📣 Google Ads Transparency Scraper: Competitor Ad Library

See every Google ad a competitor is running: Search, YouTube, Shopping, Maps and Play. Data comes from Google's public Ads Transparency Center. Enter a domain, an advertiser ID or a company name and get a clean list of ad creatives, with format, preview image, and first-shown and last-shown dates.

• 🔎 Three ways in: a domain (nike.com), an advertiser ID (AR16735076323512287233) or a name search (hubspot) that finds the advertiser accounts for you
• 🖼️ Creative details: creative ID, format (text, image or video), preview image or video preview link, the advertiser's verified status, and a direct link to the ad in the Transparency Center
• 📅 Run-time facts: first shown, last shown, days running and whether the ad is active right now
• 🌍 Any region: 210+ countries, or "anywhere"
• 🔔 Monitor mode: schedule it and get only ads you haven't seen before, so you can spot a competitor's new campaigns the day they launch
• 🛡️ Built not to break: no browser, no proxies, no login and no CAPTCHAs. The data comes from a licensed ads-data API, so runs don't fail when Google changes its page
• 💸 Pay only for ads you get: errors, "no ads" results and filtered-out ads are free

Quick start

{
  "targets": ["nike.com"],
  "region": "US"
}

Find a competitor by name and pull its ads:

{
  "advertiserSearch": ["hubspot"],
  "fetchAdsForFoundAdvertisers": true,
  "region": "US"
}

Watch for new creatives every day (put this on a schedule):

{
  "targets": ["competitor-one.com", "competitor-two.com"],
  "onlyNewAds": true,
  "lastShownWithinDays": 2
}

Output

One row per ad creative, most recently shown first:

Field	Example	Notes
query	nike.com	What you entered
advertiserName / advertiserId	Nike, Inc. / AR16735076323512287233
verified	true	Advertiser identity verified by Google
creativeId	CR04339633203531743233	Stable ID of the ad
format	text	text, image or video
previewImageUrl	https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/…	Rendered ad image (text and image ads)
previewUrl	https://displayads-formats.googleusercontent.com/…	Interactive preview (video and HTML ads)
firstShown / lastShown	2023-11-16T22:47:25Z / 2026-10-27T01:45:50Z	UTC
daysRunning	1076	Long-running ads are usually the winners
isActive	true	Shown in the last 48 hours
isNew	true	Monitor mode only
adUrl	https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/…/creative/…	Open the ad in Google's Transparency Center
region, platform, rank, fetchedAt

A name search adds one row per advertiser account: advertiserName, advertiserId, accountGroup (for companies with several accounts), verified, location, adsCountApprox, advertiserUrl and relatedDomains.

Targets that can't be processed get a recordType: "error" row that explains why, and targets with no ads get a no_ads row. Neither is ever charged. The run summary in the OUTPUT record shows per-target totals, including Google's approximate total ad count (totalAdsApprox).

The dataset has two views, Ads and Advertisers. Export to CSV, Excel or JSON, or use the API, Make, n8n or Zapier.

Input options

Option	Default	What it does
targets		Domains, advertiser IDs (comma-separate up to 25 IDs of one company) or Transparency Center URLs
advertiserSearch		Company or brand names to look up
fetchAdsForFoundAdvertisers / maxAdvertisersPerSearch	false / 1	Also list the ads of the top matching advertiser(s)
region	US	ISO code, country name or anywhere
platform	all	google_search, youtube, google_shopping, google_maps, google_play
adFormat	all	text, image, video
maxAdsPerTarget	120	Up to 360 with format all (see limits)
lastShownWithinDays	0	Keep only recently shown ads. 1–2 means running now
dateFrom / dateTo		Only ads shown in this date range
onlyNewAds / monitorStoreName	false	Monitor mode. Remembers what you've already received in a named store in your account

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price	When
Ad	$1.00 / 1,000 ads	Each ad row you receive
Advertiser	$3.00 / 1,000	Each advertiser account from a name search
Monitor check	$0.008 / target	Monitor mode, each target checked after the first (baseline) run
New ad	$3.00 / 1,000	Monitor mode, each new creative found

Set Max cost per run in the run options. The Actor only fetches what fits in that limit and never charges more than it.

Limits, honestly

• Google's Transparency Center returns at most 120 creatives per query, newest first. With format all, the Actor also queries text, image and video separately, which lifts the limit to 360 unique creatives per target. Very large advertisers (thousands of ads) are covered by their most recently shown ads. Narrow down with platform, adFormat or region to go deeper.
• Ad copy text and the regional impression ranges aren't included yet. For text and image ads, the preview image shows the rendered copy.
• A domain target returns every ad that points to that domain, including ads that partners, agencies or resellers run for it (the advertiserName column shows who paid). To see one company's own ads only, use its advertiser ID or a name search.
• adsCountApprox and totalAdsApprox are Google's rounded estimates.
• Old date ranges may return nothing: Google keeps fewer historical creatives.

FAQ

Do I need a Google account or API key? No.

Is this legal? The Ads Transparency Center is a public library that Google publishes so anyone can see who advertises and how. The output contains business advertisers and their ads only, with no personal data. You're responsible for how you use the data.

Why would a run return fewer ads than Google's total? See the 120-per-query limit above. totalAdsApprox in the summary tells you how many exist.

Something wrong? Open an issue on the Issues tab. SteadyScrape answers there.

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