Google Ads Advertisers provides information on advertisers that run campaigns on Google Ads based on the Ads Transparency platform.
Google Ads Advertisers SERP API provides top search engine results specific to the specified location (see the List of Locations) and keyword parameters.
There are two different priorities that stand for the relative speed of task execution: normal and high.
Instead of ‘login’ and ‘password’ use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
# Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
login="login"
password="password"
cred="$(printf ${login}:${password} | base64)"
curl --location --request POST "https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/ads_advertisers/live/advanced"
--header "Authorization: Basic ${cred}"
--header "Content-Type: application/json"
--data-raw "[
{
"location_code": 2840,
"keyword": "apple"
}
]"
<?php
// You can download this file from here https://cdn.dataforseo.com/v3/examples/php/php_RestClient.zip
require('RestClient.php');
$api_url = 'https://api.dataforseo.com/';
try {
// Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
$client = new RestClient($api_url, null, 'login', 'password');
} catch (RestClientException $e) {
echo "n";
print "HTTP code: {$e->getHttpCode()}n";
print "Error code: {$e->getCode()}n";
print "Message: {$e->getMessage()}n";
print $e->getTraceAsString();
echo "n";
exit();
}
$post_array = array();
// You can set only one task at a time
$post_array[] = array(
"language_code" => "en",
"location_code" => 2840,
"keyword" => mb_convert_encoding("apple", "UTF-8")
)
);
try {
// POST /v3/serp/google/ads_advertisers/live/advanced
// in addition to 'google' and 'ads_advertisers' you can also set other search engine and type parameters
// the full list of possible parameters is available in documentation
$result = $client->post('/v3/serp/google/ads_advertisers/live/advanced', $post_array);
print_r($result);
// do something with post result
} catch (RestClientException $e) {
echo "n";
print "HTTP code: {$e->getHttpCode()}n";
print "Error code: {$e->getCode()}n";
print "Message: {$e->getMessage()}n";
print $e->getTraceAsString();
echo "n";
}
$client = null;
?>
from client import RestClient
# You can download this file from here https://cdn.dataforseo.com/v3/examples/python/python_Client.zip
client = RestClient("login", "password")
post_data = dict()
# You can set only one task at a time
post_data[len(post_data)] = dict(
location_code=2840,
keyword="apple"
)
# POST /v3/serp/google/ads_advertisers/live/advanced
# in addition to 'google' and 'ads_advertisers' you can also set other search engine and type parameters
# the full list of possible parameters is available in documentation
response = client.post("/v3/serp/google/ads_advertisers/live/advanced", post_data)
# you can find the full list of the response codes here https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/appendix/errors
if response["status_code"] == 20000:
print(response)
# do something with result
else:
print("error. Code: %d Message: %s" % (response["status_code"], response["status_message"]))
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace DataForSeoDemos
{
public static partial class Demos
{
public static async Task serp_live_advanced()
{
var httpClient = new HttpClient
{
BaseAddress = new Uri("https://api.dataforseo.com/"),
// Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access
//DefaultRequestHeaders = { Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("login:password"))) }
};
var postData = new List<object>();
// You can set only one task at a time
postData.Add(new
{
language_code = "en",
location_code = 2840,
keyword = "apple"
});
// POST /v3/serp/google/ads_advertisers/live/advanced
// in addition to 'google' and 'ads_advertisers' you can also set other search engine and type parameters
// the full list of possible parameters is available in documentation
var taskPostResponse = await httpClient.PostAsync("/v3/serp/google/ads_advertisers/live/advanced", new StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(postData)));
var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<dynamic>(await taskPostResponse.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
// you can find the full list of the response codes here https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/appendix/errors
if (result.status_code == 20000)
{
// do something with result
Console.WriteLine(result);
}
else
Console.WriteLine($"error. Code: {result.status_code} Message: {result.status_message}");
}
}
}
The above command returns JSON structured like this:
All POST data should be sent in the JSON format (UTF-8 encoding). When setting a task, you should send all task parameters in the task array of the generic POST array. You can send up to 2000 API calls per minute, each Live SERP API call can contain only one task.
Below you will find a detailed description of the fields you can use for setting a task.
