How to Scrape Google Ads Transparency — Free No-Code Guide (2026)

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If you need to pull Google Ads Transparency data at scale and there's no clean official API, this guide shows how to export it to JSON, CSV or Excel in a couple of minutes — with no scraping code to maintain.

We'll use the Google Ads Transparency Scraper - Competitor Ads, a hosted scraper on the Apify platform. You only need a free Apify token — no Google Ads Transparency login, no proxies, no reverse-engineering.

What data you get

Each run returns structured records with fields like:

advertiserName
advertiserDomain
format
surface
firstShown
lastShown
variationCount
previewUrl
adUrl
imageUrl
imageWidth
imageHeight
iframeUrl
impressionsRange

Results are paginated automatically — you can pull thousands of rows per run and export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, JSONL or XML.

Option 1 — No code (Apify Console)

Open the actor: https://apify.com/logiover/google-ads-transparency-scraper
Click Try for free.
Leave the input empty for a broad sample, or set the fields below.
Run it, then Export the dataset as CSV/JSON/Excel.

Option 2 — Node.js

npm install google-ads-transparency-scraper

const scrape = require("google-ads-transparency-scraper");

(async () => {
  const items = await scrape({}, { token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
  console.log(items.length, "results");
  console.log(items[0]);
})();

Option 3 — Python

pip install apify-google-ads-transparency-scraper

from google_ads_transparency_scraper import scrape

items = scrape({}, token="YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
print(len(items), "results")
print(items[0])

Grab a free token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Input options

Field	Type	What it does
`mode`	string	Search Mode
`domains`	array	Advertiser Domains
`advertiserIds`	array	Advertiser IDs
`advertiserNames`	array	Advertiser Names
`regions`	array	Regions
`creativeFormats`	array	Ad Formats
`maxAdsPerTarget`	integer	Max Ads Per Target
`maxAds`	integer	Max Ads (Global)
`enrichDetails`	boolean	Enrich With Detail Data
`proxyConfiguration`	object	Proxy configuration

Common use cases

Build a fresh Google Ads Transparency dataset for analysis or dashboards
Feed Google Ads Transparency records into your own app, CRM or spreadsheet
Monitor changes on a schedule and get alerts via webhooks
Enrich leads or research with up-to-date Google Ads Transparency data

Automation & export

Because it runs on Apify, you can schedule it, trigger it via webhook, and pipe results into Google Sheets, S3, Zapier, Make or n8n. Every run's dataset is downloadable as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel or XML.