Google Ads Transparency Scraper | Bulk Ads

Compare the ads your competitors publish on Google. Add company domains or advertiser IDs, choose countries and surfaces, and export one record per unique creative found in the run. Use the dataset for campaign reviews and repeatable ad-library snapshots. Public previews, dates, impression ranges and other details depend on what Google makes available; this is not a source of private spend or campaign performance.

Best first run: open the Google Ads Transparency Scraper, use the published Nike example, and keep the run capped at three creatives. This gives you a quick competitor-ad sample before you commit to a larger crawl.

Creative result prices per 1,000: Free $20, Bronze $18, Silver $16, Gold/Platinum/Diamond $14. Optional creative details have no extra per-creative fee. Actor start is $0.00005 per GB of memory, minimum one event. Check the Pricing tab for your exact plan rate and current platform-usage treatment.

Workflow: compare competitor Google ads

1. Open the public Nike starter to inspect a small, capped sample. Replace its domain with one advertiser you want to research.
2. Check creative IDs and preview links before adding more advertisers, countries or surfaces. Optional details depend on public availability.
3. Export the results and save dated snapshots. Compare creative IDs between snapshots in your own reporting workflow; deduplication within a run does not create a cross-run change detector.

Start with the $0.05 cap in the published example. At the Free base rate, two creative results cost $0.04 plus the start event; plan discounts reduce the creative fee. A cap is a maximum, not a promise of a particular number of results.

Best for

• Comparing a competitor’s visible creatives across countries and Google surfaces
• Building a small, repeatable ad-library snapshot before a campaign review
• Exporting deduplicated creative links and public timing/impression signals to a dashboard

What you can do

• Research one or many advertisers by domain, advertiser ID, or public Transparency Center URL.
• Compare visible creatives across selected countries and Google surfaces.
• Build recurring competitor-ad archives for dashboards, alerts, or internal analysis.
• Export a clean record for every unique creative found in a run.

Quick start

{
  "targets": ["google.com"],
  "regions": ["US"],
  "maxCreativesPerTarget": 3,
  "includeCreativeDetails": false
}

Use an advertiser ID beginning with AR, a company domain, or a public Google Ads Transparency Center advertiser or search URL. Add up to 100 targets to a run.

Ready-to-run presets

Fast brand validation:

{
  "targets": ["nike.com"],
  "regions": ["US"],
  "surfaces": ["ALL"],
  "maxCreativesPerTarget": 25,
  "includeCreativeDetails": false
}

Compare a brand across markets:

{
  "targets": ["nike.com"],
  "regions": ["US", "GB", "DE"],
  "surfaces": ["ALL"],
  "maxCreativesPerTarget": 100,
  "includeCreativeDetails": true
}

Focus on YouTube creatives:

{
  "targets": ["nike.com", "adidas.com"],
  "regions": ["US"],
  "surfaces": ["YOUTUBE"],
  "maxCreativesPerTarget": 50,
  "includeCreativeDetails": false
}

Choose your coverage

Select one or more supported markets from the input dropdown: Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Search all available surfaces or limit the result set to Google Search or YouTube. Leave the default ALL value for broad competitor research.

Pricing and run budget

At the current base price, each saved creative costs $0.02 ($20 per 1,000 creatives). A small run-start fee of $0.00005 per allocated GB of memory also applies, with a minimum of one event. Discounts, when available, are shown in the Console.

Start with the three-creative example above and a $0.10 maximum run charge. Its result fees are at most $0.06 before discounts, plus the run-start fee. Set the spending limit in the Console or pass maxTotalChargeUsd when starting through the API. The Actor checks affordable result capacity before collecting more creatives and stops when that capacity is filled. Empty searches and source errors do not become paid creative rows.

What each result contains

Each dataset item represents one unique public creative. It can include:

Field	Description
Advertiser	The public advertiser name and ID.
Creative	Creative ID, detected format, preview links, and the public source link.
Timing and reach	First/last shown dates and impression range when Google makes them available.
Targeting signals	Publicly displayed high-level targeting indicators, when available.
Coverage	The selected markets and Google surfaces where the creative was returned.
Run context	Your matched target, observation time, and whether extra creative details were available.

Google does not publish every field for every creative. Empty fields mean that information was not available in the public record at collection time.

Unavailable impression bounds are null; if neither bound is available, impressionRange is null. Missing targeting flags are omitted. A zero impression count or a false targeting flag is exported only when the public source explicitly supplies that value.

Example output

{
  "advertiserId": "AR1234567890",
  "advertiserName": "Example Brand",
  "creativeId": "123456789",
  "creativeType": "Video",
  "previewUrls": ["https://example.com/public-preview"],
  "firstShown": "2026-01-10",
  "lastShown": "2026-08-01",
  "impressionRange": {"min": "10K", "max": "100K"},
  "regions": ["US"],
  "surfaces": ["YOUTUBE"],
  "sourceUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR1234567890/creative/123456789",
  "queryTargets": ["example.com"],
  "detailStatus": "not_requested"
}

The exact public fields vary by creative and market; an empty optional field means Google did not expose it for that record.

Plan large runs confidently

maxCreativesPerTarget controls how many distinct creatives are collected for each target. Start with 25 and disable creative details for a fast validation run, then increase up to 1,000 and enable details when you need broader coverage.

Creatives are deduplicated across targets, markets, and surfaces within the same run. One stored result is one unique creative; only saved unique creatives count toward result pricing.

Useful workflows

• Competitor creative tracking: run the same advertiser list regularly and compare newly observed creatives with prior exports.
• Agency research: gather a multi-brand creative sample before a pitch or campaign review.
• Market comparisons: run the same targets in several countries to understand where ads are publicly visible.
• Creative inventory: export source links and preview URLs for a review queue or reporting dashboard.

Notes

This Actor only collects information available through Google’s public Ads Transparency Center. Public availability, field coverage, and search results can change over time, so a target may return fewer records or no records in a given market. It does not access advertising accounts or private campaign data.

Troubleshooting

• A domain returns no creatives: retry with the advertiser’s public Transparency Center URL or advertiser ID, and check another market.
• The run is slow or expensive: start with 25 creatives, one market, and includeCreativeDetails: false; expand only after the target is confirmed.
• One target fails: inspect the run summary and keep the successful targets; the Actor fails only when every target is unreachable.
• A market is rejected: use one of the supported ISO country codes shown in the input form.

Related research workflows

• News Source Crawler — monitor articles and coverage around the brands you research.
• Social Media Finder Pro — discover public social profiles for advertisers, creators, or company usernames.
• Google Keyword Scraper Pro — compare public search interest before interpreting a creative change.

When includeCreativeDetails is enabled, creativeDetails retains available preview metadata per variation. Supported public text templates expose headline, body, visible_url and advertiser under textAdMetadata; image templates expose available copy and media under imageAdMetadata. Fields remain absent when Google does not supply them or a preview cannot be read. A visible domain is not a verified destination URL. Preview failures preserve the creative and its preview link.

Shopping image previews can expose a product headline, advertiser and verified image URL. They may contain no description or destination link; those fields are not inferred.