Google Ads Transparency Scraper: SpyFu Alternative, No Login

A pay-per-result alternative to SpyFu-style competitor ad research, straight from the Google Ads Transparency Center, Google's own public ad library: $1 per 1,000 ads, no login, no subscription.

Google Ads Transparency scraper use cases

• See every ad a competitor runs on Google Search, YouTube and Display right now, and since when.
• Catch the day a brand starts or stops a campaign.
• Collect a competitor's YouTube and image ads for creative research.
• See which countries an advertiser targets.

What you get for each Google ad

Get the ads a competitor runs on Google Search, YouTube and Display, up to all of them, straight from the Google Ads Transparency Center, Google's public ad library. Type a company name, a website or an advertiser ID. For each ad you get the format, the first and last day it was shown, a preview, the link to the ad on Google's site and, if you want, the countries it ran in. It's a Google ads scraper with no login and no API key, at $1 per 1,000 ads. It stops at 100 ads per advertiser unless you raise that. It works for people and for AI agents through Apify's MCP server.

Input

Field	What to put
Advertisers	One per line. A name (Nike, Inc.), a website (nike.com) or an advertiser ID (AR16735076323512287233).
Country	A two-letter code like US or GB to list only ads shown there, or anywhere.
Ad format	All, text, image or video.
Max ads per advertiser	Where to stop for each line. Big brands have thousands. Default 100.
Add the countries each ad ran in	Off by default. Looks up each ad's own page for its countries.
Proxy	Apify Proxy, on by default.

How each line is read:

• Advertiser ID (starts with AR): that advertiser's ads.
• Website: the ads that point to that site, from every account that runs them. Big brands often advertise from more than one account. For nike.com that includes Nike, Inc. and Nike Retail BV. The advertiser row for a website lists every account found, with how many of the returned ads each ran. A site that hosts other people's pages, like notion.so, also brings back ads from anyone who links there.
• Name: the Transparency Center's own search. The Actor picks the advertiser whose name matches exactly, with the most ads, and lists up to 5 other matches so you can pick one by ID next time. If no name matches exactly, it takes the Transparency Center's first suggestion, which can be a different company, and the advertiser row says "exactMatch": false. Check advertiserName there, or use an advertiser ID.

Example:

{
  "advertisers": ["nike.com", "Adidas AG", "AR16735076323512287233"],
  "region": "US",
  "adFormat": "all",
  "maxAdsPerAdvertiser": 200,
  "includeRegionDetails": false
}

Output

The rows below came out of this Actor's own code, run on Google pages saved on October 14, 2026.

One row per ad. Here are two ads for nike.com with country details on, from two different Nike accounts:

{
  "query": "nike.com",
  "type": "ad",
  "advertiserId": "AR16735076323512287233",
  "advertiserName": "Nike, Inc.",
  "adId": "CR01365936386246443009",
  "format": "text",
  "targetDomain": "nike.com",
  "firstShown": "2023-11-17T01:35:07.000Z",
  "lastShown": "2026-10-14T17:13:42.000Z",
  "previewImageUrl": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/18315675656631725550",
  "previewScriptUrl": null,
  "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/creative/CR01365936386246443009",
  "regions": [{ "code": "US", "name": "United States", "lastShown": "2026-09-01" }]
}

{
  "query": "nike.com",
  "type": "ad",
  "advertiserId": "AR18378488041124659201",
  "advertiserName": "Nike Retail BV",
  "adId": "CR07168715242145316865",
  "format": "image",
  "targetDomain": "nike.com",
  "firstShown": "2021-10-25T07:00:00.000Z",
  "lastShown": "2026-10-14T17:04:33.000Z",
  "previewImageUrl": null,
  "previewScriptUrl": "https://displayads-formats.googleusercontent.com/ads/preview/content.js?client=ads-integrity-transparency&obfuscatedCustomerId=6919916581&creativeId=453317343041&...",
  "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR18378488041124659201/creative/CR07168715242145316865",
  "regions": [{ "code": "GB", "name": "United Kingdom", "lastShown": "2026-10-14" }]
}

And a YouTube video ad, by advertiser ID, with country details off:

