Google Ads Transparency Scraper

Get every ad an advertiser or a website runs on Google Search, YouTube, Shopping, Maps and Play, straight from Google's Ads Transparency Center, to the very end of the list. Each search ends with a plain check: how many ads Google says exist, and how many you received.

Versión en español más abajo.

Quick facts

• What it does: Lists every ad an advertiser or a website runs on Google Search, YouTube, Shopping, Maps and Play, from Google's Ads Transparency Center, to the end of Google's list; optional details per ad.
• Use it for: competitor ad research and ad archives; how many ads an advertiser runs, where and since when; impression ranges where Google publishes them (mostly EU countries).
• Not for: ad spend, clicks or agencies (Google does not publish them); the words inside image ads (not read); monitoring "only new ads" or an advertiser-level summary (not in this version).
• Input: searches (required): advertiser names, websites, advertiser IDs (AR…) or adstransparency.google.com links. Optional: region, platform, format, shownFrom/shownTo (YYYY-MM-DD), maxAdsPerSearch (default 100, 0 = all), includeDetails (default off).
• Output: one dataset row per ad, and one SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store with "Google says N, delivered N" per search. Every field with its type is under Output reference below.
• Charged events (pay per event): ad USD 0.0015 per ad delivered (USD 1.50 per 1,000); ad-with-details USD 0.003 per ad delivered with details (USD 3.00 per 1,000; an ad whose details Google did not return is charged as ad); plus Apify's standard start event apify-actor-start.
• Never charged: searches as such (there is no fee per search), searches that find nothing or fail, duplicates, the SUMMARY record.
• Limits: stops at maxAdsPerSearch or at your maximum charge per run, and the SUMMARY says where (stoppedBy); Google's platform filter only covers ads shown since 2023-09-04.
• Run it from: Apify Console, the Apify API or an AI agent through the Apify MCP server (Actor pampadata/google-ads-transparency-scraper), with schedules and integrations.

Minimal input

A small input that works, taken from this Actor's own tests; every other field is optional:

{
  "searches": [
    "nike",
    "nike.com"
  ],
  "maxAdsPerSearch": 150
}

What you can search

One per line, mixed freely:

• An advertiser name: nike. The Actor picks the matching advertiser with the most ads (or the top 2–10, see Advertisers per name).
• A website: nike.com. Every ad that points to that site, from every advertiser.
• An advertiser ID: AR16735076323512287233.
• A link copied from adstransparency.google.com: an advertiser, ad or website page. The country, platform and format filters in the link are kept.

Filters: country where the ad was shown, platform, format (text, image, video) and a date range.

What you get for each ad

• Advertiser name and ID, ad ID, link to the ad's page
• Format, first and last time shown, number of days shown
• Image link and size, or the preview link for video and dynamic ads

With Include ad details turned on, you also get:

• Every variant of the ad (Google's "1 of 4")
• Topic (for example Apparel & Accessories)
• Each country where it was shown, with its own first and last date
• Impression ranges (for example 1,000–2,000), in total, per country and per platform, wherever Google publishes them. This is mostly the EU; elsewhere Google publishes none, and the fields are empty.
• Platforms (Search, YouTube, Shopping, Maps, Play)
• Audience selection: whether demographics and locations were targeted, included or excluded

Example (with details, trimmed)

{
  "adId": "CR04967699671523786753",
  "advertiserId": "AR16735076323512287233",
  "advertiserName": "Nike, Inc.",
  "format": "IMAGE",
  "firstShown": "2021-10-25T07:00:00Z",
  "lastShown": "2026-10-08T14:44:26Z",
  "daysShown": 1810,
  "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/creative/CR04967699671523786753",
  "variantCount": 3,
  "topic": "Apparel & Accessories",
  "impressionsMin": 1000,
  "impressionsMax": 2000,
  "platforms": ["GOOGLE_SHOPPING"],
  "countries": [{"country": "US", "countryName": "United States", "lastShown": "2026-10-08", "impressionsMin": null, "impressionsMax": null}],
  "audience": {"demographics": "included", "locations": "included"},
  "detailsError": null
}

The "Google says N, delivered N" check

The SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store lists every search with the advertiser found, the range of ads Google reports (for example 8,000–9,000), how many ads you got, whether the list was read to the end, and the reason if it stopped early (your Max ads per search, your spending limit, or an error). In a test on 2026-10-08, Nike, Inc. to the end returned 8,216 ads where Google said 8,000–9,000, with 0 errors.

