Dashboard + REST API for the YouTube Ad Library

The YouTube Ad Library, unlocked.Every video creative. Every advertiser.

AdScrape pulls the entire Google Ads Transparency Center for YouTube through a clean dashboard and a REST API — research video creatives, monitor competitor campaigns, or ship a YouTube ad-intelligence product of your own.

Live transparency dataDashboard + REST APIChannel resolver — industry first10 free credits, no card

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Live YouTube payloads500 creatives / callCursor paginationChannel typeaheadBYO proxy supportedCloaked CDN for videoNo Google API token5 REST endpointsEvery region Google shipsFormat + duration filtersType-safe responsesWebhook-friendly sessionsLive YouTube payloads500 creatives / callCursor paginationChannel typeaheadBYO proxy supportedCloaked CDN for videoNo Google API token5 REST endpointsEvery region Google shipsFormat + duration filtersType-safe responsesWebhook-friendly sessionsLive YouTube payloads500 creatives / callCursor paginationChannel typeaheadBYO proxy supportedCloaked CDN for videoNo Google API token5 REST endpointsEvery region Google shipsFormat + duration filtersType-safe responsesWebhook-friendly sessions

Not a developer?

The same engine, point-and-click.

Use Discover in-app for visual research, or call the API for programmatic scraping — every account ships with both.

Discover · in-app

Research video creatives visually

Search by channel, advertiser or YouTube Ad Library URL. Save winners to Bookmarks. Open an ad to read the AI brief, see the run timeline and download the video creative.

Channel & region filters matching Google's UI
Bookmarks board for shortlisted winners
Quality score + AI marketing teardown per video ad

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API · programmatic

Ship YouTube intel into your product

JSON endpoints — channel search, pagination, advertiser suggestions, video download. Bring your own proxy to skip the managed-pool surcharge.

POST /api/v1/youtube/search — keyword & channel scrape
POST /api/v1/youtube/search/next — cursor pagination (≤ 500 / call)
GET /api/v1/youtube/media/{ad_id} — video download

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Industry first

The only API with YouTube channel suggestions.

Every other YouTube ad scraper makes you paste the exact channel handle. Ours wraps Google's typeahead — so partial names, @-handles and brand strings all resolve to the right advertiser ID, with verification, subscriber counts and country attached.

POST /api/v1/youtube/suggestions200 OK · $0.02

POST /api/v1/youtube/suggestions
{ "query": "mrbe", "country": "US" }

──► 200 OK
{
  "query": "mrbe",
  "source": "typeahead",
  "results": [
    {
      "advertiser_id": "AR1234567890",
      "channel_handle": "@MrBeast",
      "display_name": "MrBeast",
      "verification": "VERIFIED",
      "subscribers": 365_000_000,
      "advertiser_country": "US"
    },
    {
      "advertiser_id": "AR9876543210",
      "channel_handle": "@MrBeastGaming",
      "display_name": "MrBeast Gaming",
      "verification": "VERIFIED",
      "subscribers": 47_200_000,
      "advertiser_country": "US"
    }
  ]
}

Why this matters

Resolve ambiguous channel strings, automatically

Disambiguate @MrBeast vs @MrBeastGaming, find the verified parent advertiser, and feed the right ID into /api/v1/youtube/search in one chained call.

The same source the YouTube ad center uses
Verification + country attached to every result
Subscriber count — pre-filter by reach
Cached 1h per query — repeats are free for an hour
Pipe directly into /search via advertiser_id — zero string matching

Try it now See the suggestions docs

Other scrapers: exact handle only

AdScrape: typeahead + fuzzy match

$0.01 / suggestion · cached 1h

Head to head

What only AdScrape ships today.

Capabilities you'd otherwise stitch together yourself — compared against typical scraper SaaS and the native transparency surface.