{
  "query": "AR16735076323512287233",
  "type": "ad",
  "advertiserId": "AR16735076323512287233",
  "advertiserName": "Nike, Inc.",
  "adId": "CR10652972250883424257",
  "format": "video",
  "targetDomain": null,
  "firstShown": "2026-07-07T14:04:49.000Z",
  "lastShown": "2026-10-14T14:27:21.000Z",
  "previewImageUrl": null,
  "previewScriptUrl": "https://displayads-formats.googleusercontent.com/ads/preview/content.js?client=ads-integrity-transparency&obfuscatedCustomerId=1287649103&creativeId=807123584309&...",
  "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/creative/CR10652972250883424257"
}

• previewImageUrl is a picture of the ad. Google shows text ads as pictures too.
• Video and some image ads have no picture. They have previewScriptUrl, the script Google uses to draw the ad, and you can watch or view the ad itself on its adUrl page.
• regions is only there when you turn on country details.
• With a country set, adUrl ends in ?region= and that code.
• An ad's lastShown and each country's lastShown come from different Google records and can disagree, as in the first sample. Both are Google's own.
• If one ad's country lookup fails, its regions is null, the row has a detailsError, and that ad isn't charged for country details.
• Ad dates are in UTC. A country's lastShown is a plain date.

Then one row per advertiser line. This one is for the name Nike, Inc. in the US:

{
  "type": "advertiser",
  "query": "Nike, Inc.",
  "matchedBy": "name",
  "advertiserId": "AR16735076323512287233",
  "advertiserName": "Nike, Inc.",
  "exactMatch": true,
  "adCountRange": { "min": 7000, "max": 8000 },
  "adsReturned": 100,
  "error": null,
  "failed": false,
  "alternatives": [
    { "id": "AR06641858037806006273", "name": "Nike", "country": "KE", "adCount": 1 },
    { "id": "AR17365672681860497409", "name": "NIKE SRL", "country": "IT", "adCount": 8 }
  ]
}

adCountRange is Google's own estimate of how many ads match. It gives a range, not an exact number. alternatives lists up to 5 other advertisers with a similar name (2 shown here). The same list is saved as the ADVERTISERS record in the run's key-value store.

When a line brings back no ads, error says why. With "failed": false it means Google has no ads for it with your filters. With "failed": true the lookup itself broke, for example because Google blocked the request, and running it again may work.

Price

• $1.00 per 1,000 ads.
• Country details: $1.00 per 1,000 ads more, only if you turn them on.
• The advertiser rows are free.

Good to know

• Google limits how fast anyone can read this site, and it blocks an IP that asks too fast. The Actor waits at least 1.5 seconds between requests. That means at least 15 seconds per 1,000 ads, plus about 1.5 seconds per ad for country details. If Google still asks for a captcha, the Actor retries on a fresh proxy IP. With the proxy turned off, it stops with a clear message instead of retrying.
• A worked example: all 8,000 or so Nike ads take about 2 minutes and cost about $8. With country details, add about 3.3 hours and $8 more, because each ad needs its own lookup.
• You can set a maximum charge for a run. The Actor stops when it's reached and keeps what it already saved.
• Text ads are only available as pictures, so their words are not in the data.
• The dates and counts are Google's own.
• This Actor isn't made by Google or connected to it. It reads the same public pages anyone can open.

Use it from an AI agent

The Actor works through Apify's MCP server like any Store Actor. An agent can find it, read its input and call it. Only advertisers is required. A run of a few hundred ads finishes within the MCP call's wait. Runs with country details or thousands of ads take longer, so the agent reads the rows afterwards with get-dataset-items, using the dataset ID the call returns.

FAQ

How do I see a competitor's Google ads? Type their company name, website or advertiser ID. You get every ad Google's public ad library lists for them, on Search, YouTube and Display.

Can I see YouTube ads too? Yes. YouTube ads come back with their format, first and last day shown, and a preview link.

Can I see which countries an ad ran in? Turn on "Add the countries each ad ran in". It's off by default because it reads each ad's own page.

Do I need a Google account or API key? No. It reads Google's public ad library with no login.

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