Google Ads Transparency Scraper

Every ad an advertiser runs on Google, straight from the Ads Transparency Center: give it advertiser names, advertiser ids, the domains the ads point at, or links copied from the Center, and get one row per ad with its format, preview, first and last shown dates, and (optionally) every region it ran in with impression ranges and platforms where Google publishes them. Every target you ask for comes back as a row, and when there is nothing the row says why (no_ads, not_found, blocked) instead of an empty dataset. You pay only for rows that carry an ad.

No browser, no login: it calls the same JSON endpoints the Center's page uses, paces itself, and rotates IPs before Google's rate limit shows up.

What you get

For each ad, one row with:

• The advertiser: advertiserId, advertiserName, advertiserCountry, advertiserVerified, advertiserUrl.
• The ad: creativeId, url (its page on the Center), format (text, image, video), previewUrl (a snapshot image, or the script that renders HTML5/video ads) with previewType, firstShown and lastShown in ISO 8601 UTC.
• details (with includeDetails): impressions range and dates across regions, the ad's topic, every region it was shown in with its own dates, impression range and platform breakdown (Google publishes counts for ads shown in the EU; elsewhere it publishes dates), and every variant's preview.
• status and reason: ok, no_ads (the advertiser exists but has no ads matching the filters), not_found (no advertiser for that id or name), or blocked (every IP route refused; unpaid).

Input

field	what it does
advertisers	One per line: a name, an AR… id, a domain (nike.com), or a Center link to an advertiser or to one ad.
region	Country code to keep only ads shown there (US, DE, BR); anywhere by default.
formats	Any of text, image, video. Default all.
platforms	Any of search, youtube, shopping, maps, play. Empty: all. Google knows the platform of ads shown since September 2023.
shownFrom, shownTo	Keep only ads whose shown period overlaps the window (YYYY-MM-DD).
maxAdsPerAdvertiser	Newest first. Default 100.
maxAdvertisersPerName	For a name, how many matching advertisers (most ads first) to scrape. Default 3.
includeDetails	One more request per ad for regions, impressions, platforms, topic and variants.
residentialFallback	Retry through residential proxies when Google refuses the datacenter IPs. Default on.

{
    "advertisers": ["Nike, Inc.", "nike.com", "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233?region=US"],
    "region": "US",
    "formats": ["image", "video"],
    "maxAdsPerAdvertiser": 200,
    "includeDetails": true
}

Output example

{
    "query": "AR16735076323512287233",
    "queryType": "advertiserId",
    "status": "ok",
    "reason": null,
    "advertiserId": "AR16735076323512287233",
    "advertiserName": "Nike, Inc.",
    "advertiserCountry": "US",
    "advertiserVerified": true,
    "advertiserUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233?region=US",
    "creativeId": "CR01003845904182018049",
    "url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/creative/CR01003845904182018049?region=US",
    "format": "image",
    "previewUrl": "https://displayads-formats.googleusercontent.com/ads/preview/content.js?client=ads-integrity-transparency&…",
    "previewType": "script",
    "firstShown": "2023-03-01T10:12:44.000Z",
    "lastShown": "2026-09-17T14:29:08.000Z",
    "region": "US",
    "details": {
        "impressions": { "lowerBound": 3000, "upperBound": 4000 },
        "firstShown": "2023-03-01",
        "lastShown": "2024-08-27",
        "topic": { "id": 166, "name": "Apparel & Accessories" },
        "regions": [
            { "region": "ES", "firstShown": "2023-03-05", "lastShown": "2024-08-27", "impressions": { "lowerBound": null, "upperBound": 1000 }, "platforms": [{ "platform": "shopping", "impressions": { "lowerBound": null, "upperBound": 1000 } }] },
            { "region": "GB", "firstShown": null, "lastShown": "2024-08-17", "impressions": { "lowerBound": null, "upperBound": null }, "platforms": [] }
        ],
        "variantPreviewUrls": ["https://displayads-formats.googleusercontent.com/ads/preview/content.js?…"]
    }
}

Why this one

• Names, ids, domains and links all work, and a name is resolved the way the Center's own search box does it, taking the accounts with most ads first (there are eight "Nike" advertisers; the one you mean has ten thousand ads).
• Every filter of the Center: region, format, platform, and a date window, plus paging as deep as you ask.
• Per-region impressions and platforms for ads shown in the EU, straight from the ad's detail call, with the ad's topic and every variant.
• Stays under Google's limits by design: one request per second per IP, several IPs in parallel, a fresh IP every 40 requests, and a route Google keeps refusing is abandoned for the run instead of retried forever. Refused targets come back as blocked, unpaid.
• Says why a row is empty instead of ending with an empty dataset.

Pricing

Pay per ad row (status: ok); a run with includeDetails pays the ad-with-details price instead. Rows with any other status are free.

Limits and notes

• Impression counts exist only for ads Google shows in the EU (Digital Services Act data); other regions carry first/last shown days only.
• Google reports platforms only for ads shown since 4 September 2023; a platform filter hides older ads.
• The date window filters what was fetched: with a low maxAdsPerAdvertiser, older ads may not be reached.
• This Actor reads public data the Ads Transparency Center shows to any visitor. Advertiser names are business names as Google publishes them.