Google Ads Transparency Scraper - Ads by Domain & Monitor

Get every Google ad of any company from the public Google Ads Transparency Center - by domain, advertiser ID or advertiser name:

• Ads - one row per ad: advertiser, ad format (text / image / video), first and last shown date, days shown, active flag, link to the ad page, and optionally the ad text (headline, description, button, landing URL).
• Check - one summary row per domain: does this company advertise on Google at all? How many ads, which advertisers, which formats, when was the last ad shown. Built for lists of thousands of domains.
• Monitor - schedule it and receive only new and stopped ads since the last run, per domain, with a summary row.

No Google account, no API key, no cookies. Filter by country, platform (Search, YouTube, Shopping, Play, Maps), ad format and dates.

Who is it for?

• PPC agencies and freelancers - see what competitors run on Google before pitching or building a campaign; spot new competitor ads the day they appear.
• Lead generation and sales - "does this company run Google Ads?" for 5,000 domains in one run (a company that pays for ads has budget). Feed the answer to your CRM.
• SaaS, market research and AI agents - structured data on who advertises, since when, in which format and country.
• Brand protection and compliance - find who advertises on your brand or domain, and when those ads started and stopped.

What data do you get?

Every row has a recordType: ad, domainCheck or monitorSummary.

Field	Example
query, queryType, resolvedFrom	hubspot.com, domain (or advertiserId; for advertiserName the query is the advertiser ID found and resolvedFrom is the name you typed)
advertiserId, advertiserName	AR10072600183532683265, Hubspot, Inc.
creativeId, adUrl	CR05575990503767277569, link to the ad on the Transparency Center
format, adDomain	text / image / video, hubspot.com
firstShown, lastShown, daysShown, isActive	ISO dates, days with impressions, shown within the last 2 days
imageUrl, previewUrl	picture of image ads (text ads are often archived as pictures), Google's preview script
headline, description, longHeadline, callToAction, visibleUrl, landingUrl, adTextStatus	ad text (only with Extract ad text)
advertises, adsCountMin, adsCountMax, advertisers[], formatsOnFirstPage, latestShown	domain check (Google reports a range such as 3,000-4,000)
changeType	new / stopped in monitor mode

How to use

1. Pick a mode: Ads, Check or Monitor.
2. Paste domains (full URLs are fine - https://www.hubspot.com/pricing becomes hubspot.com), and/or advertiser IDs (AR..., from the advertiser page URL) and advertiser names.
3. Optionally set region, platform, ad format, dates and max ads per domain.
4. Click Start, then download JSON, CSV or Excel - or schedule it.

Example input - all ads of a domain in Germany, with ad text

{
  "mode": "ads",
  "domains": ["hubspot.com"],
  "region": "DE",
  "platform": "SEARCH",
  "maxAdsPerDomain": 50,
  "includeAdText": true
}

Example input - does each company advertise? (bulk check)

{
  "mode": "check",
  "domains": ["hubspot.com", "https://www.shopify.com/pricing", "example.org"],
  "advertiserNames": ["Zendesk"]
}

Example input - monitor competitors every morning

{
  "mode": "monitor",
  "domains": ["hubspot.com", "pipedrive.com"],
  "maxAdsPerDomain": 1000
}

Example output - an ad (with ad text)

{
  "recordType": "ad",
  "query": "hubspot.com",
  "queryType": "domain",
  "resolvedFrom": null,
  "advertiserId": "AR10072600183532683265",
  "advertiserName": "Hubspot, Inc.",
  "creativeId": "CR05575990503767277569",
  "format": "video",
  "firstShown": "2026-07-01T16:31:20.000Z",
  "lastShown": "2026-10-06T04:02:48.000Z",
  "daysShown": 99,
  "isActive": true,
  "adDomain": "hubspot.com",
  "imageUrl": null,
  "previewUrl": "https://displayads-formats.googleusercontent.com/ads/preview/content.js?client=ads-integrity-transparency&creativeId=814653858379",
  "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR10072600183532683265/creative/CR05575990503767277569?region=anywhere",
  "headline": "Follow up faster. Close more deals.",
  "description": "Get the context to close the deal. HubSpot keeps track of all your contact history.",
  "longHeadline": "Everything your team needs to grow. Get started free with HubSpot Smart CRM.",
  "callToAction": "Sign up",
  "visibleUrl": "hubspot.com",
  "landingUrl": "https://www.hubspot.com/crm/e010a",
  "adTextStatus": "ok",
  "region": "anywhere",
  "platformFilter": "all",
  "changeType": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-06T04:30:00.000Z"
}

