Google Ads Transparency Scraper

See every ad a competitor runs on Google Search, YouTube, Display and more. The data comes from Google's own Ads Transparency Center, Google's ads library. Give advertisers any of these ways:

• Name, for example Nike, Inc.. The actor picks the matching advertiser.
• Advertiser ID (AR…) or a Transparency Center URL.
• Website, for example hubspot.com, for every ad that links to it, from all advertisers.

Every ad comes with its advertiser, its format (text, image or video), the first and last dates it was shown, the ad's image, the YouTube URL for video ads, and a link to the ad on the Transparency Center.

You can filter by country, by format, and by the dates an ad was shown. It needs no browser, and it is fast: 300 ads from three advertisers, with the YouTube URLs of 44 video ads, took 15 seconds. It costs $1 per 1,000 ads.

What people use it for

• Competitor research: what competitors advertise, in which formats, and since when.
• Creative inspiration: long-running ads are the ones that work.
• Agencies and lead generation: find businesses that spend on Google Ads, and see what they run.
• Brand protection: ads that link to your domain, from any advertiser.

How to scrape the Google Ads Transparency Center

1. Click Try for free; Apify's free plan covers a first run.
2. Enter Advertisers, as a website (hubspot.com) or a name, and pick a country if you want.
3. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the API.

An input with more options:

{
  "advertisers": ["hubspot.com", "Nike, Inc.", "AR16735076323512287233"],
  "region": "US",
  "format": "video",
  "shownFrom": "2026-06-01",
  "maxAdsPerAdvertiser": 200
}

Output

{
  "advertiserId": "AR10072600183532683265",
  "advertiserName": "Hubspot, Inc.",
  "adId": "CR15036202842803142657",
  "format": "video",
  "firstShown": "2026-06-29T21:05:22+00:00",
  "lastShown": "2026-09-26T09:13:50+00:00",
  "imageUrl": null,
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ26TwqroAk",
  "previewUrl": "https://displayads-formats.googleusercontent.com/ads/preview/content.js?…",
  "url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR10072600183532683265/creative/CR15036202842803142657?region=US",
  "query": "hubspot.com"
}

Text ads come as imageUrl, a picture of the ad as Google shows it. Image ads have imageUrl, or previewUrl when Google renders them with a script.

Use it as an API

One call runs it and returns the results as JSON (for runs under 5 minutes; longer ones start a run and read its dataset). Apify's Python and JavaScript clients, and its Make, Zapier and n8n integrations, work the same way.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/pikoulas~google-ads-transparency/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"advertisers": ["hubspot.com", "Nike, Inc."], "region": "US", "maxAdsPerAdvertiser": 20}'

AI agents can call it as a tool through Apify's MCP server: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=pikoulas/google-ads-transparency.

How much does it cost to scrape the Google Ads Transparency Center?

You pay $0.001 per ad, which is $1 per 1,000. Runs that go through Apify's residential proxy also pay its traffic, $0.0012 per 100 KB. There are no monthly fees.

Good to know

• Ads come most recently shown first.
• Google keeps about a year of dates for the date filter. Older ads still appear without it.
• The Transparency Center does not give ad spend or impressions for commercial ads.
• When Google rate-limits the run's IP, the actor switches to Apify residential proxy by itself and retries, with its traffic charged as above. An advertiser it still can't get comes back as an error item, not charged. After two in a row, the run skips the rest.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Google's Ads Transparency Center?

It collects only what Google's Ads Transparency Center shows publicly, without logging in. Scraping public data is generally legal, but personal data is protected by laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA, and Google's terms may limit how you use what you collect. If you're unsure, ask a lawyer; Apify's Is web scraping legal? is a good start.

Something missing or not working?

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