Capability	AdScrape	Other scrapers	Google Ads API
YouTube channel typeahead	Live, sub-second	Exact handles only	Not exposed
Creatives per call	Up to 500	~30–50	Capped by quotas
Cursor pagination	Stateful session token	Often offset-based	Standard paging
BYO proxy discount	Waives managed-pool fee	No	N/A — Google-hosted
Cloaked CDN for video	Opaque /m/<token> URLs	No	No
No-code dashboard	Discover + Bookmarks + Notes	Mostly API-only	Developer only
Free tier	10 credits, no card	Trial or paid only	Requires app review
No Google API token / app review	Yes	Yes	Required

Capabilities are verifiable in the API docs. Comparison reflects publicly-available behaviour of YouTube ad scrapers and Google's public APIs as of 2026.

API · the core product

Clean endpoints, every ad.

Authenticate with one header, page with one token, and stream creatives through our cloaked CDN.

POST
/api/v1/youtube/search
Scrape by keyword, channel or Ad Library URL
from $0.05 / ad
POST
/api/v1/youtube/search/next
Cursor-paginate the same session (≤500 / call)
from $0.05 / ad
GET
/api/v1/youtube/suggestions
Channel typeahead — Google source, exclusive to us
$0.01 / suggestion
GET
/api/v1/youtube/ads/{ad_id}
Full creative record — title, CTA, timeline, regions
free (cached)
GET
/api/v1/youtube/media/{ad_id}
Stream the cloaked video bytes
$0.10 / ad

paginate.py200 OK

# Drain a channel's YouTube ad footprint
r = post("/api/v1/youtube/search", json={
    "channel_handle": "@MrBeast",
    "country": "US",
    "max_results": 500,
})

while r["next_cursor"]:
    r = post("/api/v1/youtube/search/next", json={
        "session_token": r["session_token"],
        "page_size": 500,
    })
    persist(r["ads"])  # ~$25 / page at base rate

download.sh200 OK

# Save a YouTube ad video — cloaked CDN
curl https://api.adscrape.in/api/v1/youtube/media/9182736455 \
  -H "X-API-Key: sk_live_…" \
  -o creative.mp4

# 200 OK · 8.4 MB · video/mp4
# Cost: $0.10 (deducted on success)

Channel typeahead — no one else has it

API keys with one-click revoke

Per-key usage logs + plan-level RPM

BYO proxy waives the managed-pool fee

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0M+

YouTube ads indexed by Google

Languages supported

Regions covered

Max creatives per API call

Features

Everything you need, nothing you don't.

A focused stack that takes you from "who's running ads" to "here's the creative brief" in minutes.

Universal video search

Query by channel, advertiser ID or full YouTube Ad Library URL — 80+ languages and every Google region.

Region + format filters

Filter by country, format (skippable, bumper, masthead) and date — exactly the way Google's transparency UI works.

Run-time analytics

Spend & impression bands, region breakdown, longest-running creatives, theme clustering across a channel.

Cursor pagination

Drain a channel's full advertiser footprint with one session token, up to 500 creatives per call.

Bring your own proxy

Skip the managed-pool fee. We support http, https, socks5 and socks5h.

Clean REST API

Drop the same data into n8n, Make, Zapier, BigQuery, or your own pipeline. Type-safe responses.

Use cases

What real teams do with AdScrape.

Workflows that land in week one — each backed by the same dashboard and the same API.

Performance marketing

Scan a competitor's YouTube spend each Monday — Channel Search → Bookmarks → copy steal-worthy hooks from their top creatives.

Video creators

Validate a launch angle by watching every ad already running in your niche and country before you film.

Scraper teams

Replace headless-Chrome crawlers with one X-API-Key header and BYO proxy — pay base rate, ship the same day.

Brand monitoring

Track every video ad your competitor pushes, automate alerts when a new creative goes live in target markets.

Agencies

Backfill client decks with normalized YouTube payloads — no Selenium, no manual screen-grabs, no rate-limit pain.

