# Google Ads Transparency Scraper: Ad Text & Copy (`robertosan16/google-ads-transparency-scraper`) Actor Get every Google ad of a competitor from the Ads Transparency Center, with the ad copy as text: headline, description, display URL, app and Shopping product. Search by brand, website or advertiser ID; dates, regions, EU impressions, only-new monitoring. - **URL**: https://apify.com/robertosan16/google-ads-transparency-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Robert Khairislamov](https://apify.com/robertosan16) (community) - **Categories:** Lead generation, Developer tools - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $1.05 / 1,000 results This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md. ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run. For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below. Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`). # README ## Google Ads Transparency Scraper: Ad Text & Copy Get **every Google ad of a competitor** from the [Google Ads Transparency Center](https://adstransparency.google.com/), **with the ad copy as text**: headline, description, display URL, the product of Shopping ads and the app of app ads. Search by **brand name, website or advertiser ID**, filter by **country, platform (Search, YouTube, Shopping, Maps, Play), format and dates**, and add each ad's **variations, countries and EU impressions**. No login, no browser. **$1.50 per 1,000 ads.** ### What can this Google Ads scraper do? - 🔎 **Every ad of a website, brand or advertiser**: a website (nike.com) returns every ad that points to it, from every advertiser account, including agencies and resellers; a brand name is matched to the advertiser accounts with that name. - ✍️ **Ad copy as text**: headline, description and display URL of Search ads, product title and store of Shopping ads, app name, ID, description and store link of app ads. Other scrapers return only a link to a picture. - 📅 **Dates**: when each ad was first and last shown, and on how many days. - 🌍 **Countries and platforms**: ads shown in any of 240+ countries or anywhere, on Google Search, YouTube, Shopping, Maps or Play, as text, image or video ads. - 📊 **Details (optional)**: every variation of an ad (A/B versions), every country it ran in with its dates, and for ads shown in the EU, impressions per country and per platform. - 🔔 **Only new ads**: schedule the Actor daily or weekly and save only the ads your competitors launched since the last run. - 🏢 **Advertisers**: one row per advertiser account with its country and ad count, for example to see which companies advertise a website or whether a list of companies runs Google Ads. ### What data does it extract? | Field | Example | |---|---| | `advertiserName` / `advertiserId` | Nike, Inc. / AR16735076323512287233 | | `domain` | nike.com | | `creativeId` / `adUrl` | CR08632639554903343105 / link to the ad in the Transparency Center | | `format` | TEXT, IMAGE or VIDEO | | `firstShown` / `lastShown` / `shownForDays` | 2023-06-21 / 2026-10-21 / 1171 | | `headline` / `description` / `displayUrl` | Nike® Official Site / Lo Último en Calzado… / nike.com | | `adTexts` / `businessName` | all texts of the ad / Nike | | `appName` / `appId` / `destinationUrl` / `callToAction` | for app ads | | `imageUrl` / `width` / `height` / `previewImageUrl` | picture of the ad and of the product | | `variations` / `variationCount` | every version of the ad (with Details) | | `regions` | countries with first and last date and EU impressions (with Details) | | `impressions` / `platformImpressions` | EU impressions in total and per platform (with Details) | | `region` / `source` / `scrapedAt` | US / nike.com / 2026-10-21T07:05:14Z | ### How to scrape Google Ads Transparency Center 1. Enter **brands, websites, advertiser IDs or Transparency Center links**, one per line. 2. Choose the **region** (a country code such as `US`, or `ANYWHERE`) and, if you like, **platforms**, **ad format** and **dates**. 3. Click **Start** and download the ads as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or use them through the API. #### Example input ```json { "queries": ["nike.com", "hellofresh", "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233?region=US"], "region": "US", "platforms": ["SEARCH"], "adFormat": "ALL", "startDate": "2026-09-01", "maxAdsPerSearch": 500, "includeAdText": true, "includeDetails": false } ``` #### Example output ```json { "advertiserId": "AR16735076323512287233", "advertiserName": "Nike, Inc.", "domain": "nike.com", "creativeId": "CR08632639554903343105", "format": "TEXT", "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/creative/CR08632639554903343105?region=US", "firstShown": "2023-06-21T21:16:41.000Z", "lastShown": "2026-10-21T06:31:43.000Z", "shownForDays": 1171, "headline": "Nike® Official Site", "description": "Lo Último en Calzado, Ropa y Equipamiento Nike para Hombre, Mujer y