List ads an advertiser runs on Google · Google Ads API
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`.
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curl https://api.unifapi.com/google-ads/advertisers/{id}/ads \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"Parameters
- idpathrequired
- Google Ads Transparency advertiser id (AR…).
- topicquery
- Optional topic filter. When `political`, `region` is required.
- regionquery
- Optional region filter as a two-letter country code.
- start_datequery
- Optional start date filter in YYYY-MM-DD format.
- end_datequery
- Optional end date filter in YYYY-MM-DD format.
- platformquery
- Optional Google surface filter.
- formatquery
- Optional creative format filter.
- cursorquery
- Opaque pagination cursor from a previous response's `pagination.next_cursor`. Omit for the first page.
- 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
- List-style responses return `data` as an array of top-level records plus optional `pagination` for continuation tokens or cursors.
- The operation has a 75 credits ($0.07) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
- If the workspace balance cannot cover every result, the response can be truncated and `billing.truncated_due_to_balance` tells the caller why.
Response status codes
Billing
This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 75 credits ($0.07) 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 on each record in data
A successful List ads an advertiser runs on Google call returns data as an array; each record carries these fields.
- advertiser_idstring | null
- Google Ad Transparency advertiser id.
- creative_idstring | null
- Google Ad Transparency creative id.
- formatstring | null
- Creative format when available (text, image, or video).
- ad_urlstring | null
- Public Google Ad Transparency URL for this creative when available.
- advertiser_namestring | null
- Advertiser display name when available.
- domainstring | null
- Advertiser domain when available.
- image_urlstring | null
- Preview image URL when available.
- 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; null when neither bound is reported.
- creative_regionsobject[]
- Regions where the creative ran, one entry per region. `region_code` is an upper-case two-letter code, or null when no valid code is reported. Empty when not reported.
- variationsobject[]
- Creative variations for this ad: headline, description, landing page and media. Destination URLs reported without a scheme are returned with `https://`. Empty when not reported.
More Google Ads operations
Combine endpoints from the same platform, then join the results with other UnifAPI categories without changing authentication or response parsing.
Get a Google ad by Transparency Center URL
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.
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.