Google Ads Transparency Scraper

Google Ads Transparency Scraper: the ads a brand is running, by domain or advertiser

Give it a landing domain like nike.com, an advertiser name, an advertiser ID or a link from the Ads Transparency Center, and get one row per ad creative: the format, when Google first and last saw it serving, on how many days it served, and a link that opens the ad itself.

What it cannot give you, said up front: money. Google does not publish spend or budget anywhere in this archive. Impressions, where they exist at all, arrive as wide bands like "up to 1,000", per country, and only when you ask for them.

📣 What Google Ads Transparency Scraper does

The Ads Transparency Center is the public archive Google publishes of the ads running through its network. This reads it.

Four ways in. A domain catches every advertiser account pointing at it, which is the easiest start. A name is resolved to an advertiser ID first. An ID pins you to one entity. A link from the site works as pasted.

Two shapes of row. By default you get creatives. Switch listAdvertisersOnly on with a name and you get the matching advertisers instead, with their IDs, verified country and a rough ad-count band, which is how you find the right entity before spending anything.

Two optional extras. includeRegionStats adds the per-country breakdown: impression band, first and last shown dates, and the split across Search, YouTube, Maps, Shopping and Play. includeAdvertiserDetails adds the advertiser's verified legal name and country.

Creatives shared between two of your targets are deduplicated, so you are not billed twice for the same ad.

📥 What you give it

Fill in at least one of the first four.

{
  "advertiserDomains": ["nike.com"],
  "region": "US",
  "adFormat": "any",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Run it with everything empty and you get one labelled sample row so you can see the shape. That row is not charged.

📤 What you get back

A real creative row from a recent run:

{
  "ok": true,
  "resultType": "creative",
  "advertiserId": "AR16735076323512287233",
  "advertiserName": "Nike, Inc.",
  "creativeId": "CR02873317349904089089",
  "adFormat": "TEXT",
  "firstShownAt": "2023-11-16T23:33:36.273Z",
  "lastShownAt": "2026-09-14T05:20:11.033Z",
  "regionsShownCount": 900,
  "landingDomain": null,
  "previewImageUrl": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/17697651794169304493",
  "previewIframeUrl": null,
  "previewText": null,
  "creativeUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/creative/CR02873317349904089089?region=anywhere",
  "advertiserUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233?region=anywhere",
  "queriedBy": "advertiser:AR16735076323512287233",
  "region": "US",
  "position": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-14T05:43:17.330Z"
}

🧾 Reading the output

The Overview table shows previewImageUrl, which text ads usually carry, so video ads and most image ads look like they have no preview there. Read previewIframeUrl in the JSON for those.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Google Ads Transparency Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Put a landing domain into Advertiser domains, replacing the example. 3. Set Region to a country code if you want one market, and Max results to what you actually need. 4. Turn on Include per-region impressions only if you need the country breakdown, then click Start. 5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.60 per 1,000 ads, which is $0.0006 a row. The same rate on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

An advertiser row costs the same as a creative row. maxItems caps the total, so it also caps what a run can bill.

Not charged: the sample row, every diagnostic row, a target that turns out to have no ads, and creatives deduplicated across two of your targets.

💡 What people use it for

• Seeing what a competitor is putting money behind this week, and which creatives they keep.
• Judging what works for them: an ad that has been serving for two years is an ad that pays.
• Finding a company's other advertising entities, since one domain often sits under several verified

advertisers per market.

• Mapping which countries a campaign actually ran in, with includeRegionStats.

🚧 What it does not do

• No spend, no budgets. Google does not publish them. Impressions are wide bands and plenty of

ads carry none at all.

• No targeting criteria for political ads. Election ads show extra data in the site's own

interface; the rows here carry the same fields as any other ad.

• No ad copy as text, not even on text ads. Google keeps nearly every text ad as a picture of

it, so the headline and description are in the picture at previewImageUrl, not in a field you can search. Video and rich media come as the renderer link, not a transcript.

• regionsShownCount counts days, not places. It is how many days the ad served. Use

includeRegionStats when you need the countries.

• A creative permalink is found by scanning that advertiser's first maxItems creatives, so a

creative further down their list comes back as NO_ADS even though it exists. Raise maxItems, or query the advertiser instead.

• adFormat filters after reading, so asking for a rare format on a big advertiser takes a while.

It does not cost more, because you pay for rows that come back.

• One platform per search. Google narrows by a single platform at a time, so YouTube and Maps

together take two runs.

• It cannot find an advertiser who has never advertised on Google. An empty answer is a real

answer, and it is not charged.

🧭 Which Google scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Google account or an API key? No. The archive is public and there is nothing to sign in to.

How do I find an advertiser ID? Put the company name in advertiserNames and turn on listAdvertisersOnly. You get every matching advertiser with its ID and rough ad count.

Why do several advertisers come back for one domain? Large companies run separate accounts per market or per legal entity, and Google verifies each one. A domain catches all of them; an ID pins you to one.

Can I filter by country? Yes. region changes the result set, not just the labels, so the same advertiser returns very different counts for US and GB.

How fast is it? A 1,000-row run came back in about a minute when it was measured in August 2026. includeRegionStats adds a request per ad, so it slows things down noticeably.

Is scraping this legal? The Ads Transparency Center is published deliberately, for public inspection. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the domain or advertiser ID, the region and the run ID. The error code on the diagnostic row usually names the problem on its own.