Google Ads Transparency Center Scraper 🔍

See every ad a competitor is currently running on Google, and how long each one has been running.

Google publishes every ad it serves in the Ads Transparency Center, but the site only lets you scroll one advertiser at a time and gives you nothing to export. This actor turns that into a dataset: one row per ad creative, with the creative image, the format, the first and last date it was seen, the number of days it actually ran, and the verified legal entity paying for it. Search by brand name, by advertiser ID, or by landing domain.

No API key, no Google Ads account, no login. One flat price per ad with platform usage included, so what you see in the pricing box is what the run costs.

Two things this returns that the other Transparency Center actors do not advertise: the advertiser's own Google Ads account, creative and ad-group IDs (join keys — two advertiser records sharing a customer ID are the same Google Ads account), and a separate advertiser profile row carrying the legal entity Google verified, its country of registration and its identity-verification status. Everything else in this category returns creatives and dates; this one also tells you who is legally behind them and which account bought them.

On reliability: every Apify actor publishes its own 30-day run stats, and on the figures read on 29 August 2026 the largest actor in this category had timed out on 5.9% of 285,166 runs. This one has not timed out or failed a run yet, at a far smaller volume — a fair comparison only once it has run as much. Read both records yourself before trusting either; they move.

What you get

One record per ad creative (recordType: "ad"):

Field	What it is
advertiserId / advertiserName	Who is paying for the ad
creativeId	Google's ID for this creative
adUrl	Public Transparency Center page for the ad
format	text (search ads), image (display and Demand Gen) or video (YouTube)
firstShown / lastShown	ISO dates the creative was first and last seen
approxDaysShown	Days the creative actually ran, as Google counts them. It is not last minus first: a creative first seen 1,350 days ago reported 1,210 days shown
landingDomain	The site the ad points at (always filled in domain mode)
imageUrl, imageWidth, imageHeight	The archived creative image
previewUrl	Google's rendered preview of the ad, ready to embed in an iframe
googleAdsCustomerId	The advertiser's obfuscated Google Ads account ID
googleCreativeId, googleAdGroupId	The advertiser's own numeric IDs for the creative and its ad group
variationCount	How many different renderings this creative has (detail mode)
regionsShown, regionCount	Every country the ad ran in, with a last-seen date per country (detail mode)

Plus one profile row per advertiser (recordType: "advertiser"):

Field	What it is
advertiserLegalName	The legal entity Google verified before letting them advertise
advertiserCountry	Where that entity is registered
identityVerified	Whether Google completed advertiser identity verification
advertiserUrl	Public advertiser page

What each field is actually good for

The Google Ads account ID. Every ad carries the advertiser's obfuscated customer ID, its numeric creative ID and its ad group ID, read straight out of Google's own preview URL. Those are join keys: two advertiser records with the same customer ID are the same Google Ads account, however differently the two advertiser names are spelled. Nothing else in the Transparency Center lets you prove that two brands share one buyer.

The verified legal entity. The advertiser profile row carries the legal name Google verified before letting the account advertise, the country that entity is registered in, and whether verification actually completed. That is the field you cite in a brand-abuse complaint or a partner audit — a trading name is not evidence, a verified legal entity is.

Domain search. Ask for nike.com and you get every advertiser buying ads that land there, not just Nike itself. On a live check that returned Nike Inc., Nike Retail BV, Nike Global Trading Singapore, Nike Japan and a WPP media agency. That is how you find out who else is bidding on your own brand. (Other actors in this category offer a domain mode too; what is worth checking is whether theirs returns the other advertisers or only the brand you asked for.)

approxDaysShown. Google's own count of days the creative served, not lastShown minus firstShown. A creative first seen 1,350 days ago reported 1,210 days shown — the 140-day gap is real information about pauses, and any tool that computes the difference itself will silently lose it.

Per-country reach. Turn on the detail option and each ad tells you every country it ran in with a last-seen date for each, so you can see a campaign being tested in one market before it rolls out.

Who uses it

Performance marketers and agencies. Pull a competitor's whole ad library before a pitch or a quarterly review. approxDaysShown is the honest signal for which creatives are working: an ad nobody pauses after 300 days is an ad that converts, and a burst of new creatives dated last week is a campaign launch.

Brand protection. Run your own domain weekly. Affiliates, resellers and unauthorised partners bidding on your brand show up as separate advertisers pointing at your site.

Competitive intelligence and market research. Filter by country to see which markets a company is actually spending in, and by format to separate its search spend from its YouTube spend.

Ad creative research. Filter to image or video and collect creative URLs from everyone in a category at once.

