---
title: "Google Company Ads API"
method: GET
path: "/v1/ad-library/google/company-ads"
tags: ["Google Ad Library"]
---

# Google Company Ads API

`GET /v1/ad-library/google/company-ads`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.captapi.com`
- URL: `https://api.captapi.com/v1/ad-library/google/company-ads`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in header `X-API-Key`

Google publishes spend and impression ranges only for election ads; commercial advertisers omit both.

Google publishes spend and impression ranges only for election ads in regions that require disclosure; commercial advertisers omit both. isActive is derived from lastShown — true when the creative was seen within 7 UTC days. Pass an advertiser name, domain (nike.com), or AR… id from advertiser-search and get public commercial creatives as clean JSON: id, url, adFormat, firstShown/lastShown, advertiser, media[], isActive. A name/domain can match more than one Google AR… entity — ads[] and adsCountEstimate are always the single resolvedAdvertiser; siblings are otherMatches[{id, name}], not mixed into the list. ATC does not publish structured copy: adFormat=text is inferred from the absence of an image/video asset — those rows keep text/headline/cta/landingUrl as null (the parser still runs; inactive creatives are not skipped) — cta is null in practice because Google publishes no call-to-action. Image/video rows omit those keys (copy lives in the asset). advertiser.logo and advertiser.location are null in practice: the Transparency Center publishes neither (the keys stay for the shared ad-library schema). The same omit convention applies to spend/impressions (election-only) and empty country/countries. Supports country/region, start_date/end_date, sort=last_shown|first_shown, cursor pagination, adsCountEstimate. resolution is always keyed: not-in-library | resolved-no-ads | resolved-filtered-out when ads is empty; null when ads exist (null means the list is populated — it is not a leftover). Flat 2 credits when ads are returned; totalReturned=0 is 0 credits (max 200 per page).

Docs: https://captapi.com/apis/google-ad-library-company-ads

## Query parameters

- `advertiser` string, required
- `country` string
- `region` string
- `limit` integer
- `cursor` string
- `start_date` string
- `end_date` string
- `sort` 'last_shown' | 'first_shown'
- `topic` string
- `cache` boolean

## Response `200`

Success. The data object for this endpoint.

- object
  - `success` unknown, required
  - `data` object, required
    - `advertiser` string: Advertiser running the ad.
    - `country` string: Country for the request context. On popular-creators top-level: ISO feed market you queried (e.g. US) — not each creator's home country (see region).
    - `totalReturned` integer: Number of items returned in this response.
    - `platformNote` string: Platform note.
    - `ads` object[]
      - `platform` string: Platform identifier for this response (matches the endpoint's platform).
      - `id` string: Id of this ads item.
      - `url` string: Canonical URL of the item.
      - `adFormat` string: Inferred from assets — text means no image/video URL, not a labelled text field. ATC does not ship the copy next to that label. text rows always include text/headline/cta/landingUrl (null when SearchCreatives has no copy). image/video rows omit those keys — copy lives in the asset.
      - `firstShown` string: When the ad was first shown.
      - `lastShown` string: When the ad was last shown.
      - `isActive` boolean: Derived: true when lastShown is within 7 UTC days. Google does not publish an activity flag.
      - `advertiser` object: Advertiser running the ad.
        - `id` string: Id of this ads item.
        - `name` string
        - `url` string: Canonical URL of the item.
      - `media` string[]: Media attached to the item.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request: wrong platform URL, unknown endpoint, or an invalid parameter value. Not billed.
- `401`: Missing, invalid or revoked API key. Not billed.
- `402`: Not enough credits for this request. Not billed.
- `404`: The resource does not exist or is not public. Not billed.
- `422`: A required parameter is missing or has the wrong type. Not billed.
- `429`: Rate limit reached. Wait for Retry-After seconds. Not billed.
- `502`: The platform could not be reached or returned nothing usable. Retryable, not billed. 503 and 504 use the same envelope.

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/captapi/apis/captapi-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/captapi/apis/captapi-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/captapi/apis/captapi-api/revisions/c9b9ac5ff1bd?raw)