~/business/google-ads-scraper

Google Ads Scraper — Search, YouTube & Shopping Ads

Every ad a competitor runs on Google — Search, YouTube, Shopping, Maps, and Play — found by domain, advertiser, or brand, with the days each ad ran, the countries it reached, and, for the EU, its impressions and audience targeting.

ad intelligence TypeScript Global

run on Apify

proooxy/google-ads-scraper — spec

categorybusiness / ad intelligence

languageTypeScript

stackTypeScript

marketsGlobal

outputclean, RAG-ready JSON

key features

Every ad an advertiser runs on Google Search, YouTube, Shopping, Maps, and Play

Look ads up by website domain, advertiser ID, brand name, or a copied page URL — mixed in one run

First and last day shown, and how many days each ad has run

The legal name Google verified for the advertiser, and where it is based

EU impression ranges by country and platform, and the audience criteria used — with details on

A text ad's headline, a Shopping ad's products, a video ad's YouTube video, and the landing page — with content on, charged only when found

Filters by country, platform, format, and date; a span such as 30 days moves with each scheduled run

use cases

Monitoring competitors' Google ads on a schedule, so new campaigns show up in the next run
Creative research across a market: the headlines, products, and videos advertisers keep running
Media planning with EU impression ranges by country and platform
Agency and brand-safety checks: which legal entities pay for ads that lead to a website
Lead generation: which companies advertise on Google, and since when
Giving AI agents competitor ad data through Apify's MCP server

input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`domains`	array	optional	Every ad that leads to these websites, from every advertiser running one
`advertiserIds`	array	optional	Every ad of these advertisers, by ID or advertiser page URL
`advertiserNames`	array	optional	A company or brand name; the advertiser holding that name with the most ads is searched
`startUrls`	array	optional	Advertiser, single-ad, or domain-search page URLs; filters in a URL apply to that URL
`region`	string	optional	Only ads shown in this country, or anywhere
`platform`	string	optional	Google Search, YouTube, Google Shopping, Google Maps, or Google Play
`adFormat`	string	optional	Text, image, or video
`dateFrom`	string	optional	Shown on or after a date, or a span back from today such as 30 days
`dateTo`	string	optional	Shown on or before a date; empty means today
`maxItems`	number	optional	Maximum ads stored — the hard cap on run spend
`maxAdsPerSearch`	number	optional	Stops each domain, advertiser, name, or URL after this many ads
`includeDetails`	boolean	optional	Countries, EU impression ranges, and audience criteria, charged per ad
`includeAdContent`	boolean	optional	Headlines, products, YouTube videos, and landing pages, charged only when found

Output Example

 1{
 2  "creativeId": "CR04380650295827365889",
 3  "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR18378488041124659201/creative/CR04380650295827365889?region=NL",
 4  "advertiserId": "AR18378488041124659201",
 5  "advertiserName": "Nike Retail BV",
 6  "advertiserLegalName": "Nike Retail BV",
 7  "advertiserCountry": "NL",
 8  "advertiserVerified": true,
 9  "format": "TEXT",
10  "firstShown": "2025-10-22T15:05:47.575Z",
11  "lastShown": "2026-09-28T13:07:21.342Z",
12  "daysShown": 342,
13  "region": "NL",
14  "queryType": "advertiserId",
15  "details": {
16    "euImpressions": { "min": 250000, "max": 300000 },
17    "audience": {
18      "demographicInfo": { "included": true, "excluded": false },
19      "geographicLocations": { "included": true, "excluded": false },
20      "contextualSignals": { "included": true, "excluded": false }
21    }
22  },
23  "content": {
24    "headline": "{KeyWord:Nike Vomero}",
25    "description": "Découvre {Keyword:chaussures Nike} sur Nike.com. Commande sur le site officiel Nike.",
26    "landingUrl": null
27  }
28}

Trimmed for length: with details on, details also lists every country the ad ran in, with its first and last day and, in the EU, impressions by platform; content also carries products, youtubeVideoId, and youtubeUrl.

Tips

Search the domain, not the brand name, for full coverage. A domain search returns every advertiser whose ads lead to the site — including the regional entities and resellers a brand name misses.
maxItems caps your spend. It is the hard ceiling on the ads a run stores and charges for; maxAdsPerSearch stops one large advertiser from using it all up.
Use a relative date for monitoring. Set dateFrom to 30 days on a scheduled run and every run covers the latest month.
Keyword-insertion placeholders are kept as Google stores them. A headline such as {KeyWord:Nike Vomero} shows the fallback text used when the search term doesn’t replace it.

faq

Do I need a Google account or an API key?

No. The ads come from Google's public ad library, which anyone can open without signing in. You run the Actor on Apify, and each ad is one row in the dataset.

Why does a brand name find only one advertiser?

Brands often advertise through several legal entities — Nike through Nike, Inc., Nike Retail BV, and others. A name finds the main one; search the brand's domain instead to get every advertiser whose ads lead there.

Why do some text ads have no headline?

Google archives many text ads as a picture of the ad. Those come with a preview image instead of a headline; headlines and descriptions come from the text ads Google shows live.

Where do the impression and audience figures come from?

Google publishes them for ads shown in the European Union, under the Digital Services Act, and counts impressions with a delay of about three months. Outside the EU, details give the countries an ad ran in and the days it ran there.