Example output - a domain check

{
  "recordType": "domainCheck",
  "query": "hubspot.com",
  "queryType": "domain",
  "resolvedFrom": null,
  "advertises": true,
  "adsCountMin": 3000,
  "adsCountMax": 4000,
  "advertisers": [
    { "id": "AR10072600183532683265", "name": "Hubspot, Inc.", "adsOnFirstPage": 6 },
    { "id": "AR15555902810561183745", "name": "Investiere Dich Frei GmbH", "adsOnFirstPage": 1 }
  ],
  "formatsOnFirstPage": { "text": 9, "image": 0, "video": 1 },
  "latestShown": "2026-10-06T04:11:11.000Z",
  "earliestShownOnFirstPage": "2021-10-25T07:00:00.000Z",
  "region": "anywhere",
  "platform": "all",
  "format": "all",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-06T04:30:00.000Z",
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null
}

A domain without ads gives "advertises": false and 0 / 0. If a domain could not be checked, the row has "status": "error" and an error text - and is not charged.

Example output - a monitor summary

{
  "recordType": "monitorSummary",
  "query": "hubspot.com",
  "queryType": "domain",
  "resolvedFrom": null,
  "changeType": "update",
  "adsScanned": 412,
  "newAds": 2,
  "stoppedAds": 1,
  "activeAds": 398,
  "trackedAds": 450,
  "scanTruncated": false,
  "previousRunAt": "2026-10-05T04:30:00.000Z",
  "region": "anywhere",
  "platform": "all",
  "format": "all",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-06T04:30:00.000Z",
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null
}

Pricing

Pay per event - you pay only for results:

Event	Price
Ad saved to the dataset (Ads mode; every new or stopped ad in Monitor mode)	$0.0015 per ad ($1.50 per 1,000)
Ad text extracted (only ads whose headline or description was really read)	$0.002 per ad (+$2 per 1,000)
Domain / advertiser checked (Check mode, and one summary row per target in Monitor mode)	$0.003 each ($3 per 1,000)

plus a small per-run start fee shown on the Pricing tab. Platform usage is included.

Examples: 1,000 ads = $1.50; the same 1,000 ads with ad text for every ad = $3.50 at most (text is never charged when it could not be read); checking 1,000 domains = $3; a daily monitor of 10 competitors with about 5 changes each = 10 x $0.003 + 50 x $0.0015 = about $0.11 per day.

What is never charged: invalid domains, domains that failed (rows with status: "error"), empty or blocked responses, duplicates (the same ad found twice in one run), ads beyond your maximum cost per run, and ad text that could not be extracted. The Actor checks your cost limit before every batch and stops softly with a note in OUTPUT.

Filters

• Region - ads shown in one of 40 countries, or anywhere.
• Platform - Google Search, YouTube, Shopping, Play or Maps.
• Ad format - text, image or video.
• Dates (dateFrom / dateTo) - ads shown within the period (not used in Monitor mode).
• Max ads per domain - reads the newest ads first; the Transparency Center lists up to thousands of ads for big advertisers.

For domains, the Transparency Center returns ads shown for that website (the ad's landing/display domain), which may belong to several advertisers - an agency, a reseller, a partner. Use the advertiserId of a row to follow one exact advertiser, or pass Advertiser IDs directly.

Monitoring: new and stopped ads

Set Mode = Monitor and add a schedule (daily or weekly).

1. First run = baseline. The Actor saves the ads that are running now, returns one monitorSummary row per domain (changeType: "baseline") and charges only the check. No ad rows.
2. Later runs return ad rows with changeType: "new" (an ad that was not there before) or "stopped" (an ad that was running at the last run and has not been shown for more than 3 days), plus one monitorSummary row per domain with the counts.
3. A domain that fails (Google blocked, timeout) keeps its old state untouched and is reported with status: "error" - nothing is falsely reported as new or stopped, nothing is charged.
4. If your maximum cost per run stops a run early, the changes that did not fit are not lost: they stay out of the saved state and the next run reports them (the target's note in OUTPUT says how many).

