeId	Unique creative ID (CR...)
adFormat	text, image, or video
firstShown / lastShown	When the ad's active window starts / ends (ISO 8601 UTC)
previewUrl	Direct URL to the rendered creative (image/video ads)
adLibraryUrl	Deep link back to the ad on Google's Transparency Center
region	Region the results were scoped to
matchedQuery / searchMode	The query and mode that produced the row

All data is company / advertiser-level only — no personal data is collected (PDPA/GDPR-friendly by design).

Three ways to search (set searchMode)

1. domain (default) — free-text / brand-domain search. Best for a brand or site, e.g. ["nike.com", "shopify.com"].
2. keyword — give a keyword; the actor resolves the matching advertisers (and domains) and pulls their ads, e.g. ["running shoes"]. Tune breadth with maxAdvertisersPerKeyword.
3. advertiser — give exact advertiser IDs (AR...) to get every ad for that advertiser, e.g. ["AR16735076323512287233"].

Filters

• region — country name or code (US, United Kingdom, DE, …) or anywhere for global. Unknown values safely fall back to global (never a wrong-country result).
• dateFrom / dateTo — YYYY-MM-DD; keeps ads whose active window overlaps your range.
• adFormats — any of text, image, video.
• maxResults — cap total creatives (0 = unlimited).

Example input

{
  "searchMode": "domain",
  "queries": ["nike.com"],
  "region": "US",
  "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
  "adFormats": ["image", "video"],
  "maxResults": 1000
}

Example output (one record)

{
  "advertiserName": "Nike, Inc.",
  "advertiserId": "AR16735076323512287233",
  "creativeId": "CR03002423070389436417",
  "adFormat": "image",
  "firstShown": "2021-10-26T07:00:00.000Z",
  "lastShown": "2026-05-24T23:54:27.000Z",
  "previewUrl": "https://displayads-formats.googleusercontent.com/ads/preview/content.js?...",
  "adLibraryUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/creative/CR03002423070389436417",
  "region": "US",
  "matchedQuery": "nike.com",
  "searchMode": "domain",
  "source": "adstransparency.google.com"
}

Why this actor

• Incremental streaming — see results immediately; no "0 results until it finishes".
• Reliable completion — automatic retries with backoff and proxy IP rotation, so long advertiser runs (hundreds of pages) finish cleanly.
• All three search angles — advertiser, domain, and keyword in one actor.
• Clean, consistent schema — every row has the same flat fields, ready for CRM, BI, or LLM pipelines (JSON, CSV, Excel).
• Company-level only — safe to use, no personal data.

Pricing

Pay per result (per ad creative returned). No subscription — you only pay for the data you pull.

Notes & limits

• Only ads currently surfaced by Google's public Ads Transparency Center are returned (Google shows ads active within roughly the last year for most regions; political/election ads have longer retention).
• keyword mode depends on Google's own advertiser/domain suggestions for that keyword; very generic terms may resolve to fewer advertisers — for exhaustive coverage of a known brand, use domain or advertiser mode.
• Use responsibly and in line with Google's terms. This actor reads only public, advertiser-level transparency data.