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Add one entry per line โ€” the actor auto-detects what each one is: a ๐Ÿท๏ธ brand name (e.g. \"Nike\"), a ๐ŸŒ exact domain (e.g. \"nike.com\"), an ๐Ÿ†” advertiser ID (e.g. \"AR16735076323512287233\"), an ๐Ÿ”— advertiser ID + creative ID pair for a single-ad lookup (e.g. \"AR16735076323512287233/CR09405416287280037889\"), or a ๐Ÿ“‹ pasted Transparency Center URL (advertiser / creative / domain / search page). Supports bulk paste โ€” add as many as you like.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "resultType": { "title": "๐ŸŽฏ What to scrape", "enum": [ "ads", "advertisers" ], "type": "string", "description": "๐Ÿ“ฐ \"Ad creatives\" returns individual ads. ๐Ÿ“‹ \"Advertiser summaries\" returns one row per advertiser with approximate ad counts โ€” perfect for a quick \"does this company run Google Ads?\" check across many brands.", "default": "ads" }, "region": { "title": "๐ŸŒ Region", "pattern": "^([A-Za-z]{2}|ANYWHERE)$", "type": "string", "description": "Two-letter ISO 3166-1 country code (e.g. \"US\", \"GB\", \"DE\", \"NL\") to scope results, or \"ANYWHERE\" to search every region at once.", "default": "US" }, "platforms": { "title": "๐Ÿ“ฑ Platforms", "type": "array", "description": "Restrict to ads served on specific Google surfaces. Leave empty for all. Only applies to ads shown on/after 2023-09-04.", "items": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "SEARCH", "YOUTUBE", "SHOPPING", "MAPS", "PLAY" ], "enumTitles": [ "๐Ÿ” Google Search", "๐Ÿ“บ YouTube", "๐Ÿ›๏ธ Shopping", "๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ Maps", "๐ŸŽฎ Play" ] }, "default": [] }, "adFormat": { "title": "๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Ad format", "enum": [ "ALL", "TEXT", "IMAGE", "VIDEO" ], "type": "string", "description": "Filter by creative format.", "default": "ALL" }, "startDate": { "title": "๐Ÿ“… Shown after", "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$", "type": "string", "description": "Only ads shown on or after this date." }, "endDate": { "title": "๐Ÿ“… Shown before", "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$", "type": "string", "description": "Only ads shown before this date." }, "political": { "title": "๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ Political/election ads only", "type": "boolean", "description": "Filter to political & election ads. Unlocks spend ranges and per-region political reach data that ordinary commercial ads don't have.", "default": false }, "impressionRanges": { "title": "๐Ÿ“Š Impression range filter", "type": "array", "description": "Only return ads/advertisers whose (mostly political) impressions fall in these bucketed ranges. Leave empty for no filter.", "items": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "RANGE_0_TO_1K", "RANGE_1K_TO_10K", "RANGE_10K_TO_50K", "RANGE_50K_TO_100K", "RANGE_100K_TO_250K", "RANGE_250K_TO_500K", "RANGE_500K_TO_1M", "RANGE_1M_TO_2500K", "RANGE_2500K_TO_5M", "RANGE_5M_TO_10M", "RANGE_10M_AND_ABOVE" ], "enumTitles": [ "0 โ€“ 1K", "1K โ€“ 10K", "10K โ€“ 50K", "50K โ€“ 100K", "100K โ€“ 250K", "250K โ€“ 500K", "500K โ€“ 1M", "1M โ€“ 2.5M", "2.5M โ€“ 5M", "5M โ€“ 10M", "10M+" ] }, "default": [] }, "candidateNameKeyword": { "title": "๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ผ Political candidate name", "type": "string", "description": "Only used together with 'Political/election ads only' โ€” filters to ads mentioning this candidate's name." }, "maxAdsPerSearch": { "title": "๐Ÿ“ฆ Max ads per target", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 500000, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum ad creatives to collect for each resolved target (advertiser/domain).", "default": 10 }, "maxAdvertisersPerQuery": { "title": "๐Ÿข Max advertisers per brand query", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 500, "type": "integer", "description": "When a brand name (not an exact domain/ID) resolves to several matching advertisers, how many of the top matches to scrape.", "default": 5 }, "pageToken": { "title": "โญ๏ธ Resume page token", "type": "string", "description": "Paste a previous run's 'meta' record nextPageToken here to resume pagination for a single target instead of starting over. Leave empty for a normal first-page run." }, "sortBy": { "title": "โ†•๏ธ Sort ads by", "enum": [ "LAST_ACTIVITY_DATE", "REVENUE", "IMPRESSIONS" ], "type": "string", "description": "How returned ads are ordered.", "default": "LAST_ACTIVITY_DATE" }, "sortDescending": { "title": "๐Ÿ”ฝ Sort descending", "type": "boolean", "description": "Newest/highest first when checked.", "default": true }, "advertiserSortBy": { "title": "โ†•๏ธ Sort advertisers by", "enum": [ "IMPRESSIONS", "REVENUE", "NAME", "CREATIVE_COUNT" ], "type": "string", "description": "Only used in 'Advertiser summaries' mode.", "default": "IMPRESSIONS" }, "includeDetails": { "title": "๐Ÿ”ฌ Fetch full creative details", "type": "boolean", "description": "Adds one extra request per ad to include every A/B creative variation plus 'regionsShown' โ€” the full list of countries the ad ran in with per-country last-shown dates. Slower, and billed per ad via a separate event.", "default": false }, "detailConcurrency": { "title": "โšก Detail fetch concurrency", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 20, "type": "integer", "description": "How many per-ad detail requests run in parallel when 'Fetch full creative details' is on. Higher = faster but more aggressive. No effect otherwise.", "default": 6 }, "includeDisapprovedAds": { "title": "๐Ÿงฏ Also fetch disapproved ads feed", "type": "boolean", "description": "Pulls Google's site-wide, rolling feed of recently policy-rejected ad creatives (not scoped to your targets) into its own output section.", "default": false }, "onlyNewAds": { "title": "๐Ÿ‘๏ธ Monitor mode: only new ads", "type": "boolean", "description": "Output only ads not seen in previous runs. The actor remembers every ad it has seen in a named key-value store, so a scheduled (daily/weekly) run returns just newly-launched ads. The first run seeds the memory and returns everything.", "default": false }, "monitorStoreName": { "title": "๐Ÿ—‚๏ธ Monitor store name", "type": "string", "description": "Name of the store that remembers seen ad IDs across runs. Use a distinct name per monitored target so histories don't mix.", "default": "ads-transparency-monitor" }, "urlsFromFile": { "title": "๐Ÿ“ Import more URLs from a file or sheet", "type": "string", "description": "Paste extra URLs (one per line), OR a link to a .txt/.csv file or Google Sheet containing them โ€” merged in on top of the 'urls' field above." }, "includeRawData": { "title": "๐Ÿ› Include raw API payload", "type": "boolean", "description": "Attaches the raw decoded upstream data to each result for debugging. Off by default to keep records lean.", "default": false }, "legacyKeyAliases": { "title": "๐Ÿ” Include snake_case aliases", "type": "boolean", "description": "Also emit snake_case field aliases (creative_id, advertiser_name, image_url, ...) alongside the primary camelCase fields, for drop-in compatibility with tools built against that shape.", "default": true }, "includeMeta": { "title": "๐Ÿ“‘ Include pagination bookkeeping rows", "type": "boolean", "description": "Emits one extra 'meta' row per target with pagination/match-count bookkeeping (visible in its own 'Pagination & Stats' output view).", "default": true }, "requestTimeoutSecs": { "title": "โฑ๏ธ Request timeout (seconds)", "minimum": 5, "maximum": 120, "type": "integer", "description": "How long to wait for a single upstream response before treating it as failed.", "default": 30 }, "maxRetries": { "title": "๐Ÿ” Max retries per request", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 10, "type": "integer", "description": "How many times a single failed request is retried (with backoff) before giving up on it.", "default": 3 }, "concurrency": { "title": "๐Ÿงต Targets processed in parallel", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50, "type": "integer", "description": "How many targets (advertisers/domains/brand queries) are scraped at the same time.", "default": 5 }, "httpMaxConcurrency": { "title": "๐Ÿšฆ Global in-flight request cap", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of HTTP requests in flight at once across the whole run, regardless of target concurrency.", "default": 8 }, "requestDelay": { "title": "๐Ÿข Minimum delay between requests (seconds)", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 10, "type": "number", "description": "A real global minimum pace shared by every concurrent request โ€” raise this if you see rate-limit warnings in the log.", "default": 0.2 }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "๐Ÿšฆ Default is NO proxy โ€” the actor talks to Google directly. If a request ever gets rejected or blocked, it automatically escalates step-by-step: ๐Ÿšซ no proxy โ†’ ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ datacenter proxy โ†’ ๐Ÿ  residential proxy (retrying up to 3ร— on residential), and then sticks with residential for the rest of the run. Every escalation is logged clearly. Force a tier yourself here if you already know what a target needs.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": false } } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } }