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Google Ads Transparency ads by advertiser

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

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
  • Status: Beta. Built and tested against recorded responses; the shape may still gain fields.
  • 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#

NameTypeRequiredDescription
idstringone ofAdvertiser id (AR...). Also accepted as advertiser_id, advertiserId.
domainstringone ofAdvertiser's website domain.
topicstringnoAll ads or political ads. Political needs a region. One of all, political.
platformstringnoWhere the ad ran. One of google_maps, google_play, google_search, google_shopping, youtube.
formatstringnoCreative format. One of all, text, image, video.
start_datestringnoAds shown from this date, YYYY-MM-DD.
end_datestringnoAds 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).

curl
curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/google/ad-library/company/ads" \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "id=AR16735076323512287233" \
  --data-urlencode "platform=youtube" \
  --data-urlencode "region=US"
Python
import os
import requests

params = {
    "id": "AR16735076323512287233",
    "platform": "youtube",
    "region": "US",
}
res = requests.get(
    "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/google/ad-library/company/ads",
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},
    params=params,
)
body = res.json()

if body["ok"]:
    print(body["data"])
else:
    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])
TypeScript
const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/google/ad-library/company/ads");
url.search = new URLSearchParams({
  "id": "AR16735076323512287233",
  "platform": "youtube",
  "region": "US"
}).toString();
const res = await fetch(url, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },
});
const body = await res.json();

if (body.ok) {
  console.log(body.data);
} else {
  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);
}
n8n
{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "name": "SocialScrape Google Ads Transparency ads by advertiser",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "typeVersion": 4.2,
      "position": [
        0,
        0
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "method": "GET",
        "url": "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/google/ad-library/company/ads",
        "sendQuery": true,
        "queryParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "id",
              "value": "AR16735076323512287233"
            },
            {
              "name": "platform",
              "value": "youtube"
            },
            {
              "name": "region",
              "value": "US"
            }
          ]
        },
        "sendHeaders": true,
        "headerParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "x-api-key",
              "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "connections": {}
}

Example response#

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

{
  "ok": true,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "cached": false,
  "cached_at": null,
  "request_id": "req_54daf7d2f10a025e49047c46",
  "data": {
    "object": "list",
    "items": [
      {
        "object": "ad",
        "platform": "google",
        "id": "CR15282208055438082049",
        "url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/creative/CR15282208055438082049",
        "advertiser": {
          "object": "advertiser",
          "platform": "google",
          "id": "AR16735076323512287233",
          "name": "Nike, Inc.",
          "url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233",
          "page_id": null,
          "country": null,
          "verified": null,
          "ad_count": null,
          "extra": null
        },
        "status": "unknown",
        "started_at": "2026-02-16T22:01:29Z",
        "ended_at": null,
        "title": null,
        "body": null,
        "cta_text": null,
        "landing_url": null,
        "format": "video",
        "media": {
          "thumbnail_url": null,
          "video_url": null,
          "audio_url": null,
          "image_urls": null,
          "width": null,
          "height": null
        },
        "regions": null,
        "publisher_platforms": null,
        "impressions": null,
        "spend": null,
        "extra": {
          "last_shown_at": "2026-08-11T20:43:40Z",
          "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...",
          "region_count": 177
        }
      },
      {
        "object": "ad",
        "platform": "google",
        "id": "CR12425799991778344961",
        "url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/creative/CR12425799991778344961",
        "advertiser": {
          "object": "advertiser",
          "platform": "google",
          "id": "AR16735076323512287233",
          "name": "Nike, Inc.",
          "url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233",
          "page_id": null,
          "country": null,
          "verified": null,
          "ad_count": null,
          "extra": null
        },
        "status": "unknown",
        "started_at": "2026-02-16T22:02:36Z",
        "ended_at": null,
        "title": null,
        "body": null,
        "cta_text": null,
        "landing_url": null,
        "format": "video",
        "media": {
          "thumbnail_url": null,
          "video_url": null,
          "audio_url": null,
          "image_urls": null,
          "width": null,
          "height": null
        },
        "regions": null,
        "publisher_platforms": null,
        "impressions": null,
        "spend": null,
        "extra": {
          "last_shown_at": "2026-08-11T20:43:40Z",
          "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...",
          "region_count": 177
        }
      }
    ],
    "cursor": null,
    "has_more": false,
    "parent": {
      "object": "advertiser",
      "platform": "google",
      "id": "AR16735076323512287233",
      "name": "Nike, Inc.",
      "url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233",
      "page_id": null,
      "country": null,
      "verified": null,
      "ad_count": 12,
      "extra": null
    }
  },
  "cursor": null,
  "has_more": false
}

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.

CodeHTTPRetryMeaning
invalid_params400noA parameter is missing, unknown or has the wrong type.
not_found404noThe 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.