/google/ads

POST /api/google/ads

Price: 1 credit

Get full details of a single Google Ads Transparency Center ad creative by URL or advertiser/creative composite. Returns advertiser, format, regions, image/video/preview, and for political ads — spend range, impressions, targeting, per-region statistics.

How to use it

Get one Google Ads Transparency ad by its URL (`https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/<AR>/creative/<CR>?region=US`) or by composite `<advertiser_id>/<creative_id>` (with an explicit region). Returns advertiser, format (text/image/video/html5), regions, last/first shown timestamps, image/preview/video URLs. Political ads also expose spend range, impressions, targeting demographics and per-region statistics.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• ad string required — Ad URL (`https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/<AR...>/creative/<CR...>?region=US`) or composite `<advertiser_id>/<creative_id>` (examples: "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR15828887856537501697/creative/CR05952545011697188865?region=US"; minLength: 1)
• region string nullable — ISO alpha-2 country code; overrides region in URL. Defaults to URL region or US. (one of: "US", "GB", "CA", "AU", "DE", "FR", "IT", "ES", "NL", "SE", "JP", "PL", "AT", "BE", "BR", "CH", "CZ", "DK", "FI", "GR", "HK", "HU", "IE", "IL", "IN", "KR", "MX", "MY", "NO", "NZ", "PH", "PR", "PT", "RO", "SG", "TH", "TR", "TW", "UA", "VI", "ZA"; examples: "US")

Response

• @type string (default: "GoogleAd")
• id string required
• advertiser_id string required
• advertiser_name string nullable
• topic string required (one of: "commercial", "political")
• format string required (one of: "text", "image", "video", "html5", "other")
• regions array (default: [])
• first_shown_at integer nullable
• last_shown_at integer nullable
• image string nullable
• video_url string nullable
• preview_url string nullable
• impressions_max integer nullable
• days_shown integer nullable
• total_days integer nullable
• spend_low number nullable
• spend_high number nullable
• currency string nullable
• targeting object nullable
  • @type string (default: "GoogleAdTargeting")
  • regions array (default: [])
  • age_min integer nullable
  • age_max integer nullable
  • genders array (default: [])
  • parental_status array (default: [])
• per_region array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "GoogleAdRegionStat")
  • region string required
  • impressions_max integer nullable
  • first_shown_date string nullable
  • last_shown_date string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — Ad not found. Verify the URL or advertiser_id+creative_id+region combination. Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.