Google Ads Transparency Center Scraper with Ad Copy

Scrape the Google Ads Transparency Center (Google's ad library) and get every ad a company runs on Google Search, YouTube, Shopping, Maps and Play, with the actual ad copy: headlines, descriptions, display URLs, calls to action and landing pages. Search by website, advertiser name, advertiser ID or a Transparency Center link, filter by country, platform, format and date, and export the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or through the API.

Google publishes most text ads only as a picture. This Actor reads the text out of the picture, so you get searchable, comparable ad copy instead of screenshots. Video ads come with their YouTube link, headline, description and button text. For ads shown in the EU you also get how many times each ad was shown, by country and platform, and how its audience was chosen.

No Google account, no cookies, no browser.

What does this Google Ads Transparency scraper do?

• 🔎 Find any advertiser's ads: by website (nike.com), advertiser name (Nike), advertiser ID (AR16735076323512287233) or a link from adstransparency.google.com.
• ✍️ Ad copy as text: headline, description, display URL and business name of text ads, read from Google's preview or from the ad's picture.
• 🎬 Video ads: YouTube video ID and link, thumbnail, duration, channel, headline, long headline, description, call to action and landing page.
• 🛍️ Shopping ads: product title, price, merchant and product picture.
• 📅 When and where: first and last shown dates, days shown, and every country the ad ran in with its own first and last dates.
• 🇪🇺 EU reach and targeting (Digital Services Act data): times shown (ranges) in total, per country and per platform, and whether demographics, locations, contextual signals, customer lists or interests were used to pick the audience.
• 🏷️ Google's topic for the ad (Apparel, Finance, Travel & Tourism ...) and all of the ad's variations.
• 🏢 Advertisers mode: the advertisers behind a website, or every advertiser whose name contains a word, with country, verification status, legal name and number of ads.
• 🎛️ Filters: country, platform (Search, YouTube, Shopping, Maps, Play), format (text, image, video) and date range.
• 💸 Pay per result, nothing for duplicates, and the run stops at your maximum cost.

Who uses Google Ads Transparency Center data?

• Marketers and agencies: see what competitors advertise, which messages they test, and which ads they keep running for months (a strong hint that an ad works).
• Copywriters: collect real headlines and descriptions from a whole category.
• Brand protection: find advertisers that use your brand or point ads to your domain.
• Lead generation: list the companies that advertise on Google in a niche.
• Researchers and journalists: track advertising by topic, country and time, with EU reach data.

How to scrape the Google Ads Transparency Center

1. Click Try for free.
2. Enter websites, advertiser names, advertiser IDs or Transparency Center links, one per line.
3. Pick a country, and optionally a platform, format and date range.
4. Click Start, then download the results or connect them to your tools through the Apify API.

Input

{
    "searchTerms": ["hubspot.com", "Salesforce", "AR16735076323512287233"],
    "region": "US",
    "platform": "all",
    "adFormat": "all",
    "dateFrom": "90 days",
    "maxAdsPerSearch": 200,
    "includeDetails": true
}

Field	What it does
searchTerms	Websites, advertiser names, advertiser IDs (AR…) or adstransparency.google.com links.
resultType	ads (default) or advertisers.
region	Two-letter country code (US, DE, GB …) or anywhere.
platform	all, SEARCH, YOUTUBE, SHOPPING, MAPS or PLAY.
adFormat	all, TEXT, IMAGE or VIDEO.
dateFrom, dateTo	A date (2026-01-01) or a period (30 days, 6 months).
maxAdsPerSearch	Maximum ads for each search term.
maxAdvertisersPerName	For names: how many matching advertisers to include, most ads first.
includeDetails	Ad text, video data, variations, countries, topic and EU reach (charged per ad).
readAdText	Read text ads from their pictures (no extra charge).
deduplicate	Save each ad once per run.
proxyConfiguration	Apify Proxy for large runs.

Output

One row per ad. Switch between the Ads, Ad copy, Reach (EU) and Advertisers views, or export everything.

{
    "adId": "CR07916612096559677441",
    "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR10072600183532683265/creative/CR07916612096559677441?region=US",
    "advertiserId": "AR10072600183532683265",
    "advertiserName": "Hubspot, Inc.",
    "advertiserCountry": "US",
    "advertiserVerified": true,
    "domain": "hubspot.com",
    "format": "video",
    "firstShown": "2026-02-17T21:32:29Z",
    "lastShown": "2026-10-07T14:24:42Z",
    "daysShown": 233,
    "headline": "HubSpot Smart CRM",
    "longHeadline": "HubSpot Smart CRM gives your whole team one source of truth. Get started free.",
    "description": "See all your customer interactions in one place — and know exactly what to do next.",
    "callToAction": "Sign up",
    "landingPageUrl": "https://www.hubspot.com/crm/e010a",
    "adTextSource": "preview",
    "youtubeVideoId": "FbntBiBmDk4",
    "youtubeUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbntBiBmDk4",
    "videoDuration": "0:23",
    "youtubeChannelName": "HubSpot Ads",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FbntBiBmDk4/hqdefault.jpg",
    "variationCount": 4,
    "topic": null,
    "regions": [
        { "region": "US", "regionName": "United States", "firstShown": null, "lastShown": "2026-10-07" },
        { "region": "CA", "regionName": "Canada", "firstShown": null, "lastShown": "2026-10-07" }
    ],
    "regionCount": 2,
    "searchTerm": "hubspot.com",
    "searchType": "website",
    "region": "US",
    "rank": 2,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-08T09:00:00Z"
}

