# Google API

> Ads running on Google Search, YouTube, Maps, Play and Shopping, from Google's Ads Transparency Center.

- **Platform:** [Google](https://lurkapi.com/docs/google.md) (adstransparency.google.com)
- **Web page:** https://lurkapi.com/docs/google

## Overview

Find any advertiser in Google's public Ads Transparency Center, list every ad they run, and pull the detail of one ad. Great for competitor research on Google Ads and YouTube.

Source: adstransparency.google.com.

## Try it live

Pick an endpoint and run it: real data, no signup, 5 free requests a day.

Live playground: https://lurkapi.com/docs/google#try

## Endpoints

- [Search Google advertisers](https://lurkapi.com/docs/google/search-advertisers.md): Find an advertiser's Google Ads id by brand name, with how many ads they run, plus matching websites. (GET /v1/google/adLibrary/advertisers/search · 1 credit)
- [Google ads by company](https://lurkapi.com/docs/google/company-ads.md): Every ad an advertiser or website runs on Google Search, YouTube, Maps, Play and Shopping, from the Ads Transparency Center. (GET /v1/google/company/ads · 1 credit)
- [Google ad details](https://lurkapi.com/docs/google/ad.md): One ad from Google's Ads Transparency Center: every version of the creative, where it ran and, for political ads, spend and targeting. (GET /v1/google/ad · 1 credit)

## Call it

Every endpoint is a `GET` with your key in the `x-api-key` header. For example, [Search Google advertisers](https://lurkapi.com/docs/google/search-advertisers.md):

curl:

```bash
curl "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/google/adLibrary/advertisers/search?query=nike" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"
```

[Get a free API key](https://lurkapi.com/login?next=/dashboard)

## Use it in Claude

Once LurkAPI is [connected to Claude](https://lurkapi.com/docs.md#claude), each endpoint is a tool Claude can call:

| Tool | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `google_search_advertisers` | [Search Google advertisers](https://lurkapi.com/docs/google/search-advertisers.md): Find an advertiser's Google Ads id by brand name, with how many ads they run, plus matching websites. |
| `google_company_ads` | [Google ads by company](https://lurkapi.com/docs/google/company-ads.md): Every ad an advertiser or website runs on Google Search, YouTube, Maps, Play and Shopping, from the Ads Transparency Center. |
| `google_ad` | [Google ad details](https://lurkapi.com/docs/google/ad.md): One ad from Google's Ads Transparency Center: every version of the creative, where it ran and, for political ads, spend and targeting. |