Google Ads Scraper
Pricing
$30.00/month + usage
Google Ads Scraper
Extract text, image and video ads from Google Ads, scraped from the ad library provided by Google Ads Transparency Center. Gain access to ad details, ad copy, locations, and more. Dive deeper into the Google Ads Transparency Center for a competitive edge.
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Pricing
$30.00/month + usage
83
Total users
1.8K
Monthly users
255
Runs succeeded
>99%
Issues response
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Last modified
2 days ago
Crawling gives many "TypeError: Invalid URL" errors
Closed
https://console.apify.com/organization/jecGokyjkaYwjpEr6/actors/runs/9Y13D2BSjPT95l5ew#log
There are a lot of:
2024-05-28T14:01:02.300Z WARN CheerioCrawler: Reclaiming failed request back to the list or queue. TypeError: Invalid URL 2024-05-28T14:01:02.301Z at new URL (node:internal/url:797:36) 2024-05-28T14:01:02.302Z at tryBypassGoogleAdServicesUrl (file:///usr/src/app/dist/src/utils/url.js:86:23) 2024-05-28T14:01:02.303Z at scrapeRenderHtml (file:///usr/src/app/dist/src/routes/creative.js:178:26) 2024-05-28T14:01:02.304Z at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) 2024-05-28T14:01:02.305Z at async Promise.all (index 1) 2024-05-28T14:01:02.306Z at async file:///usr/src/app/dist/src/routes/creative.js:383:24 2024-05-28T14:01:02.307Z at async wrap (/usr/src/app/node_modules/@apify/timeout/cjs/index.cjs:54:21) {"id":"yBr4fkZkZsFJIUs","url":"https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR05544152143130263553/creative/CR08608777850478133249","retryCount":4}
In the logs; this increases a lot the cost of crawling - since it continues until the actor timeouts.
My question: This URL does not seem to be bad: https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR05544152143130263553/creative/CR08608777850478133249
I'm sorry, this issue has been introduced in a very recent update. It has now been fixed.
