Google ads by company

When to use this

Use it to study a competitor's Google and YouTube ads: formats, run dates and how long each ad has run. Pass a domain such as nike.com to get every advertiser promoting it, or an advertiser_id from search advertisers (google_search_advertisers).

Filter by region, platform, format and date range. topic=political lists election ads with their spend and impressions; it needs a region. For an ad's text, landing page and per-country stats, pass its ids to ad details (google_ad).

Pagination. Up to 100 ads per page. Pass cursor back with the same filters for the next page. It's null on the last page. Date ranges that start more than about a year ago come back empty.

Example request

Copy one and replace YOUR_API_KEY with your API key (get one free). The code versions read the key from the LURKAPI_API_KEY environment variable instead.

curl "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/google/company/ads?domain=nike.com&region=US" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  domain: "nike.com",
  region: "US",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/google/company/ads?${params}`, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.LURKAPI_API_KEY },
});
const data = await res.json();
if (!data.success) throw new Error(`${data.code}: ${data.error}`);
console.log(data.ads);

import os
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/google/company/ads",
    params={
        "domain": "nike.com",
        "region": "US",
    },
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["LURKAPI_API_KEY"]},
    timeout=60,
)
data = res.json()
if not data["success"]:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{data['code']}: {data['error']}")
print(data["ads"])

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
	"os"
	"time"
)

func main() {
	params := url.Values{}
	params.Set("domain", "nike.com")
	params.Set("region", "US")
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/google/company/ads?"+params.Encode(), nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", os.Getenv("LURKAPI_API_KEY"))

	client := &http.Client{Timeout: 60 * time.Second}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]any
	if err := json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&data); err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	if data["success"] != true {
		panic(fmt.Sprintf("%v: %v", data["code"], data["error"]))
	}
	out, _ := json.MarshalIndent(data["ads"], "", "  ")
	fmt.Println(string(out))
}

<?php
$params = http_build_query([
    'domain' => 'nike.com',
    'region' => 'US',
]);
$context = stream_context_create(['http' => [
    'header' => 'x-api-key: ' . getenv('LURKAPI_API_KEY'),
    'timeout' => 60,
    'ignore_errors' => true,
]]);
$body = file_get_contents('https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/google/company/ads?' . $params, false, $context);
$data = json_decode($body, true);
if (!$data['success']) {
    throw new Exception("{$data['code']}: {$data['error']}");
}
print_r($data['ads']);

require 'json'
require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/google/company/ads')
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form(
  'domain' => 'nike.com',
  'region' => 'US',
)
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req['x-api-key'] = ENV.fetch('LURKAPI_API_KEY')
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == 'https', read_timeout: 60) do |http|
  http.request(req)
end
data = JSON.parse(res.body)
raise "#{data['code']}: #{data['error']}" unless data['success']
puts JSON.pretty_generate(data['ads'])

Parameters

Add them to the URL after a ?, as in ?domain=nike.com&region=US. Join several with &.

Example response

A real response, captured from the live API. Lists are trimmed to a couple of items, and long text such as media links is cut short with ….

{
  "success": true,
  "credits_remaining": 999959,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "ads": [
    {
      "advertiserId": "AR16735076323512287233",
      "creativeId": "CR15254823507167543297",
      "format": "text",
      "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/cre…",
      "advertiserName": "Nike, Inc.",
      "domain": "nike.com",
      "imageUrl": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/5840308546330368628",
      "previewUrl": null,
      "firstShown": "2023-11-16T21:42:56.000Z",
      "lastShown": "2026-10-03T00:12:26.000Z",
      "daysShown": 900,
      "overallImpressions": null,
      "spend": null,
      "politicalRegions": null
    },
    {
      "advertiserId": "AR11154049584043393025",
      "creativeId": "CR14240224963381428225",
      "format": "video",
      "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR11154049584043393025/cre…",
      "advertiserName": "INITIATIVE MEDIA B.V.",
      "domain": "nike.com",
      "imageUrl": null,
      "previewUrl": "https://displayads-formats.googleusercontent.com/ads/preview/content.js?…",
      "firstShown": "2023-10-18T04:22:23.000Z",
      "lastShown": "2026-10-02T23:55:34.000Z",
      "daysShown": 500,
      "overallImpressions": null,
      "spend": null,
      "politicalRegions": null
    }
  ],
  "cursor": "CgoAP7zmjHPnhhnzEhDFA1A5wuZ66qcIolgAAAAAGgn8+Gip+OOF4F8=",
  "number_of_ads_estimate": 8000,
  "number_of_ads_range": {
    "min": 8000,
    "max": 9000
  }
}

Response fields

Every field in a successful response, and what it means. A name with [] belongs to each item of a list: ads[].advertiserId is the advertiserId of every item in ads. null means there's no value.

Pagination

Results come in pages. For the next page, repeat the call with the same parameters and add the response's cursor as cursor. On the last page, cursor is null. Each page costs 1 credit.

let cursor = null;for (let page = 1; page <= 5; page++) {const params = new URLSearchParams({ domain: "nike.com", region: "US" });if (cursor) params.set("cursor", cursor);const res = await fetch(`https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/google/company/ads?${params}`, {headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.LURKAPI_API_KEY },});const data = await res.json();if (!data.success) throw new Error(`${data.code}: ${data.error}`);console.log(data.ads);cursor = data.cursor;if (!cursor) break; // last page}

Cost and freshness

Each call costs 1 credit. Calls turned away before they reach the platform (invalid parameters, a key or balance problem, a rate limit) are free, and so are 5xx errors. A not_found is charged, since the platform was checked. How charging works.

Answers are cached for up to 12 hours. A repeat call within that time can return the same data, and costs the same.

Errors

A failed call returns success: false, an error message, a code your program can check, and a docs link. These are the errors this endpoint can return. All error codes.

Use it in Claude

Connect LurkAPI to Claude and ask in plain English. This endpoint is the google_company_ads tool. For example:

Use LurkAPI's google_company_ads tool with domain "nike.com", region "US", then summarize what you find.

Claude calls google_company_ads with arguments like these, and each call costs 1 credit:

{"domain": "nike.com","region": "US"}

To save tokens, tool results leave out empty fields, keep one URL per image or video, and give transcripts as plain text unless you pass timestamps=true. A result over 45,000 characters comes in parts. Its _note gives the offset for the next part, and later parts are free for 15 minutes. Pass trim=false for the full response.