Description of the fields for setting a task:
Field name
Type
Description
keyword
string
keyword required field
you can specify up to 700 characters in the keyword field
all %## will be decoded (plus character ‘+’ will be decoded to a space character)
if you need to use the “%” character for your keyword, please specify it as “%25”;
if you need to use the “+” character for your keyword, please specify it as “%2B”
learn more about rules and limitations of keyword and keywords fields in DataForSEO APIs in this Help Center article
location_name
string
full name of search engine location required field if you don’t specifylocation_code or location_coordinate if you use this field, you don’t need to specify location_code or location_coordinate
you can receive the list of available locations of the search engine with their location_name by making a separate request to the https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/ads_advertisers/locations
example: London,England,United Kingdom
location_code
integer
search engine location code required field if you don’t specifylocation_name or location_coordinate if you use this field, you don’t need to specify location_name or location_coordinate
you can receive the list of available locations of the search engines with their location_code by making a separate request to the https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/ads_advertisers/locations
example: 2840
location_coordinate
string
GPS coordinates of a location required field if you don’t specifylocation_name or location_code if you use this field, you don’t need to specify location_name or location_code
example: 52.6178549,-155.352142
priority
integer
task priority
optional field
can take the following values:
1 – normal execution priority (set by default)
2 – high execution priority
tag
string
user-defined task identifier
optional field the character limit is 255
you can use this parameter to identify the task and match it with the result
you will find the specified tag value in the data object of the response
As a response of the API server, you will receive JSON-encoded data containing a tasks array with the information specific to the set tasks.
Description of the fields in the results array:
Field name
Type
Description
version
string
the current version of the API
status_code
integer
general status code
you can find the full list of the response codes here Note: we strongly recommend designing a necessary system for handling related exceptional or error conditions
status_message
string
general informational message
you can find the full list of general informational messages here
time
string
execution time, seconds
cost
float
total tasks cost, USD
tasks_count
integer
the number of tasks in the tasks array
tasks_error
integer
the number of tasks in the tasks array returned with an error
tasks
array
array of tasks
id
string
task identifier unique task identifier in our system in the UUID format
status_code
integer
status code of the task
generated by DataForSEO; can be within the following range: 10000-60000
you can find the full list of the response codes here
status_message
string
informational message of the task
you can find the full list of general informational messages here
time
string
execution time, seconds
cost
float
cost of the task, USD
result_count
integer
number of elements in the result array
path
array
URL path
data
object
contains the same parameters that you specified in the POST request
result
array
array of results
keyword
string
keyword received in a POST array the keyword is returned with decoded %## (plus symbol ‘+’ will be decoded to a space character)
type
string
search engine type in a POST array
se_domain
string
search engine domain in a POST array
location_code
integer
location code in a POST array
language_code
string
language code in a POST array
check_url
string
direct URL to search engine results
you can use it to make sure that we provided accurate results
datetime
string
date and time when the result was received
in the UTC format: “yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss +00:00”
example: 2019-11-15 12:57:46 +00:00
spell
object
autocorrection of the search engine
if the search engine provided results for a keyword that was corrected, we will specify the keyword corrected by the search engine and the type of autocorrection;
in this case, equals null
types of search results in SERP
contains types of search results (items) found in SERP.
possible item types: ads_muti_account_advertiser, ads_advertiser, ads_domain
se_results_count
integer
total number of results in SERP
items_count
integer
the number of results returned in the items array
items
array
elements of search results found in SERP
ads_multi_account_advertiser
type
string
type of element = ‘ads_multi_account_advertiser’
multiple advertising accounts with a similar title on Google Ads
rank_group
integer
group rank in SERP
position within a group of elements with identical type values
positions of elements with different type values are omitted from rank_group
rank_absolute
integer
absolute rank in SERP
absolute position among all the elements in SERP
title
string
title of the element
contains the name of the advertiser
location
string
advertiser location
approx_ads_count
integer
ads count
the approximate number of ads that are run by the advertiser across all available Google Ads platforms
advertisers
array
associated advertiser accounts
contains objects with data on associated advertiser accounts
type
string
type of the element
possible item types: advertiser
advertiser_id
string
unique identifier of the advertiser account
can be used to obtain data on advertising campaigns from the Google Ads Search endpoint
location
string
location of the advertiser account
country code associated with the advertiser account
verified
boolean
verified advertiser account
equals true if advertiser account is verified by Google Ads
approx_ads_count
integer
ads count
the approximate number of ads that are run by the advertiser account across all available Google Ads platforms
ads_advertiser
type
string
type of element = ‘ads_advertiser’
single advertiser account on Google Ads
rank_group
integer
group rank in SERP
position within a group of elements with identical type values
positions of elements with different type values are omitted from rank_group
rank_absolute
integer
absolute rank in SERP
absolute position among all the elements in SERP
title
string
title of the element
contains the name of the advertiser
location
string
advertiser location
verified
boolean
verified advertiser account
equals true if advertiser account is verified by Google Ads
approx_ads_count
integer
ads count
the approximate number of ads that are run by the advertiser across all available Google Ads platforms
ads_domain
type
string
type of element = ‘ads_domain’
Google Ads advertiser identified with a domain name
rank_group
integer
group rank in SERP
position within a group of elements with identical type values
positions of elements with different type values are omitted from rank_group
rank_absolute
integer
absolute rank in SERP
absolute position among all the elements in SERP