Pricing

You pay only for ads delivered. There is no fee per search and nothing for an empty or failed search.

• Ad: USD 1.50 per 1,000 (USD 0.0015 each)
• Ad with details: USD 3.00 per 1,000 (USD 0.003 each). If Google returns no details for an ad, it is billed as a plain ad.
• Apify also bills its standard tiny start event (USD 0.00005 per run, per GB of memory).

The Actor stops cleanly at your maximum cost per run, and the SUMMARY record says where it stopped.

Rate limits and proxies

Google rate-limits heavy traffic. Leave the proxy setting as it is: the run starts on Apify's datacenter IPs, slows down when Google pushes back, and moves to residential IPs by itself if needed. That costs you nothing extra. If you choose your own proxy groups or proxies, they are used as given.

Good to know

• Google only applies the platform filter to ads shown since 4 September 2023.
• Many text ads are stored by Google as an archived image, not as text, so they come with an image link.
• Google does not publish ad agencies, spend or click counts, so no tool can return them.
• Google's counts change from day to day, so the same search can return slightly different numbers.

Is this legal?

The Actor reads only what Google publishes openly in its Ads Transparency Center, without logging in. The data is about ads and advertisers (mostly companies). Some advertisers are individuals, so if you store their names, data-protection law (for example the GDPR) may apply to you. This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Google. Google, YouTube and Google Ads are trademarks of Google LLC.

Questions or a missing feature?

Open an issue in the Issues tab. Answers come in writing.

Output reference

Dataset: one row per ad

Field	Type	What it is
adId	string	Google's ad (creative) ID, e.g. CR04967699671523786753.
advertiserId	string	Google's advertiser ID, e.g. AR16735076323512287233.
advertiserName	string	Advertiser name as Google shows it.
format	string	Ad format: TEXT, IMAGE or VIDEO.
firstShown	string	First time the ad was shown (ISO 8601, UTC).
lastShown	string	Last time the ad was shown (ISO 8601, UTC).
daysShown	integer	Number of days the ad was shown, as Google counts it.
adUrl	string	Link to the ad's page in the Ads Transparency Center (with ?region= when a country filter is set).
previewUrl	string or null	Preview link for video and dynamic ads; null for plain image ads.
imageUrl	string or null	Image link (many text ads are stored by Google as an image).
imageWidth	integer or null	Image width in pixels.
imageHeight	integer or null	Image height in pixels.
search	string	The input line this ad came from.
variants	array of string	Only with includeDetails: image or preview link of every variant (Google's "1 of N").
variantCount	integer	Only with includeDetails: number of variants.
topic	string or null	Only with includeDetails: topic, e.g. Apparel & Accessories.
impressionsMin	integer or null	Only with includeDetails: lower end of the total impression range; null where Google publishes none (outside the EU, mostly).
impressionsMax	integer or null	Only with includeDetails: upper end of the total impression range.
platforms	array of string	Only with includeDetails: GOOGLE_SEARCH, YOUTUBE, GOOGLE_SHOPPING, GOOGLE_MAPS, GOOGLE_PLAY.
countries	array of object	Only with includeDetails: one item per country shown: country (ISO code), countryName, firstShown and lastShown (YYYY-MM-DD; firstShown can be null), impressionsMin, impressionsMax, platforms (platform, impressionsMin, impressionsMax).
audience	object or null	Only with includeDetails: demographics and locations targeting, each "included", "excluded" or "included and excluded".
detailsError	string or null	Only with includeDetails: null when the details came; the error text when Google returned none (that row is charged as ad).

SUMMARY record (run's key-value store, never charged)

Field	Type	What it is
searches	array of object	One item per search (fields below).
adsDelivered	integer	Ads delivered in the run.
requests	object	Request counters of the run (requests, retries, refusals or blocks, failures; whether the run moved to residential IPs).
proxy	string	Proxy mode of the run ("datacenter" moving to residential if rate-limited, or "as configured").

Each item of searches:

Field	Type	What it is
input	string	Your input line.
searched	string	Advertiser name, website or ID actually searched.
kind	string	What the input was read as (advertiser name, website, advertiser ID, ad link…).
region, platform, format	string	Filters used for this search ("anywhere" / "ALL" when none).
googleSaysMin, googleSaysMax	integer or null	The range of ads Google reports for the search.
delivered	integer	Ads delivered (and charged) for this search.
duplicatesSkipped	integer	Ads already delivered by another search of the run (not charged again).
detailsFailed	integer	With includeDetails: ads whose details Google did not return.
complete	boolean	true when the list was read to its end.
stoppedBy	string or null	Why it stopped early: maxAdsPerSearch, your maximum charge per run, or an error.
error	string	Only on searches that could not run (e.g. no advertiser for that name).