State is kept in a named key-value store of your account, one record per domain. It belongs to this exact list of domains/advertisers plus region, platform and format: changing the list starts a new baseline, so use one saved task per list. Raise Max ads per domain for advertisers with thousands of ads - the scan reads newest ads first and the OUTPUT warns when the cap cut it short. Ads that were first shown long before the previous run and were outside an earlier capped scan are learned silently, not reported as new.

Ad text (best effort)

Turn on Extract ad text to read headline, description, long headline, button text, visible URL and landing URL from Google's ad preview.

• Google rate limits the preview server hard: about 15-20 previews per minute without a proxy. The Actor goes one at a time, waits and retries on HTTP 429 / 403, and stops extracting for the rest of the run if Google keeps refusing (adTextStatus: "rate_limited") or the preview server keeps failing (adTextStatus: "error"). The ad rows are still saved and charged only as ads.
• Text ads are often archived by Google as pictures - they have no text to read (adTextStatus: "no_text", imageUrl is set). Video and discovery ads usually have text.
• You are never charged for ad text that was not extracted. adTextStatus is ok, no_text, rate_limited, error, or not_requested (also for the stopped ads of Monitor mode, which never get ad text).
• With a proxy configured previews are requested through a new IP each time, which is much faster.

Use with Google Maps Scraper

Scrape businesses with a Google Maps scraper, take the website column and pass it to Domains in Check mode: you get a yes/no "runs Google Ads" for every business, a strong buying signal for agencies. In Make, n8n or Zapier: Maps scraper -> Iterator -> Google Ads Transparency Scraper -> filter advertises = true -> CRM.

API, MCP and automation

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<USERNAME>~google-ads-transparency-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode":"check","domains":["hubspot.com","shopify.com"]}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("<USERNAME>/google-ads-transparency-monitor").call(run_input={"mode": "ads", "domains": ["hubspot.com"], "maxAdsPerDomain": 100})
for ad in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(ad["advertiserName"], ad["format"], ad["lastShown"], ad["adUrl"])

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('<USERNAME>/google-ads-transparency-monitor').call({"mode":"monitor","domains":["hubspot.com"],"maxAdsPerDomain":500});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

The Actor works with the Apify MCP server, so AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) can ask "does example.com advertise on Google?" directly. Results also go to Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack or your CRM through Make, Zapier and n8n integrations. Every run saves OUTPUT (counts, charged events, invalid inputs, skipped items, warnings) and RESULTS_MD (a short Markdown summary) to the key-value store.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? Is it legal? From the public Google Ads Transparency Center, which Google publishes so anyone can see who advertises. No login is used and no personal data beyond what Google publishes about advertisers. This is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Google. You are responsible for using the data in line with the law and Google's terms.

Does a domain with no ads cost anything? In Check and Monitor modes the check itself is charged ($0.003) because the answer "no ads" is the result; in Ads mode nothing is charged when there are no ads. Failed lookups are never charged.

Why do I get fewer ads than the "3,000-4,000" in the check? Google reports a range for large advertisers; the Actor reads up to Max ads per domain, newest first (up to 10,000 per domain). The count range in domainCheck is Google's own.

Can I get ads of one exact company only? Yes: use its Advertiser ID, or run a domain once and take the advertiserId of the rows you want. Advertiser names are matched by text (up to 5 advertisers per name), so IDs are more precise.

What is "region"? The country filter of the Transparency Center: ads that were shown in that country. "Anywhere" returns all regions.

What does "stopped" mean? The ad's last impression is more than 3 days old. Google shows the date of the last impression, not an explicit end date.

Why is isActive false for an old ad? isActive means shown within the last 2 days of the run.

Does it use proxies? Not normally. If Google blocks direct requests, the Actor switches to Apify datacenter proxy automatically for the rest of the run (proxy: "fallback" in OUTPUT). You can set your own proxy in the input.

Something is missing or broken? Open an issue in the Issues tab. The Transparency Center is an internal Google interface that can change without notice; the Actor fails safe (errors, never wrong or charged data).

Changelog and support

See CHANGELOG.md. Questions and feature requests: Issues tab of this Actor.

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