Google Ads Transparency ads by advertiser API

An advertiser's public ads by advertiser id or website domain: ids, previews and first and last shown dates when Google gives them.

GET /v1/google/ad-library/company/ads

An advertiser's public ads by advertiser id or website domain: ids, previews and first and last shown dates when Google gives them.

Cost: 1 credit
Cache: Results are kept up to 30 days; send max_age_days to reuse them for free.
Timeout: A request still running after about 25 seconds answers 202 with a job to poll (Batch and jobs).

Parameters#

Name	Type	Required	Description
`id`	string	one of	Advertiser id (AR...). Also accepted as `advertiser_id`, `advertiserId`.
`domain`	string	one of	Advertiser's website domain.
`topic`	string	no	All ads or political ads. Political needs a `region`. One of `all`, `political`.
`platform`	string	no	Where the ad ran. One of `google_maps`, `google_play`, `google_search`, `google_shopping`, `youtube`.
`format`	string	no	Creative format. One of `all`, `text`, `image`, `video`.
`start_date`	string	no	Ads shown from this date, YYYY-MM-DD.
`end_date`	string	no	Ads shown up to this date, YYYY-MM-DD.

Send at least one of id, domain. If you send several, the first listed is used and the rest are ignored.

Every request also accepts:

cursor: the cursor from the previous page (Pagination).
region: two-letter country code for results that vary by country. Changing it restarts the cursor chain.
trim: true for a smaller response without null fields and extra.
raw: true to also get the platform's original object as raw.
max_age_days: accept a cached result up to this many days old, for 0 credits (Caching).

Example request#

Set your key in the environment first (see Authentication).

1curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/google/ad-library/company/ads" \2  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \3  --data-urlencode "id=AR16735076323512287233" \4  --data-urlencode "platform=youtube" \5  --data-urlencode "region=US"

1import os2import requests34params = {5    "id": "AR16735076323512287233",6    "platform": "youtube",7    "region": "US",8}9res = requests.get(10    "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/google/ad-library/company/ads",11    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},12    params=params,13)14body = res.json()1516if body["ok"]:17    print(body["data"])18else:19    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])

1const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/google/ad-library/company/ads");2url.search = new URLSearchParams({3  "id": "AR16735076323512287233",4  "platform": "youtube",5  "region": "US"6}).toString();7const res = await fetch(url, {8  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },9});10const body = await res.json();1112if (body.ok) {13  console.log(body.data);14} else {15  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);16}

1{2  "nodes": [3    {4      "name": "SocialScrape Google Ads Transparency ads by advertiser",5      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",6      "typeVersion": 4.2,7      "position": [8        0,9        010      ],11      "parameters": {12        "method": "GET",13        "url": "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/google/ad-library/company/ads",14        "sendQuery": true,15        "queryParameters": {16          "parameters": [17            {18              "name": "id",19              "value": "AR16735076323512287233"20            },21            {22              "name": "platform",23              "value": "youtube"24            },25            {26              "name": "region",27              "value": "US"28            }29          ]30        },31        "sendHeaders": true,32        "headerParameters": {33          "parameters": [34            {35              "name": "x-api-key",36              "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"37            }38          ]39        }40      }41    }42  ],43  "connections": {}44}

Example response#

This is a sample from a recorded response, lists and long text are shortened. Status 200.

200 OKSample response

1{2  "ok": true,3  "credits_charged": 1,4  "credits_remaining": 4999,5  "cached": false,6  "cached_at": null,7  "request_id": "req_54daf7d2f10a025e49047c46",8  "data": {9    "object": "list",10    "items": [11      {12        "object": "ad",13        "platform": "google",14        "id": "CR15282208055438082049",15        "url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/creative/CR15282208055438082049",16        "advertiser": {17          "object": "advertiser",18          "platform": "google",19          "id": "AR16735076323512287233",20          "name": "Nike, Inc.",21          "url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233",22          "page_id": null,23          "country": null,24          "verified": null,25          "ad_count": null,26          "extra": null27        },28        "status": "unknown",29        "started_at": "2026-02-16T22:01:29Z",30        "ended_at": null,31        "title": null,32        "body": null,33        "cta_text": null,34        "landing_url": null,35        "format": "video",36        "media": {37          "thumbnail_url": null,38          "video_url": null,39          "audio_url": null,40          "image_urls": null,41          "width": null,42          "height": null43        },44        "regions": null,45        "publisher_platforms": null,46        "impressions": null,47        "spend": null,48        "extra": {49          "last_shown_at": "2026-08-11T20:43:40Z",50          "preview_url": "https://displayads-formats.googleusercontent.com/ads/preview/content.js?client=ads-integrity-transparency&obfuscatedCustomerId=8804020668&creativeId=797296816243&uiFeatures=12,54&versionId=29&assets=%3DH4sIAAAAAAAAAOPi5uLkOLbjectuJgFGANEYnf...",51          "region_count": 17752        }53      },54      {55        "object": "ad",56        "platform": "google",57        "id": "CR12425799991778344961",58        "url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/creative/CR12425799991778344961",59        "advertiser": {60          "object": "advertiser",61          "platform": "google",62          "id": "AR16735076323512287233",63          "name": "Nike, Inc.",64          "url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233",65          "page_id": null,66          "country": null,67          "verified": null,68          "ad_count": null,69          "extra": null70        },71        "status": "unknown",72        "started_at": "2026-02-16T22:02:36Z",73        "ended_at": null,74        "title": null,75        "body": null,76        "cta_text": null,77        "landing_url": null,78        "format": "video",79        "media": {80          "thumbnail_url": null,81          "video_url": null,82          "audio_url": null,83          "image_urls": null,84          "width": null,85          "height": null86        },87        "regions": null,88        "publisher_platforms": null,89        "impressions": null,90        "spend": null,91        "extra": {92          "last_shown_at": "2026-08-11T20:43:40Z",93          "preview_url": "https://displayads-formats.googleusercontent.com/ads/preview/content.js?client=ads-integrity-transparency&obfuscatedCustomerId=8804020668&creativeId=797296784374&uiFeatures=12,54&versionId=32&assets=%3DH4sIAAAAAAAAAOPi5uLkOLbjectuJgFGANEYnf...",94          "region_count": 17795        }96      }97    ],98    "cursor": null,99    "has_more": false,100    "parent": {101      "object": "advertiser",102      "platform": "google",103      "id": "AR16735076323512287233",104      "name": "Nike, Inc.",105      "url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233",106      "page_id": null,107      "country": null,108      "verified": null,109      "ad_count": 12,110      "extra": null111    }112  },113  "cursor": null,114  "has_more": false115}

Response#

A list of Ad objects in data.items, with data.cursor and data.has_more.

See Data models for every field. The envelope around data is described in Responses.

Errors#

Failures are free: credits_charged is 0. Branch on error.code, never on the message.

Code	HTTP	Retry	Meaning
`invalid_params`	400	no	A parameter is missing, unknown or has the wrong type.
`not_found`	404	no	The platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.

Every request can also fail with the account and platform errors listed on the Errors page.

Also served at#

These paths answer the same request, so code written for other APIs keeps working: /v1/google/company/ads. See Switching from ScrapeCreators.

Google Ads Transparency advertiser search (GET /v1/google/ad-library/advertisers/search)
Google Ads Transparency ad details (GET /v1/google/ad-library/ad)