Google Ads Transparency Center and Ad Library Scraper

Pass competitor domains (monday.com, grammarly.com), brand names, Google Advertiser IDs (AR...), or Transparency URLs to extract active Google Search, Display, and YouTube ad creatives, verified advertiser legal entities, days active & evergreen status (30+ days), image and YouTube video assets, and optional EU Digital Services Act (DSA) country reach.

Key Capabilities

• 4 Input Formats in One Batch: Mix bare domains ("shopify.com"), brand names ("Notion"), Google Advertiser IDs ("AR05288677867637440513"), and direct /advertiser/AR.../creative/CR... URLs.
• Filter for Winning Evergreen Ads (minDaysActive): Set minDaysActive: 30 (or 60+) to skip short-lived A/B tests and isolate profitable Search, Display, and YouTube creatives that competitors keep funding month after month.
• Direct Media & Variation Extraction: Captures high-resolution simgad creative images, direct youtubeVideoIds / youtubeVideoUrls, ad copy snippets when served as text, and creative size variations (width × height) at $0 extra charge.
• Optional EU DSA & Country Reach (includeCountryReach): Enrich creatives with per-country impression windows (countryStats), countriesServed, and targetingSignals (demographics, geographic, contextual) disclosed under EU transparency rules.

Who Is This For?

• Performance Marketers & Paid Media Agencies: Benchmark competitor Google Search and YouTube creative angles, ad formats (TEXT, IMAGE, VIDEO), and longevity before launching new campaigns.
• Clay, n8n & B2B Outbound Teams: Enrich prospect domains to verify active Google Ads spend, uncover the company's verified legal entity (verifiedLegalName), and prioritize high-budget advertisers.
• Market & Brand Researchers: Track multi-country rollouts and regional impression footprints across US, UK, EU, and LATAM markets.

Input

{
  "queries": ["grammarly.com", "shopify.com"],
  "maxAdsPerQuery": 25,
  "region": "ANYWHERE",
  "adFormat": "ALL",
  "minDaysActive": 30,
  "extractAdCopy": true,
  "includeCountryReach": false
}

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
queries (required)	string[]	["monday.com", "linear.app"]	Company domains ("grammarly.com"), brand names ("Notion"), Advertiser IDs ("AR..."), or Transparency URLs.
maxAdsPerQuery	integer	25	Max ad creatives returned per query (1–5000), automatically paginated.
region	string	"ANYWHERE"	"ANYWHERE" or 2-letter ISO country code ("US", "GB", "DE", "FR", "NL", "CA", "AU", "ES", "PL", "BR", etc.).
adFormat	string	"ALL"	"ALL", "TEXT", "IMAGE", or "VIDEO".
minDaysActive	integer	0	Return only proven ads active for at least N days (e.g. 30 for evergreen winners).
startDate / endDate	string	""	Optional date window in YYYY-MM-DD format.
extractAdCopy	boolean	true	Extract creative variations, headlines/text snippets (when non-rasterized), banner imageUrls, and youtubeVideoIds ($0 extra).
includeCountryReach	boolean	false	Optional per-creative lookup for per-country reach (countriesServed, countryStats) and EU DSA impression/targeting disclosures.
maxAdvertisersPerBrand	integer	1	Number of matching advertiser accounts scraped when querying by plain brand name (1–10).
concurrency	integer	10	Parallel worker concurrency (1–30).
proxyConfiguration	object	undefined	Optional proxy configuration. Works out of the box without manual setup.

Output

Each creative is pushed to the default Dataset (JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet), and per-query totals are written to SUMMARY in the default Key-Value Store. Below is an untouched live output record for "grammarly.com":

{
  "query": "grammarly.com",
  "queryType": "domain",
  "status": "scraped",
  "advertiserId": "AR05288677867637440513",
  "advertiserName": "Superhuman Platform Inc.",
  "verifiedLegalName": "Superhuman Platform Inc.",
  "advertiserCountry": null,
  "advertiserUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR05288677867637440513",
  "creativeId": "CR10808800124013117441",
  "previewUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR05288677867637440513/creative/CR10808800124013117441",
  "targetDomain": "grammarly.com",
  "format": "VIDEO",
  "firstShownAt": "2026-08-21T22:10:18.000Z",
  "lastShownAt": "2026-11-03T18:06:52.000Z",
  "daysActive": 75,
  "isEvergreen": true,
  "headline": null,
  "description": null,
  "displayUrl": null,
  "callToAction": null,
  "textSnippets": [],
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a2nYw3gao7E/hqdefault.jpg"
  ],
  "youtubeVideoIds": [
    "a2nYw3gao7E"
  ],
  "youtubeVideoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2nYw3gao7E"
  ],
  "landingUrls": [],
  "variationsCount": 1,
  "variations": [
    {
      "headline": null,
      "description": null,
      "displayUrl": null,
      "callToAction": null,
      "textSnippets": [],
      "imageUrls": [
        "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a2nYw3gao7E/hqdefault.jpg"
      ],
      "youtubeVideoIds": [
        "a2nYw3gao7E"
      ],
      "landingUrls": [],
      "width": null,
      "height": null
    }
  ],
  "totalImpressionsMin": null,
  "totalImpressionsMax": null,
  "targetingSignals": null,
  "countriesServed": [],
  "countryStats": [],
  "error": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-03T19:36:38.247Z"
}

Pricing (Pay Per Event)

Queries with zero matching ads or invalid inputs cost $0, and creative asset extraction (extractAdCopy: true) is included in the base creative price.

Event	Title	Price	Charged When
actor-start	Actor start	$0.0005	Once per run
ad-scraped	Ad creative	$0.0018 ($1.80 / 1,000)	Per ad creative returned (includes variations, image URLs, YouTube video links, and days active)
country-reach-enriched	Regional reach report	$0.0012 ($1.20 / 1,000)	Only when includeCountryReach: true enriches a creative with regional/EU DSA reach data

• 1,000 ad creatives (includeCountryReach: false): $1.80 total (~2,750 ads/month covered by Apify's $5 Free plan credit).
• 1,000 ad creatives + regional/EU DSA reach (includeCountryReach: true): $3.00 total.
• Respects Apify's Maximum total charge cap and stops cleanly when reached.

API, Clay, n8n & MCP Integration

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/xenikii~google-ads-transparency-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries": ["grammarly.com", "monday.com"], "maxAdsPerQuery": 25, "minDaysActive": 30}'

• Clay / n8n Lead Scoring: Pass ["{{Domain}}"] with maxAdsPerQuery: 10 to check whether an account is actively running Google Search or YouTube campaigns and retrieve its verifiedLegalName.
• MCP (mcp.apify.com): Works directly inside Claude Desktop, Cursor, and AI research agents as xenikii/google-ads-transparency-scraper.

FAQ & Data Compliance

• Why are headline and description sometimes null on TEXT or VIDEO creatives? Google Ads Transparency Center renders many Search and Display creatives as archived simgad images (imageUrls) or unlisted YouTube videos (youtubeVideoUrls) rather than DOM text. When text strings are present in Google's payload, headline, description, and textSnippets are populated automatically; otherwise the full visual asset URL is returned in imageUrls / youtubeVideoUrls.
• When are totalImpressionsMin / totalImpressionsMax populated? Google discloses impression ranges and targeting category flags primarily for ads served in European Union / EEA member states under the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) when includeCountryReach: true is enabled.
• GDPR & Public Transparency Compliance: This Actor retrieves publicly mandated corporate advertising disclosures published on Google Ads Transparency Center (including EU DSA transparency records). It collects zero personal user data (PII), zero end-user browsing data, and zero cookies tied to individuals.

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