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Versión en español

Todos los anuncios que un anunciante o un sitio web muestra en Google Search, YouTube, Shopping, Maps y Play, tomados del Centro de Transparencia de Anuncios de Google, hasta el final de la lista. Cada búsqueda termina con un control simple: cuántos anuncios dice Google que hay y cuántos recibiste.

De un vistazo

• Qué hace: Lista todos los anuncios que un anunciante o un sitio web muestra en Google Search, YouTube, Shopping, Maps y Play, del Centro de Transparencia de Anuncios de Google, hasta el final de la lista; detalles opcionales por anuncio.
• Sirve para: investigar anuncios de la competencia y archivarlos; cuántos anuncios tiene un anunciante, dónde y desde cuándo; rangos de impresiones donde Google los publica (sobre todo la UE).
• No sirve para: gasto, clics o agencias (Google no los publica); el texto dentro de anuncios de imagen (no se lee); monitoreo de "solo anuncios nuevos" o resumen por anunciante (no están en esta versión).
• Entrada: searches (obligatorio): nombres, sitios web, IDs de anunciante (AR…) o enlaces de adstransparency.google.com. Opcionales: region, platform, format, shownFrom/shownTo, maxAdsPerSearch (100 por defecto, 0 = todos), includeDetails (apagado por defecto). Ejemplo mínimo en JSON: sección Minimal input de la parte en inglés.
• Salida: una fila por anuncio y un registro SUMMARY con "Google dice N, entregados N" por búsqueda.
• Eventos que se cobran: ad USD 0,0015 por anuncio (USD 1,50 cada 1.000); ad-with-details USD 0,003 por anuncio con detalles (USD 3,00 cada 1.000; sin detalles de Google se cobra como ad); más el evento de inicio estándar de Apify apify-actor-start.
• Nunca se cobra: las búsquedas en sí (no hay cargo por búsqueda), búsquedas vacías o fallidas, repetidos, el registro SUMMARY.
• Límites: se detiene en maxAdsPerSearch o en tu costo máximo por corrida, y SUMMARY dice dónde (stoppedBy).

Qué podés buscar

Uno por línea, mezclados:

• Nombre de anunciante: nike. Toma el anunciante que coincide y tiene más anuncios (o los primeros 2 a 10, con Advertisers per name).
• Sitio web: nike.com. Todos los anuncios que llevan a ese sitio, de todos los anunciantes.
• ID de anunciante: AR16735076323512287233.
• Un enlace copiado de adstransparency.google.com (anunciante, anuncio o sitio). Se respetan los filtros de país, plataforma y formato del enlace.

Filtros: país donde se mostró, plataforma, formato (texto, imagen, video) y rango de fechas.

Qué recibís

Por cada anuncio: anunciante e ID, ID y enlace del anuncio, formato, primera y última vez que se mostró, días mostrado, e imagen o vista previa. Con Include ad details además: todas las variantes, tema, cada país con sus propias fechas, rangos de impresiones (total, por país y por plataforma) donde Google los publica (sobre todo la Unión Europea), plataformas y segmentación de audiencia.

El registro SUMMARY dice, por cada búsqueda, cuántos anuncios informa Google, cuántos recibiste, si se leyó hasta el final y, si se cortó antes, por qué.

Precio

Pagás solo por anuncio entregado; nada por búsqueda ni por búsquedas vacías o fallidas.

• Anuncio: USD 1,50 cada 1.000
• Anuncio con detalles: USD 3,00 cada 1.000 (si Google no devuelve detalles, se cobra como anuncio común)
• Más el evento de inicio estándar de Apify (USD 0,00005 por corrida, por GB de memoria).

El programa se detiene en tu costo máximo por corrida y lo informa en SUMMARY.

Bueno saber

Dejá el proxy como viene: si Google limita las IPs de centro de datos, la corrida pasa sola a IPs residenciales, sin costo extra para vos. Google no publica agencias, gasto ni clics. El filtro de plataforma solo vale para anuncios mostrados desde el 4 de septiembre de 2023. Este programa no está afiliado a Google ni cuenta con su respaldo.

¿Dudas o algo que falta? Abrí un issue en la pestaña Issues; se responde por escrito.