Google Ads Transparency Scraper

See exactly what ads your competitors are running. This Actor pulls any advertiser's ads straight from Google's Ads Transparency Center — creatives, formats, the dates each ad first and last ran, and direct preview links — across Google Search, Display and YouTube. Search by brand name, website domain, or advertiser ID, filter by region, format and date. No account, no API key.

Perfect for competitive research, ad-creative inspiration, affiliate/dropshipping spying, and monitoring what a brand is promoting right now.

Features

• 🔎 Search by brand name — type "Nike"; the Actor resolves it to the right advertiser automatically
• 🌐 Search by domain — enter nike.com to get ads from every advertiser tied to that domain, including the brand's media agencies (broader than a name search)
• 🆔 Or by advertiser ID — pass exact AR… IDs to skip the lookup
• 🖼️ All formats, right asset — image ads return the creative image; text & video ads return the render URL; every ad gets a permalink
• 🎚️ Filter by format — image / text / video only
• 📅 Filter by date — only ads shown after / before a date you set
• 🌍 Region filter — ads shown in the US, GB, DE, IN, BR and 25+ more countries
• 📊 Bulk & paginated — pull up to thousands of ads per advertiser, de-duplicated

What you get

One record per ad creative:

{
  "advertiserName": "Nike, Inc.",
  "advertiserId": "AR16735076323512287233",
  "creativeId": "CR17005015292943794177",
  "format": "image",
  "formatCode": 1,
  "firstShown": "2022-11-30T15:28:09.000Z",
  "lastShown": "2026-07-22T10:22:58.000Z",
  "imageUrl": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/10365756016983535800",
  "renderUrl": null,
  "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/creative/CR17005015292943794177?region=US",
  "region": "US"
}

Text and video ads have imageUrl: null and a renderUrl (a Google-hosted URL that renders the actual ad).

Output schema

Input

{
  "advertiserNames": ["Nike"],
  "domains": ["hellofresh.com"],
  "region": "US",
  "adFormat": "all",
  "shownAfter": "2025-01-01",
  "maxAdsPerAdvertiser": 200
}

Use cases

• Competitor ad research — see every ad a rival brand is actively running
• Creative inspiration — build a swipe file of ads in your niche
• Affiliate / dropshipping — spot winning products and angles
• Brand monitoring — track when a competitor launches or retires campaigns

Pricing

Pay-per-event: a small amount per ad scraped. See the Pricing tab for current rates.

FAQ

Do I need an account or any setup? No setup and no login. Add advertiser names, domains or IDs, set your filters and run.

How many ads can I collect per advertiser? Use maxAdsPerAdvertiser to cap creatives per target, or leave it open to collect the full, de-duplicated set of ads available for each advertiser.

Can I search by brand, website or advertiser ID? Yes. Search by brand name, by website domain (returns ads from every advertiser tied to the domain) or by exact AR… advertiser IDs to skip the lookup.

What export formats are supported? Export your results as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or pull them via the Apify API.

Can I connect this to other apps and services? The Google Ads Transparency Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. It works with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Drive and many more, plus the Apify API, JavaScript/Python clients and MCP. Or use webhooks to trigger an action whenever a run finishes.

Notes

Uses the public Google Ads Transparency Center, which Google publishes for ad transparency. Returns Google's own transparency data as-is. This is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.

You pay only for what the run returns. Set a maximum cost per run and it stops cleanly at that limit.