Niños. Compra Ahora.", "displayUrl": "nike.com", "businessName": "Nike", "adTexts": ["Nike® Official Site", "Lo Último en Calzado, Ropa y Equipamiento Nike para Hombre, Mujer y Niños. Compra Ahora."], "appName": null, "appId": null, "destinationUrl": null, "imageUrl": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/1946594381649277428", "width": 348, "height": 497, "region": "US", "source": "nike.com", "scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T07:05:14.548Z" } ``` With **Details** on, an ad shown in the EU also has its countries and impressions: ```json { "variationCount": 3, "regions": [ { "region": "PL", "firstShown": "2026-04-01", "lastShown": "2026-10-20", "impressions": { "min": 3000, "max": 4000 }, "platformImpressions": [ { "platform": "SEARCH", "impressions": { "min": 3000, "max": 4000 } }, { "platform": "YOUTUBE", "impressions": { "min": 0, "max": 1000 } } ] } ], "impressions": { "min": 3000, "max": 4000 } } ``` ### Use cases - **Competitor ad research**: read every ad a competitor runs on Google, with its copy, and see which ones have run the longest; an ad shown for hundreds of days is usually a winner. - **Copywriting and ad inspiration**: collect headlines and descriptions of a whole market and find the angles, offers and keywords that keep coming back. - **New-ad monitoring**: schedule a daily run with **Only new ads** and get only the ads launched since yesterday, by email, Slack or Google Sheets. - **Agencies and lead generation**: check which companies run Google Ads, how many ads, in which countries, and which agencies run ads for a website. - **Brand protection**: find advertisers that run ads for your website or brand name. - **Datasets and AI**: clean ad copy for classification, trend analysis and LLM pipelines. ### How much does it cost? You pay only for results: **$1.50 per 1,000 ads** (or advertisers), with ad text and Details included. That is the price on the Apify Free plan; paid Apify plans pay less: $1.35 per 1,000 on Starter, $1.20 on Scale and $1.05 on Business. There is no start fee, and proxy costs are included. The Apify free plan covers about 3,300 ads every month. ### Tips - **Website or brand name?** A website returns every ad pointing to it, from every account (the brand, its agencies, resellers). A brand name is matched to advertiser accounts with that name; the account with the most ads comes first, and **Advertisers per brand name** takes more of them. - **Ad text coverage**: Google shows many text ads only as a picture. The Actor looks for the text in the ad and in its variations; when every version is a picture, the ad keeps its `imageUrl` (a picture of the ad) and no text. How many ads come with text depends on the advertiser: in our tests of Google Search text ads in the US, 83 of 100 for nike.com, 75 for on.com, 74 for newbalance.com and 66 for asics.com, but 2 for brooksrunning.com and about 1 in 100 for software companies such as monday.com. - **Keyword insertion**: headlines such as `{KeyWord:Nike Men's Clothing}` are as the advertiser wrote them: Google replaces the brackets with the searcher's keyword, and shows the text after the colon when the keyword does not fit. - **Platform filter**: Google applies it to ads shown since September 2023. - **Impressions**: Google publishes impressions only for ads shown in the European Union, as ranges. - **Only new ads**: use a separate **Memory name** for each monitoring task; the first run saves every ad and remembers them. - **Errors per target**: see the `SUMMARY` record in the run's key-value store. ### FAQ **Why not just ask an AI chatbot?** A chatbot cannot open the Transparency Center and list hundreds of ads with their dates and copy. This Actor reads the Transparency Center itself and returns every ad of a website or advertiser in the same fields every time, at a fixed price per 1,000 ads. AI agents can call it as a tool through Apify's MCP server. **Does it show how much an advertiser spends or which keywords it bids on?** No. Google does not publish spend or keywords. For EU ads it publishes impression ranges, which the Actor returns with Details. **Why does Google say "8,000–9,000 ads" but I got fewer?** The Actor stops at **Max ads per brand, website or advertiser** (100 by default). Raise it to get more, up to 10,000 per entry. **What happens when Google shows its check page?** Google sometimes asks an address to prove it is not a robot. The Actor does not solve the check: it sends the request again from a new proxy address. **Is it legal to scrape the Ads Transparency Center?