# Google Ads Transparency Scraper (`dami_studio/google-ads-transparency-scraper`) Actor

Extract public Google Ads Transparency Center creatives by advertiser domain. Returns real advertiser IDs, creative IDs, formats, dates, previews, and landing domains through Google's public endpoint.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dami\_studio/google-ads-transparency-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Dami's Studio](https://apify.com/dami_studio) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.80 / 1,000 google ad creatives

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Google Ads Transparency Scraper

Extract public Google Ads Transparency Center creatives by advertiser domain. The actor calls Google's public `SearchService/SearchCreatives` endpoint directly, returns only records received from Google, and does not require a Google account, API key, or customer credentials.

### What it returns

Each successful dataset item contains the advertiser ID and name, creative ID, format, first and last shown dates, landing domain, preview image or preview content URL, and a reproducible public creative URL. A blocked, empty, or malformed response is written as a diagnostic row and is never charged.

### Input

```json
{
  "domains": ["nike.com"],
  "maxAdsPerTarget": 100,
  "fallbackToProxy": false
}
```

`startUrls` may also contain ordinary website URLs. Direct traffic is always tried first. Proxy fallback is opt-in because the live public endpoint worked directly during the candidate validation. Google advertiser URLs containing only an `AR...` identifier are not treated as a website domain.

### Candidate pricing

Closest qualifying benchmark found July 26, 2026: Automation Lab at about `$0.001/ad`; SolidCode's listing is about `$0.0015/ad`. The proposed candidate event is **`ad-result: $0.0008` per successful creative**, with no start charge. This is 20% below the `$0.001` benchmark. After Apify's 20% platform fee, proceeds are `$0.00064/ad`; the direct HTTP path has no residential proxy cost and uses low-memory compute, so a positive margin is defensible for normal direct traffic. Proxy fallback should remain opt-in and should be re-benchmarked before any pricing change.

This directory is a private candidate only. It has not been pushed, priced, or published.

### Validation

The live smoke test queried `nike.com` directly and returned real Google records, including advertiser IDs, creative IDs, formats, date ranges, and preview URLs. The Google page also rendered Tesla's public advertiser page with `~3K ads` and 80 loaded creative cards in the browser during validation.

### Limitations

Google does not publish a stable documented Ads Transparency API. This actor uses the public endpoint used by the public site, so endpoint/schema changes can require maintenance. It does not invent ad copy or spend data and does not bypass authentication or CAPTCHA.

# Actor input Schema

## `domains` (type: `array`):

Public advertiser domains to search, such as nike.com. Domains are normalized and deduplicated.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Website URLs whose host should be searched as an advertiser domain. Use domains for direct control; Google advertiser URLs containing only an AR ID are not used as domain inputs.

## `maxAdsPerTarget` (type: `integer`):

Maximum real creative records returned for each domain. The actor stops at this bound and does not charge diagnostics.

## `fallbackToProxy` (type: `boolean`):

After a direct request is blocked or rate limited, retry through the supplied Apify Proxy configuration. Direct traffic is always tried first.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional Apify Proxy configuration used only when direct traffic fails and fallbackToProxy is enabled.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxAdsPerTarget": 100,
  "fallbackToProxy": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dami_studio/google-ads-transparency-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dami_studio/google-ads-transparency-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call dami_studio/google-ads-transparency-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=dami_studio/google-ads-transparency-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/c9U1R0jHUu6pQwN71/builds/IqayvHCUNeH0pvDni/openapi.json