Google Ads Transparency Center Search Suggestions API. Advertisers and websites matching your search.
Advertisers and websites suggested for a query. We handle the proxies, blocks and platform changes.
Google Ads Transparency Center Search Suggestions API at a glance
Returns what the Google Ads Transparency Center search box suggests for a query, in its order: matching advertisers, then websites with ads. Each advertiser has its AR ID, name, country, verification badge and ad count as Google's range, and each website its bare domain, ready for the Google Ads Transparency Center Ads by Website API. Filter to one country, and page past what the box shows.
GET /v1/google/search_suggestions
- 1 credit per page, $0.75–$1.97 per 1,000 pages
- 9 typed fields null when unknown
- 20 advertisers and websites per page, the center's search box order: on each page its advertisers, then its websites
queryis all it needs, e.g.lululemon
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$ npm install socialtapquery = lululemonconst params = new URLSearchParams({
query: "Lululemon",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://socialtap.dev/v1/google/search_suggestions?${params}`, {
headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY ?? "" },
});
const body = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${body.error.code}: ${body.error.message}`);
const { data, page, meta } = body;
console.log(data, meta.credits_charged);import os
import requests
res = requests.get(
"https://socialtap.dev/v1/google/search_suggestions",
params={"query": "Lululemon"},
headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"]},
)
body = res.json()
if not res.ok:
raise RuntimeError(f"{body['error']['code']}: {body['error']['message']}")
data, page, meta = body["data"], body["page"], body["meta"]
print(data, meta["credits_charged"])require "json"
require "net/http"
uri = URI("https://socialtap.dev/v1/google/search_suggestions")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form('query' => 'Lululemon')
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req["x-api-key"] = ENV.fetch("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == "https") { |http| http.request(req) }
body = JSON.parse(res.body)
raise "#{body["error"]["code"]}: #{body["error"]["message"]}" unless res.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
pp body["data"]
puts body["meta"]["credits_charged"]<?php
$query = http_build_query([
'query' => 'Lululemon',
]);
$ch = curl_init('https://socialtap.dev/v1/google/search_suggestions?' . $query);
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['x-api-key: ' . getenv('SOCIALTAP_API_KEY')],
]);
$body = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
if (curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE) >= 400) {
throw new RuntimeException($body['error']['code'] . ': ' . $body['error']['message']);
}
print_r($body['data']);
echo $body['meta']['credits_charged'], PHP_EOL;package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"log"
"net/http"
"net/url"
"os"
)
func main() {
q := url.Values{}
q.Set("query", "Lululemon")
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://socialtap.dev/v1/google/search_suggestions?"+q.Encode(), nil)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", os.Getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer res.Body.Close()
var body struct {
Data json.RawMessage `json:"data"`
Page json.RawMessage `json:"page"`
Meta map[string]any `json:"meta"`
Error *struct {
Code string `json:"code"`
Message string `json:"message"`
} `json:"error"`
}
if err := json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&body); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
if body.Error != nil {
log.Fatalf("%s: %s", body.Error.Code, body.Error.Message)
}
fmt.Println(string(body.Data), body.Meta["credits_charged"])
}curl 'https://socialtap.dev/v1/google/search_suggestions?query=Lululemon' \
-H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"{
"data": [
{
"approximate_fields": [],
"hashtag": null,
"platform": "google",
"platform_specific": {
"google": {
"ads": {
"lower_bound": 16,
"upper_bound": 16
},
"country_code": "MX"
}
},
"position": 0,
"profile": {
"avatar_url": null,
"display_name": "LULULEMON MEXICO",
"id": "AR02903092099014459393",
"is_verified": true,
"url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR02903092099014459393",
"username": null
},
"text": "LULULEMON MEXICO",
"type": "profile",
"unknown_fields": [],
"url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR02903092099014459393"
},
{
"approximate_fields": [],
"hashtag": null,
"platform": "google",
"platform_specific": {
"google": {
"ads": {
"lower_bound": 4000,
"upper_bound": 5000
},
"country_code": "HK"
}
},
"position": 1,
"profile": {
"avatar_url": null,
"display_name": "lululemon HK Limited",
"id": "AR01382517811867287553",
"is_verified": true,
"url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR01382517811867287553",
"username": null
},
"text": "lululemon HK Limited",
"type": "profile",
"unknown_fields": [],
"url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR01382517811867287553"
},
{
"approximate_fields": [],
"hashtag": null,
"platform": "google",
"platform_specific": {
"google": {
"ads": {
"lower_bound": 55,
"upper_bound": 55
},
"country_code": "QA"
}
},
"position": 2,
"profile": {
"avatar_url": null,
"display_name": "LULULEMON ATHLETICA TRADING",
"id": "AR06362141867382931457",
"is_verified": true,
"url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR06362141867382931457",
"username": null
},
"text": "LULULEMON ATHLETICA TRADING",
"type": "profile",
"unknown_fields": [],
"url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR06362141867382931457"
}
],
"page": {
"has_more": true,
"next_cursor": "c1.EXAMPLE_CURSOR",
"next_cursor_expires_at": "2026-10-26T12:00:00Z",
"end_reason": null
},
"meta": {
"request_id": "req_3f9c2a7d1e8b4c6a9f0e2d4b6a8c0e1f",
"platform": "google",
"source": "api",
"is_cached": false,
"credits_charged": 1,
"latency_ms": 197,
"fetched_at": "2026-10-25T12:00:00Z",
"input": null,
"credits_remaining": 9999,
"client_request_id": null,
"warnings": []
}
}import { SocialTap } from "socialtap";
const client = new SocialTap(); // apiKey defaults to process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY
const res = await client.google.searchSuggestions.list({ query: "Lululemon" });
console.log(res.data);
console.log(res.credits.charged, res.meta.request_id);import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String query = "query=" + encode("Lululemon");
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
.uri(URI.create("https://socialtap.dev/v1/google/search_suggestions?" + query))
.header("x-api-key", System.getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
.GET()
.build();
HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
// An error is {"error": {"code", "message", ...}}; success is {data, meta}, meta.credits_charged its price.