FAQ

Questions we get every week.

Short answers to the things people ask before signing up. More billing-specific FAQs live on the pricing page.

Is scraping the YouTube Ad Library legal?

Yes. Google's Ads Transparency Center is a public tool — every ad shown there is published by Google for public review. AdScrape reads the same URLs your browser does, with the same rate hygiene Google expects. We don't touch private data, user PII or anything behind login.

How is this different from Google's free transparency website?

Google's site is a single-search browser tool — no programmatic pagination, no structured JSON, no bulk video download, no scripting. AdScrape gives you a clean JSON API, cursor pagination up to 500 creatives / call, a Discover dashboard with Bookmarks + Notes, channel typeahead, and a cloaked CDN for video bytes.

Do you support YouTube Shorts and bumper ads?

Yes — every YouTube ad format Google indexes in transparency (skippable in-stream, non-skippable, bumper, masthead, Shorts) shows up in our search. Each result includes the format field plus the duration, region targeting and run dates.

Can I use AdScrape without writing any code?

Yes. Sign up and land on Discover — a clean dashboard for Channel Search, Keyword Search and Bookmarks. Channel Search uses Google's own typeahead so you don't need exact handles. The same data is available via the REST API when you're ready to ship it into a pipeline.

Do you store the video creatives?

Yes — every ad you scrape is upserted into our shared store keyed on Google's ad_id, so subsequent searches that hit the same ad are served from cache instead of refetching from Google. Video bytes are streamed on demand through our cloaked CDN — no on-disk caching, short-TTL signed URLs.

Different question? Email us at contact@adscrape.in.

Pricing

Pay per ad scraped. No surprises.

Three plans. Same API surface for everyone — volume tiers earn cheaper per-ad pricing and higher rate limits.

Starter

$49 / mo

$0.05 / ad

~1,000 ads / mo

60 req/min
All endpoints
BYO proxy supported

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See the YouTube ads your competitors don't want you to see.

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The YouTube Ad Library, unlocked.Every video creative. Every advertiser.

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POST /api/v1/youtube/suggestions { "query": "mrbe", "country": "US" } ──► 200 OK { "query": "mrbe", "source": "typeahead", "results": [ { "advertiser_id": "AR1234567890", "channel_handle": "@MrBeast", "display_name": "MrBeast", "verification": "VERIFIED", "subscribers": 365_000_000, "advertiser_country": "US" }, { "advertiser_id": "AR9876543210", "channel_handle": "@MrBeastGaming", "display_name": "MrBeast Gaming", "verification": "VERIFIED", "subscribers": 47_200_000, "advertiser_country": "US" } ] }

Capability

AdScrape

Other scrapers

Google Ads API

YouTube channel typeahead

Live, sub-second

Exact handles only

Not exposed

Creatives per call

Up to 500

~30–50

Capped by quotas

Cursor pagination

Stateful session token

Often offset-based

Standard paging

BYO proxy discount

Waives managed-pool fee

N/A — Google-hosted

Cloaked CDN for video

Opaque /m/<token> URLs

No-code dashboard

Discover + Bookmarks + Notes

Mostly API-only

Developer only

Free tier

10 credits, no card

Trial or paid only

Requires app review

No Google API token / app review

Yes

Required

# Drain a channel's YouTube ad footprint r = post("/api/v1/youtube/search", json={ "channel_handle": "@MrBeast", "country": "US", "max_results": 500, }) while r["next_cursor"]: r = post("/api/v1/youtube/search/next", json={ "session_token": r["session_token"], "page_size": 500, }) persist(r["ads"]) # ~$25 / page at base rate

# Save a YouTube ad video — cloaked CDN curl https://api.adscrape.in/api/v1/youtube/media/9182736455 \ -H "X-API-Key: sk_live_…" \ -o creative.mp4 # 200 OK · 8.4 MB · video/mp4 # Cost: $0.10 (deducted on success)