Google Ads Search provides information on ads that are run by advertisers on Google Ads. Information is based on the Ads Transparency platform and adapted for the convenience of DataForSEO users.
Google Ads Advertisers SERP API provides top search engine results specific to the specified location (see the List of Locations) and other specified parameters.
Note: your account will be billed per each SERP containing up to 40 results.
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_search/live/advanced"
--header "Authorization: Basic ${cred}"
--header "Content-Type: application/json"
--data-raw "[
{
"location_code": 2840,
"platform": "google_search",
"advertiser_ids": [
"AR13752565271262920705",
"AR02439908557932462081"
]
}
]"
<?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(
"location_code" => 2840,
"platform" => "google_search",
"advertiser_ids" => array(
"AR13752565271262920705",
"AR02439908557932462081"
)
);
try {
// POST /v3/serp/google/ads_search/live/advanced
// in addition to 'google' and 'ads_search' 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_search/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,
platform="google_search",
advertiser_ids=[
"AR13752565271262920705",
"AR02439908557932462081"
]
)
# POST /v3/serp/google/ads_search/live/advanced
# in addition to 'google' and 'ads_search' 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_search/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
{
location_code = 2840,
platform = "google_search",
advertiser_ids = new[]
{
"AR13752565271262920705",
"AR02439908557932462081"
}
});
// POST /v3/serp/google/ads_search/live/advanced
// in addition to 'google' and 'ads_search' 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_search/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
target
string
domain name required field if advertiser_ids is not specified
domain name associated with an advertiser account
advertiser_ids
array
advertiser identifiers required field if target is not specified
you can specify the maximum of 25 values in this array; advertiser_ids values for this parameter can be found in the Google Ads Advertisers endpoint;
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_search/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_search/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
platform
string
advertising platform
optional field
possible values: all, google_play, google_maps, google_search, google_shopping, youtube
default value: all
format
string
ad format
optional field
possible values: all, text, image, video
date_from
string
starting date of the time range
optional field
required field if date_to is specified;
date format: "yyyy-mm-dd"
minimum value: 2018-05-31
maximum value: today’s date
example: "2020-01-01"
date_to
string
ending date of the time range
optional field
required field if date_from is specified;
date format: "yyyy-mm-dd"
minimum value: 2018-05-31
maximum value: today’s date
example: "2020-01-01"
depth
integer
parsing depth
optional field
number of results in SERP
default value: 40
max value: 120 Note: your account will be billed per each SERP containing up to 40 results;
thus, setting a depth above 40 may result in additional charges if the search engine returns more than 40 results;
if the specified depth is higher than the number of results in the response, the difference will be refunded automatically to your account balance
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
in this case, equals null
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_search
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_search
type
string
type of element = ‘ads_search’
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
advertiser_id
string
unique identifier of the advertiser account
creative_id
string
unique identifier of the advertisement
title
string
title of the element
contains the name of the advertiser
url
string
url of the advertisement
URL pointing to the advertisement on the Ads Transparency platform
verified
boolean
verified advertiser account
equals true if advertiser account is verified by Google Ads
format
string
format of the advertisement
possible values: text, image, video
preview_image
array
preview image of the advertisement
url
string
url to the image preview
height
integer
height of the preview image
width
integer
width of the preview image
preview_url
string
url pointing to the ad preview
first_shown
string
date and time when the ad was shown for the first time
in the UTC format: “yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss +00:00”
last_shown
string
date and time when the ad was shown the last time
in the UTC format: “yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss +00:00”