Google Ads Transparency Scraper — Competitor Ads, Text & Videos

What does Google Ads Transparency Scraper do?

It pulls every ad your competitors run on Google, including Search, YouTube, Shopping, Display, Maps and Play, from the official Google Ads Transparency Center. You don't need a login or an API key.

Unlike basic scrapers that only return a preview link, this Actor opens each ad and extracts what's inside:

• ✍️ Ad copy: headlines, descriptions and call-to-action text
• 🎬 YouTube video links for video ads
• 🖼️ Image URLs for image and display ads
• 🔗 Landing pages: where the ad sends people (website, App Store, Play Store)
• 🌍 Countries where the ad ran, with the last date shown in each
• 📅 First shown, last shown and days running: long-running ads are usually the winners
• 💳 Paid by: the agency or company paying for the ads

Use cases

• Competitor ad research: see every creative a competitor has tested and which ones they keep running
• Ad creative inspiration: collect proven ad copy and video ads in your niche
• Agency prospecting: find brands advertising in a country and see who manages their ads
• Brand monitoring: detect resellers or impostors running ads with your brand
• Market research: track ad activity by country and format

How to use it

1. Add brands, domains or advertiser IDs to Advertisers or domains:
   • nike.com: all ads that lead to this domain, from every advertiser account (most complete)
   • Nike: the brand's verified advertiser account
   • AR06641858037806006273 or an Ads Transparency URL
2. Optionally pick a country (US, GB, DE, BR, MX…) and format (text, image, video).
3. Run it and download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or via API.

Input example

{
  "queries": ["nike.com", "adidas.com"],
  "region": "US",
  "adFormat": "video",
  "maxAdsPerQuery": 200,
  "includeAdDetails": true
}

Output example

{
  "advertiserId": "AR18378488041124659201",
  "advertiserName": "Nike Retail BV",
  "creativeId": "CR02364365752552652801",
  "format": "TEXT",
  "firstShown": "2021-10-25T07:00:00+00:00",
  "lastShown": "2026-10-16T07:56:41+00:00",
  "daysShown": 1777,
  "domain": "nike.com",
  "imageUrl": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/4832233884008604101",
  "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR18378488041124659201/creative/CR02364365752552652801?region=US",
  "regions": [
    {
      "country": "DK",
      "lastShownDate": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "country": "MA",
      "lastShownDate": "2026-10-15"
    },
    {
      "country": "SE",
      "lastShownDate": "2026-10-14"
    },
    {
      "...": "37 more countries"
    }
  ],
  "paidBy": "Nike Retail BV",
  "adTexts": [
    "Sponsored",
    "nike.com",
    "Nike - Online Store",
    "<Rating (Reviews)> · <Distance> · København",
    "<Open Hours>",
    "Copenhagen",
    "Any Place. Any Time. Any Condition. Be Your Best Every Time With Nike Shoes And Clothing.",
    "website",
    "call",
    "directions"
  ],
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/4832233884008604101"
  ],
  "variantsCount": 2
}

Pricing

You pay per ad and nothing else.

| Result | Price per ad | |

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---| | Ad (basic: format, dates, image, link) | $0.001 | | Ad with full details (text, video, landing page, countries, payer) | $0.003 |

🆓 On Apify's Free plan you can try it practically free (about $0.01 per 1,000 results). The prices above apply to paid plans.

For example, 1,000 competitor ads with full copy and videos cost $3.

Tips

• Google archives many text ads as screenshots: for those, the copy is inside imageUrls and adTexts may be empty.
• Search by domain to catch every advertiser account a brand uses. Big brands have one per country.
• Days shown is the best proxy for ad performance. Advertisers don't keep paying for losing ads.
• Set Max total ads to cap your spend.

Is it legal?

The Google Ads Transparency Center is a public database that Google publishes so anyone can see who is advertising. This Actor only reads that public data.

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