Google Ads Transparency Center Scraper & Competitor Ad Monitor

Only pay for new ads.

Don't pay for the same competitor ads over and over. Enter a competitor's domain, brand name or advertiser ID. The first run pulls their current Google ads (search, display and YouTube, up to your limit). After that, every run delivers only the ads you haven't seen yet.

Most ad-library scrapers return a competitor's entire back catalog every time you run them, and you pay for all of it. Long-running ads are re-sent on every run and have to be filtered out by hand. This Actor remembers every ad it has delivered to each monitor and skips them, so you pay only for new ads. You spend less, your feed has less clutter, and you see the new creative, offer or landing page on the day it appears.

A decision is only as good as the information behind it. Spotting a competitor's new offer a week early can be worth far more than the pennies the data costs.

What it does

Pulls ads from the Google Ads Transparency Center (Google's public ad library): ad images, YouTube video links, first and last shown dates, days running, target domain and the countries they ran in.

No Google account, no API key, no cookies. Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make or n8n.

What can this Google Ads library scraper do?

• 🔎 Search by domain (hubspot.com): every ad pointing to that website, from any advertiser, including resellers and affiliates
• 🏢 Search by advertiser name or ID (Nike, Inc. or AR16735076323512287233)
• 🧭 Keyword discovery: type a brand or category word and scrape the top matching advertisers
• 🌍 Filter by region (US, UK, DE, CA, AU, FR, IN and 30+ more), ad format (text, image, video) and date range
• 🖼️ Ad creatives: image URL and size for search and display ads, plus YouTube URL, video ID and thumbnail for video ads
• 📅 First shown, last shown and days running: long-running ads are usually the ones that make money
• 🔔 New ads since last run: schedule it daily and get only fresh competitor ads, with no duplicates
• 🌐 Add-on: regions shown and variation count for each ad
• ♻️ Reliable: automatic retries, resumes where it stopped after a restart, and clear inputError messages instead of silent empty runs

Who uses it?

• PPC and performance agencies: competitor ad research for pitches and audits in minutes
• Marketers and founders: see what messaging, offers and creatives rivals are testing right now
• Brand protection teams: catch resellers or affiliates bidding on your brand domain
• Market researchers and AI agents: structured ad data for dashboards, LLM analysis and trend reports

How to see competitors' Google ads (3 steps)

1. Add competitor domains (easiest) or advertiser names.
2. Pick a region, a format and optionally a date range.
3. Click Start, then download the results or connect them to Sheets or Slack. New-ads-only is on by default: add a daily Schedule and give each watchlist its own monitorName. Turn it off for a one-time full export.

Input example

{
  "domains": ["hubspot.com", "salesforce.com"],
  "region": "US",
  "adFormat": "ALL",
  "dateFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "maxAdsPerQuery": 200,
  "onlyNewAds": true,
  "monitorName": "crm-competitors"
}

Output example

{
  "advertiserId": "AR16735076323512287233",
  "advertiserName": "Nike, Inc.",
  "creativeId": "CR10921743470246756353",
  "format": "VIDEO",
  "firstShown": "2026-05-01T08:33:22Z",
  "lastShown": "2026-10-13T08:30:29Z",
  "daysShown": 165,
  "targetDomain": "nike.com",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...",
  "videoThumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/.../hqdefault.jpg",
  "imageUrl": null,
  "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/creative/CR10921743470246756353?region=US",
  "regionsShown": ["CA"],
  "region": "US"
}

Text (search) ads come back as Google's own rendered image of the ad (imageUrl), exactly as shown in the Transparency Center.

How much does it cost to scrape Google Ads Transparency Center?

Pay only for results: $12 per 1,000 ads, with lower prices on paid Apify plans. YouTube links are included. The optional regions shown add-on costs $3 per 1,000 ads. There's no monthly fee, and maxAdsTotal caps what you spend. A 50-competitor daily monitor that returns only new ads usually costs cents a day.

Why this Google Ads Transparency scraper?

	This Actor	Typical alternatives
Domain, advertiser name, ID and keyword search	✅	Often only one
New-ads-only monitoring	✅	❌
YouTube video links and thumbnails	✅	Rarely
First/last shown and days running	✅	Partial
Resume after restart, clear input errors	✅	❌

Is there a Google Ads Transparency Center API?

Google doesn't offer an official public API for the Transparency Center. This Actor works as one: call it from the Apify API, Python, JavaScript, Make, Zapier, n8n or an AI agent through the Apify MCP server, and get JSON back.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape the Google Ads Transparency Center? The Transparency Center is a public library Google publishes so people can see who is advertising. This Actor only collects public ad data, with no login and no personal data. Check your local laws and Google's terms for your use case.

Can I search by keyword in the ad text? Google's library searches advertisers and domains, not ad copy. Use keywords to find advertisers, then filter the results.

Can I see competitors' ad spend or keywords? No. Google doesn't publish spend, bids or keywords for commercial ads.

Why did I get zero ads? The advertiser may not have run that format in that region or date range. Try region anywhere and format ALL.

How far back does data go? As far as Google shows it, usually the past several years for active advertisers.

Questions or feature requests? Open an issue on the Issues tab and we usually reply within one business day.

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