Google Ads Transparency Scraper - Ads by Advertiser or Domain

Scrape the Google Ads Transparency Center: every ad (creative) of an advertiser, found by advertiser name, website domain or advertiser ID, with its format, first and last shown dates, countries where it ran, image, YouTube video and preview URLs, and a link to the ad page. Filter by country, ad format and date range. One flat JSON record per ad.

What it does

• Takes one main input, advertiser, in any of three forms:
  • a domain or URL (nike.com): ads that lead to this domain, from every advertiser that runs them;
  • an advertiser ID (AR16735076323512287233) or a Transparency Center advertiser URL: the most precise option;
  • an advertiser name (Nike): matched against Google's own advertiser suggestions, ignoring case, punctuation and legal suffixes (Inc., Ltd, GmbH...); when several advertisers share the name, the one with the most ads is used and named in the run log.
• Reads the same JSON endpoints that the Transparency Center web page uses (search, advertiser lookup, ad details), over plain HTTP. No browser, no login, no Google account.
• Optional filters: region (country where the ad was shown), format (text, image, video) and dateRange (last 7, 30, 90 or 365 days).
• For each ad, by default, opens its detail record (countries where it ran, number of variations) and, for image and video ads that Google only shows through a preview script, reads that script to get the image URL and the YouTube video URL.
• Deduplicates ads by creativeId and stops at maxItems.

Typical uses: competitor ad research, creative monitoring, checking which countries and formats a brand advertises in, building a swipe file of ads with their run dates.

Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
advertiser	string	Yes	-	Advertiser name (Nike), website domain or URL (nike.com), or advertiser ID (AR16735076323512287233).
region	string	No	any region	Two-letter country code (US, GB or UK, FR, DE, JP...): only ads shown in that country.
format	string	No	all	all, text, image or video.
dateRange	string	No	anytime	anytime, last_7_days, last_30_days, last_90_days or last_365_days (ads shown at least once in the period, counted back from yesterday, UTC).
maxItems	integer	No	20	Maximum number of ads to return (1 to 5,000).
includeDetails	boolean	No	true	Fill regions, regionCount and variationCount (one extra request per ad).
extractMediaUrls	boolean	No	true	Fill imageUrl / videoUrl for image and video ads shown through a preview script (one extra download of about 200 KB per such ad).

Example input:

{
    "advertiser": "nike.com",
    "region": "US",
    "format": "video",
    "dateRange": "last_30_days",
    "maxItems": 50
}

Output

One dataset item per ad. Real items from a run with "advertiser": "nike.com":

[
    {
        "advertiserId": "AR18378488041124659201",
        "advertiserName": "Nike Retail BV",
        "creativeId": "CR02488267518863474689",
        "format": "text",
        "firstShown": "2021-10-25T07:00:00+00:00",
        "lastShown": "2026-10-28T06:22:05+00:00",
        "daysShown": 1414,
        "landingDomain": "nike.com",
        "imageUrl": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/3129906315878413076",
        "previewUrl": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/3129906315878413076",
        "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR18378488041124659201/creative/CR02488267518863474689?region=anywhere",
        "advertiserCountry": "NL",
        "regions": "AT,BE,BG,BR,CY,CZ,DE,DK,EE,ES,FI,FR,GR,HR,HU,IE,IS,IT,LT,LV,MT,NL,NO,PL,PT,RO,SE,SK,TR",
        "regionCount": 29,
        "variationCount": 3,
        "videoUrl": null,
        "searchRegion": "anywhere",
        "query": "nike.com",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-28T06:46:10.552859+00:00"
    },
    {
        "advertiserId": "AR01266454498310619137",
        "advertiserName": "유한회사 나이키코리아",
        "creativeId": "CR03459814590374739969",
        "format": "video",
        "firstShown": "2026-10-01T02:16:21+00:00",
        "lastShown": "2026-10-28T06:19:51+00:00",
        "daysShown": 28,
        "landingDomain": "nike.com",
        "imageUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6UWPFi97i9w/hqdefault.jpg",
        "previewUrl": "https://displayads-formats.googleusercontent.com/ads/preview/content.js?client=ads-integrity-transparency&...",
        "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR01266454498310619137/creative/CR03459814590374739969?region=anywhere",
        "advertiserCountry": "KR",
        "regions": "KR",
        "regionCount": 1,
        "variationCount": 2,
        "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UWPFi97i9w",
        "searchRegion": "anywhere",
        "query": "nike.com",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-28T06:46:10.552859+00:00"
    }
]

Field	Description
advertiserId, advertiserName	Google advertiser ID (AR...) and name as shown in the Transparency Center.
advertiserCountry	Two-letter country code of the advertiser's location.
creativeId	Google ID of the ad (CR...), unique in the dataset.
format	text, image or video.
firstShown, lastShown	First and last time the ad was shown (ISO 8601, UTC).
daysShown	Number of days on which the ad was shown, as reported by the Transparency Center (at most the days between first and last shown).
regions, regionCount	Countries where the ad ran (comma-separated codes) and their number (includeDetails).
variationCount	Number of variations of the ad archived by Google (includeDetails).
landingDomain	Domain the ad leads to, when Google reports it (mostly in domain searches).
imageUrl	Archived image of the ad, product or display image, or YouTube thumbnail of a video ad.
videoUrl	YouTube URL of a video ad, when its preview references a YouTube video.
previewUrl	Google's preview of the ad: the archived image, or the preview script the Transparency Center uses to render it.
adUrl	Page of the ad in the Google Ads Transparency Center.
searchRegion, query, scrapedAt	Region filter and advertiser input of the run, collection time.

Missing values are null. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel or through the Apify API.

Pricing

Pay-per-event, no start fee: $1.40 per 1,000 ads on the Apify Free plan, with lower prices on paid plans. Each ad pushed to the dataset is one AD event; regions, variations and media URLs are included at no extra charge.

Event	Free	Starter	Scale	Business	Enterprise
Ad (AD)	$1.40	$1.20	$1.00	$0.84	$0.84

Prices in USD per 1,000 events.

Cost examples (Free plan)

Scenario	Ads	Cost
Quick look	10	$0.014
One advertiser, recent ads	100	$0.14
Full creative library	1,000	$1.40

The run stops cleanly when the "maximum cost per run" set in the run options is reached.

Limitations

• Only what the Ads Transparency Center publishes is available. Google does not publish impressions, spend or targeting for commercial ads; those exist only for political ads, which this Actor does not cover.
• Ad text is not extracted: Google archives most text (search) ads as an image of the ad, so the text is in imageUrl, not in a text field.
• videoUrl is filled only when the video ad's preview references a YouTube video (not all of them do); other video ads keep their thumbnail or preview script.
• Name search depends on Google's advertiser suggestions (10 per query). For an ambiguous or very short name, use the domain or the advertiser ID; the resolved advertiser is written in the run log.
• A domain search returns ads from every advertiser that points to that domain (resellers, regional entities), not only the brand owner.
• The date filter only goes back about one year: Google returns no ads for older periods.
• For long-running ads, firstShown can be the start of Google's archive rather than the real launch date (many older ads show October 2021).
• Google's ad counts are approximate ("about 9,000 ads"); maxItems caps the number of ads returned, up to 5,000 per run.