** The Actor reads public information that Google publishes about ads and advertisers, without logging in. Check the terms that apply to your use case. This Actor is not affiliated with Google. ### Integrations and API - **Google Sheets, Slack, email and BI tools**: connect the Actor to Make, Zapier or n8n, or use the **Integrations** tab of this Actor. Schedule it with **Only new ads** to get alerts for new competitor ads. - **Webhooks**: call your own URL when a run finishes, for example to load the ads into your database. - **AI agents (MCP)**: add `https://mcp.apify.com?tools=robertosan16/google-ads-transparency-scraper` as an MCP server in Claude, Cursor or VS Code, and your agent can look up any company's Google ads. - **API**: one request runs the Actor and returns the ads, for runs of up to 5 minutes. Start longer runs with the `runs` endpoint and read the dataset when they finish. ```bash curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/robertosan16~google-ads-transparency-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"queries":["nike.com"],"region":"US","maxAdsPerSearch":100}' ``` Missing a field or a feature? Open an issue in the Issues tab or email , and we will reply quickly. # Actor input Schema ## `queries` (type: `array`): Brand names (Nike), websites (nike.com), advertiser IDs (AR…) or Ads Transparency Center links, one per line. A website returns every ad that points to it, from any advertiser account; a brand name is matched to the advertiser accounts with that name. ## `domains` (type: `array`): Websites such as nike.com. Same as entering them above. ## `advertiserIds` (type: `array`): Advertiser IDs that start with AR, from the advertiser's Transparency Center link. ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): Links to advertiser pages, ad pages or website searches on adstransparency.google.com. ## `resultType` (type: `string`): Ads: one row per ad. Advertisers: one row per advertiser account, with its ad count; for a website, the accounts that run ads for it. ## `region` (type: `string`): Country where the ads were shown: a two-letter code (US, GB, DE, IN…) or ANYWHERE for all countries. ## `platforms` (type: `array`): Only ads shown on these Google platforms. Empty for all. Google applies this filter to ads shown since September 2023. ## `adFormat` (type: `string`): Only ads of this format. ## `startDate` (type: `string`): Only ads shown on or after this date. ## `endDate` (type: `string`): Only ads shown on or before this date. ## `maxAdsPerSearch` (type: `integer`): Ads to save for each entry (for a brand name, for each matching advertiser). ## `maxAdvertisersPerQuery` (type: `integer`): A brand name can match several advertiser accounts; the ones with the most ads come first. ## `includeAdText` (type: `boolean`): Read the ad's headline, description, display URL, app and product from its preview. Google shows many text ads only as a picture; those keep the picture link and no text. ## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`): One more request per ad: every variation of the ad, each country it ran in with first and last dates, and for ads shown in the EU, impressions per country and platform. Also finds ad text in variations. ## `onlyNewAds` (type: `boolean`): Save only ads that earlier runs with the same memory name have not saved. Schedule the Actor daily or weekly to get just the new ads of your competitors. ## `monitorStoreName` (type: `string`): Name of the key-value store that remembers saved ads for Only new ads. Use one name per monitoring task. ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Stop after this many results in the whole run. 0 for no limit. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Apify Proxy datacenter addresses work well; the Actor moves to a new address when Google asks for a check. ## Actor input object example ```json { "queries": [ "nike.com" ], "resultType": "ads", "region": "US", "adFormat": "ALL", "maxAdsPerSearch": 100, "maxAdvertisersPerQuery": 1, "includeAdText": true, "includeDetails": false, "onlyNewAds": false, "monitorStoreName": "ads-transparency-seen", "maxItems": 0, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `ads` (type: `string`): Ads with advertiser, format, dates, ad text and links. ## `summary` (type: `string`): Ads in the Transparency Center, ads saved and errors for every brand, website or advertiser. # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "queries": [ "nike.com" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("robertosan16/google-ads-transparency-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "queries": ["nike.com"] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("robertosan16/google-ads-transparency-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}") for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "queries": [ "nike.com" ] }' | apify call robertosan16/google-ads-transparency-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,robertosan16/google-ads-transparency-scraper" } } } ``` The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer ` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations). ## OpenAPI specification Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/OT64Iwq4qfy9JxLC8/builds/XGOzsHWQHobY7K9Y0/openapi.json