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Google Ads Transparency Scraper & New Ad Alerts

Your competitors’ Google ads from Google’s public Ads Transparency Center as clean, structured data: the words of text ads, images, videos, countries and impressions. It can also watch advertisers for you and send every new ad straight to Slack, Discord, a webhook or your inbox.

Try it on Apify Store See ready-made examples
  • $1.50 per 1,000 ads
  • No start fee
  • Search ad text as headline and description
  • Alerts to Slack, Discord, webhook or e-mail

Ready-made examples

Each example is a saved configuration you can open on Apify Store, run as it is, or change to your competitors.

What you get

Ad copy as text, not as a picture
Google shows search ads only as images. The Actor reads them in the language of the region and returns headline, description and display URL as separate fields you can search and compare.
Alerts built in
Switch on “only new ads”, add a Slack, Discord, webhook or e-mail target and a schedule. Each alert lists the new ads with headline and link. An alert that could not be delivered is sent again with the next run, and runs without new ads cost nothing. Our guide to tracking competitors’ Google ads explains the approach.
Start from what you know
A domain, a company name, an advertiser ID or a Transparency Center link all work. A name finds every account of that company, whatever its legal form.
More per ad
Countries with first and last day shown, impressions per country and platform, topic, number of variations, product titles of Shopping ads, and title and channel of YouTube ads.
Runs that finish
When Google blocks requests, the Actor moves them to residential proxy IPs by itself and goes back to the direct connection once the block has passed. No proxy setup, and the proxy traffic is included in the price.
Made for people and AI agents
Export to CSV, Excel or Google Sheets, read results through the API, or add the Actor to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor as a tool with one URL: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=layerwiselabs/google-ads-transparency-monitor

Questions

What does it cost?

$1.50 per 1,000 ads returned, with text, images, regions and impressions included. Platform usage and proxies are included too, there is no start fee, and monitoring runs that find no new ads are free. 100 ads of one competitor cost $0.15, and daily monitoring of 10 competitors that launch 5 new ads a week each costs about $0.32 a month.

Why does the first monitoring run return no ads?

It records the advertiser’s current ads as the starting point, so you are not alerted about hundreds of old ads. That first run is free. Every later run returns only the ads that are new.

How exact is the text of text ads?

Headline, description and display URL come out correctly in the vast majority of cases. Every ad also links the original image, so you can always check it.

Is it allowed to collect these ads?

The Ads Transparency Center is public: Google publishes these ads so that anyone can see them. The Actor collects only this public information about advertisers and their ads, no personal data of users.

See your competitors’ ads in a minute

Free Apify accounts include $5 of credit every month, enough for more than 3,000 ads. Need a custom report or an integration into your own tools? Write to hello@layerwiselabs.com.

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