if (response.statusCode() >= 400) throw new RuntimeException(response.body());
System.out.println(response.body());
}
static String encode(String value) {
return URLEncoder.encode(value, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
}
}using System.Text.Json;
using var http = new HttpClient();
http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"));
var query = string.Join("&",
"query=" + Uri.EscapeDataString("Lululemon"));
var res = await http.GetAsync("https://socialtap.dev/v1/google/search_suggestions?" + query);
using var body = JsonDocument.Parse(await res.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
if (!res.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
var error = body.RootElement.GetProperty("error");
throw new Exception($"{error.GetProperty("code")}: {error.GetProperty("message")}");
}
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("data"));
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("meta").GetProperty("credits_charged"));// Cargo.toml: reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["blocking", "json"] }, serde_json = "1"
use std::env;
fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
let res = reqwest::blocking::Client::new()
.get("https://socialtap.dev/v1/google/search_suggestions")
.query(&[("query", "Lululemon")])
.header("x-api-key", env::var("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")?)
.send()?;
let ok = res.status().is_success();
let body: serde_json::Value = res.json()?;
if !ok {
return Err(format!("{}: {}", body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"]).into());
}
println!("{} {}", body["data"], body["meta"]["credits_charged"]);
Ok(())
}200 OK · GET https://socialtap.dev/v1/google/search_suggestionsLong arrays and strings are shortened here. Real responses are complete.Docs One schema on 3 platforms.
The response reference lists every field, its type and when it is null. See the full schema.
Null means unknown
A field Google Ads Transparency Center doesn't show is null, never zero or an empty string, so a real zero always means zero.
What it accepts
What to search for, as typed into the Ads Transparency Center's search box: an advertiser's name or a website's domain, or a part of either, in any language (lululemon, nike.com, トヨタ).
Write one parser
Google Ads Transparency Center, TikTok and Instagram answer in these fields, so the code that reads one reads them all.
platformstring- Platform whose search box offers the suggestion.
textstring- The suggestion as the platform shows it, whitespace-trimmed: the completed search for a query suggestion, the account's name for a profile one, the domain for a website one.
typestring- query = a completed search to run; profile = an account (or community) the platform proposes, described in profile; hashtag = a hashtag, described in hashtag; website = a website the platform proposes: text is its domain (nike.com), as the platform's searches by website take it. New values may be added.
positioninteger- Zero-based rank of the suggestion in the list, counting every type: the platform's order (each endpoint's notes say how a list combining several of the platform's searches is ordered).
urlstring- Where the suggestion leads on the platform: the search results page for a query, the account's page for a profile, the hashtag's page for a hashtag, the platform's page for the website for a website.
profileobject- The account a profile suggestion names; null for every other type.
hashtagobject- The hashtag a hashtag suggestion names, keyed as the platform's hashtag endpoints key it; null for every other type.
approximate_fieldsstring[]- JSON paths of values rounded or capped by the platform (hashtag.metrics.post_count at Instagram's ceiling). [] when all exact.
Live data from 33 platforms.
What teams build with the Google Ads Transparency Center Search Suggestions API.
Find a brand's advertisers and websites at once
Pick the domain to pull a website's ads
Autocomplete an ad library search in your app
See which of a brand's country sites advertise
Good to know before you build.
- Each page holds up to ten advertisers, then up to ten websites, as the box lists them. The next page continues both lists, and position counts across pages. The Google Ads Transparency Center Advertiser Search API lists every matching advertiser at once, with sort=popular.
- A website suggestion's text is a bare domain (nike.com), which the Google Ads Transparency Center Ads by Website API takes as its query. Its url is the center's page of the ads that lead to that website, from any advertiser.
- Ad counts are Google's ranges (thousands are bucketed), in platform_specific.google.ads with both bounds. With country, they count only the ads shown there.
- The box matches names and domains, not IDs or links: an advertiser's ID finds nothing, and a website's address is searched as words, so send its bare domain (nike.com). Send an ad's or an advertiser's link to the endpoint that takes it. Another Ads Transparency Center page (a domain search) is refused.
- Websites are matched by their domain, so a query in another script (トヨタ) usually suggests advertisers only.
1 credit per page. Failed requests are free.
Buy credits once and spend them on any endpoint, on any platform.
| Source | Price per successful page | Per 1,000 pages |
|---|---|---|
Platform API api | 1 credit | $0.75–$1.97 |
- Cache hits are free.
- Credits from packs and top-ups never expire.
- A monthly plan's credits are spent first, and what is left of them ends at each renewal.
- Prices exclude tax: sales tax is added at checkout where it applies.
- Outside the US, plans and packs are sold to businesses: checkout asks for your VAT, GST or other business tax ID.
Questions about the Google Ads Transparency Center Search Suggestions API.
More in the API reference.
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