Google Ads Scraper: Google Ads Transparency Center

Get every Google ad a competitor runs, from a domain, brand name or advertiser ID: creative ID, format, preview image, first and last shown dates, days running. Filter by country, platform, format and dates. Only-new-ads mode for scheduled alerts. Pay only per ad found.

Try it on Apify

Typical uses

Competitor ad monitoring: which ads a competitor runs right now, since when, and in which format. Turn on Only new ads and schedule the run to get only newly launched ads each day or week.
Creative research: collect text, image and video ads of a brand or a whole market, with preview images, to see what works (long-running ads are usually the winners: sort by `daysRunning`).
Agency prospecting (ad check): check which prospects advertise on Google, and how much (`totalAdsApprox`). Set `maxAdsPerTarget` to 1 for one row per advertiser.
Brand protection: find other advertisers sending ads to your domain (resellers, affiliates, agencies).
Automations and AI agents: feed n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets or an MCP client with structured JSON.

Pricing

Pay per use, no subscription, no monthly fee. The price depends on your Apify plan. Apify's free plan includes $5 of usage every month.

You pay per	Free plan	Starter	Scale	Business
Ad One ad creative returned with its details (advertiser, format, preview image, first and last shown dates, days running, Transparency Center link). Advertisers with no ad return a free row.	$0.001	$0.0008	$0.0007	$0.0006
Advertiser search Charged once per domain, advertiser name or advertiser ID searched in the Google Ads Transparency Center, with or without ads found (covers the lookup, including resolving a name). Invalid inputs and duplicates are free.	$0.003	$0.003	$0.003	$0.003

Run it from your code

Get an API token in the Apify Console (Settings → Integrations), then:

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/plainrows~google-ads-transparency/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "targets": [
    "nike.com"
  ],
  "country": "ANY"
}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("plainrows/google-ads-transparency").call(run_input={'targets': ['nike.com'], 'country': 'ANY'})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row)

Use it in automations and AI agents

n8n, Make, Zapier: use the official Apify integration and pick the Actor plainrows/google-ads-transparency.
Get a Slack alert when competitors launch new Google ads (n8n workflow JSON)
MCP (Claude, Cursor, other AI agents): https://mcp.apify.com?tools=plainrows/google-ads-transparency

Full documentation, input options and output fields: https://apify.com/plainrows/google-ads-transparency