# Changelog of Google Ads Transparency Scraper & Competitor Ad Monitor (`solidfetch/google-ads-transparency-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/solidfetch/google-ads-transparency-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/solidfetch/google-ads-transparency-scraper.md

## Changelog

### Next release

- New option `readTextAdsWithOcr` (off by default): reads the headline, description and display URL of search text ads from the ad picture with OCR and marks the row `adTextSource: "ocr"`. The text can contain errors and there is no landing URL. A picture that cannot be read leaves the text null and `adTextOcrError` says why. Same price per ad.

- `readTextAdsWithOcr` reads in the language of the run's `region` as well as English (German, Polish, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Italian), so accents are kept. Search text ads whose picture starts with a favicon and a bare display URL, with no advertiser name line, are now read instead of being skipped.

- Domain check takes up to 10,000 domains per run instead of 1,000, and the default run timeout is 2 hours, enough for a full list (about 100 domains a minute).

### 0.1

- Search the Google Ads Transparency Center by brand name, domain, advertiser ID or link; filter by country, dates, format and platform.
- Domain check mode: does a domain advertise on Google, with the likely owner and other advertisers.
- Advertiser lookup mode and a free overview preview of the cost of a pull.
- Ad text, EU impressions and targeting, product data of shopping ads and stored ad images, all optional.
- Monitoring: only ads new since the last run, per-client groups, a webhook digest, and domain watch for started or stopped advertising.