A text ad read from its picture has "adTextSource": "ocr". For an ad shown in the EU, impressionsMin / impressionsMax give the total times shown (Google publishes ranges such as 7,000–8,000), each entry of regions carries its own range and platform split, and audienceSelection looks like this:

{
    "demographics": "included",
    "locations": "included",
    "contextualSignals": "included",
    "customerLists": "not used",
    "topicsOfInterest": "not used"
}

Each run also saves a RUN_SUMMARY record in the key-value store: ads saved, how many got details and ad text, the number of ads Google reports for each search term, and any search terms that failed.

How much does it cost to scrape Google Ads Transparency?

Pay-per-event pricing: you pay only for results.

Event	Price
Ad saved (advertiser, format, dates, days shown, picture or preview link)	$0.0015
Ad details (ad text, video data, variations, countries, topic, EU reach and audience)	$0.0025 per ad
Advertiser saved (advertisers mode)	$0.002

1,000 ads with details and ad text cost $4.00; without details, $1.50. Reading text ads from their pictures costs nothing extra. Duplicates are skipped and not charged, details are charged only when they were loaded, and the run stops exactly at your Maximum cost per run. The prices on the Pricing tab are the ones that apply.

Tips

• Websites are the most reliable search term. Advertiser names are matched as whole words (Nike finds "Nike, Inc." and "NIKE SRL", not "Nikesh") and the advertisers with the most ads are used first.
• Pick a country. Google publishes ads per country; anywhere mixes them. EU countries add reach and audience data.
• Use the date filter to get only recent ads, for example 30 days.
• Large runs: keep Apify Proxy on. The Actor connects directly first; when Google starts limiting requests it switches to the proxy, slows down, changes IP addresses and, if needed, pauses detail lookups for a while, but it still reads the text of every ad. For full details on thousands of ads, choose Residential proxies in Proxy configuration.

Google Ads Transparency Center API alternative

Google offers no official API for the Ads Transparency Center. Run this Actor through the Apify API, the Python or JavaScript client, schedule it to track competitors every week, or connect it to Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, Slack and more with Apify integrations.

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("sinolens/google-ads-transparency-scraper").call(
    run_input={"searchTerms": ["hubspot.com"], "region": "US", "maxAdsPerSearch": 100}
)
for ad in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(ad["headline"], ad["daysShown"], ad["adUrl"])

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape the Google Ads Transparency Center?

The Actor reads only the data Google publishes for everyone on adstransparency.google.com, without logging in. Whether your use is allowed depends on your jurisdiction, Google's terms and what you do with the data, so ask a lawyer if you are unsure. Read more in Apify's post on the legality of web scraping.

How accurate is the ad text?

When Google's preview contains the text (video, Discover, Shopping and many local ads), it is exact ("adTextSource": "preview"). For text ads that Google publishes only as a picture, the text is read with OCR ("adTextSource": "ocr"). These pictures are clean renders, so the result is usually exact, but expect an occasional misread character. adText always has every line that was read, including sitelinks and other extensions.

Why do some ads have no text?

Some ads have no text of their own (image banners, HTML5 ads), and some previews are not public. Their pictures (imageUrl) and variations are still included. Text is not read from banner images.

Why are reach and audience data empty for some ads?

Google publishes them only for ads shown in the EU and EEA, under the Digital Services Act.

Why do some ads have no countries or EU reach?

These come from a separate lookup per ad that Google limits per IP address. When Google throttles it, the Actor saves the ad with its text and dates but without countries and reach, and tells you so in the log. A residential proxy avoids this on large runs.

Why did I get fewer ads than I asked for?

The advertiser may have fewer ads with your filters, duplicates are skipped, and the run stops at your maximum cost. RUN_SUMMARY shows how many ads Google reports for each search term.

Can you add a feature?

Open an issue on the Issues tab. Requests for new fields or filters are welcome.

Changelog

• 0.1: First release: search by website, name, ID or link; country, platform, format and date filters; ad text (preview and OCR); YouTube data; EU reach and audience; advertisers mode.