Input

Field	What it does
advertisers	Brand names ("Nike"), Transparency Center advertiser IDs ("AR16735076323512287233") or advertiser page URLs
domains	Landing domains like nike.com — every advertiser buying ads that point there
region	One of 103 markets, or ANY for worldwide
adFormat	any (default), text for search ads, image for display and Demand Gen, video for YouTube. Those four values are the whole list — it is Google's own format enum
platform	any (default), google_search, youtube, google_shopping, google_maps, google_play
shownAfter	YYYY-MM-DD. Only ads that ran on or after this date
shownBefore	YYYY-MM-DD. Only ads that ran on or before this date, inclusive — the Transparency Center's own end bound is exclusive, so the actor shifts it a day for you and 31 July really means 31 July
maxResults	Hard stop on ad creatives, default 500
fetchCreativeDetails	Adds every country the ad ran in and every creative variation, one extra lookup per ad
allMatchingAdvertisers	Pull every advertiser matching a brand name instead of only the biggest one

Pricing

You pay per ad creative that lands in the dataset, per advertiser profile row, and for the optional creative-detail lookup only when the detail actually came back.

Event	Price
Ad creative	$0.002 per ad ($2.00 per 1,000)
Advertiser profile	$0.003 per advertiser ($3.00 per 1,000)
Creative detail lookup	$0.002 per ad enriched ($2.00 per 1,000) — only with Add every country and every variation on, and only when the details arrived
Actor start	$0.001 per run

Bronze, Silver and Gold plans get 10%, 20% and 30% off the per-ad price, so 1,000 ads are $2.00, or $1.40 on Gold. The other events are flat.

Apify platform usage is included in the price — and the datacenter proxy the actor falls back to, where it does. There is no separate compute or proxy line on your bill and no subscription. A refused page and an advertiser with no ads are never charged.

Input examples

Every competitor's ads in the US:

{
  "advertisers": ["Nike", "Adidas", "Puma"],
  "region": "US",
  "maxResults": 500
}

Who else is buying ads that land on your site, worldwide:

{
  "domains": ["stripe.com"],
  "region": "ANY",
  "maxResults": 1000
}

This quarter's YouTube campaigns only, with the country breakdown:

{
  "advertisers": ["AR16735076323512287233"],
  "platform": "youtube",
  "shownAfter": "2026-07-01",
  "fetchCreativeDetails": true,
  "maxResults": 200
}

A brand that advertises through regional entities:

{
  "advertisers": ["Booking.com"],
  "allMatchingAdvertisers": true,
  "region": "GB",
  "maxResults": 2000
}

FAQ

Do I need a Google Ads account or an API key? No. The Ads Transparency Center is public and this actor reads it directly.

Can I get the ad's headline and description text? Not as text. Google archives text ads as a rendered picture of the ad rather than as fields, so what you get is imageUrl (the picture) and previewUrl (Google's live rendering). Nothing that reads the Transparency Center can give you the headline as a string, including the tools that imply they can.

Can I get the ad's click-through URL? Google does not publish the final URL, only the advertiser and, in domain mode, the domain the ad lands on. landingDomain is as close as the source goes.

Why do I get several advertisers for one brand name? Because the brand really does have several. "Nike" resolves to nine separate verified advertisers, from Nike, Inc. with about 9,000 ads down to a personal account with one. By default the actor picks the largest, which is almost always the one you mean. Set allMatchingAdvertisers to true to get all of them.

How many ads can I pull for one advertiser? As many as Google publishes. Large advertisers have thousands, so maxResults is what keeps a run predictable. The log reports the size bracket Google shows on the page ("about 8,000 to 9,000 ads") before it starts paging.

What stops a big run from hanging? maxResults is a hard stop, not a hint: the run stops paging the moment it has that many creatives, and the log prints the size bracket Google reports for the advertiser ("about 8,000 to 9,000 ads") before it starts, so you can see what you are asking for. The actor runs in 256 MB with a one-hour default timeout and charges per ad that actually lands in the dataset plus a $0.001 start floor — an interrupted run bills for the rows you already have, never for the ones you did not get.

How current is the data? Live. lastShown on an active ad is usually today's date.

What does the country filter actually do? It restricts results to ads served in that country. An advertiser can have thousands of ads in the US and a hundred in France. Leave it on "Any country" to see everything at once.

Does political-ad data come with it? Not in this version. The Transparency Center publishes extra spend and impression ranges for election ads under a separate topic, which this actor does not query yet.

What if an advertiser is running nothing? The run finishes normally with the advertiser profile row and no ad rows, and the log says so. You are only billed for what actually comes back.

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