Get a Google ad by Transparency Center URL · Google Ads API
Returns one creative from the Google Ads Transparency Center by its public URL: advertiser, format, regions, run dates and creative assets. Returns `not_found` when the creative does not exist.
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curl https://api.unifapi.com/google-ads/ads?url= \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"
Parameters
- urlqueryrequired
- Public Google Ad Transparency URL for the creative.
- The parameter for this Google Ads operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.
This operation is part of the Google Ads API in the ad libraries category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.
Use it when a workflow needs Google Ads public data alongside SEO rankings or social data, but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract.
Common agent workflows
- Look up public Google Ads data for agents that need reliable open-web context.
- Give an AI agent a stable Google Ads data source without building a per-platform integration.
- Normalize Google Ads responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.
Unified envelope, platform-native fields
- Lookup responses return one canonical object in `data` with stable identifiers, source URLs where available, and platform-specific metadata normalized into predictable JSON.
- The operation has a 3 credits ($0.003) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
- A not-found or invalid-input condition uses the unified UnifAPI error shape, so callers do not need special handling for each source platform.
Response status codes
Billing
This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 3 credits ($0.003) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.
Errors and retries
Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.
Fields in the data object
A successful Get a Google ad by Transparency Center URL call returns one data object with these fields.
- advertiser_idstring | null
- Google Ad Transparency advertiser id.
- creative_idstring | null
- Google Ad Transparency creative id.
- urlstring | null
- Public Google Ad Transparency URL for this creative.
- formatstring | null
- Creative format when available (text, image, or video).
- first_shown_atnumber | null
- ISO-8601 timestamp for when the ad was first shown, when available. Unix seconds.
- last_shown_atnumber | null
- ISO-8601 timestamp for when the ad was last shown, when available. Unix seconds.
- overall_impressionsobject | null
- Overall impression range when available.
- creative_regionsobject[]
- Regions where the creative ran.
- region_statsobject[]
- Per-region impression and date stats.
- targetingobject | null
- Audience targeting when reported; otherwise null.
- variationsobject[]
- Creative variations for this ad.
More Google Ads operations
Combine endpoints from the same platform, then join the results with other UnifAPI categories without changing authentication or response parsing.
List ads an advertiser runs on Google
Returns ads from the Google Ads Transparency Center for one advertiser id, with region, platform, format, topic and date filters. Find advertiser ids with /google-ads/advertisers/search. Paginate with `cursor`.
Search Google Ads Transparency advertisers
Returns Google Ads Transparency Center advertisers and websites that match a name, with advertiser ids for /google-ads/advertisers/{id}/ads.