you can provide your search urls 1 by 1 to the actor using input variable "start_url"

Can you give me the exact variable to put in the actor so I can just copy from here and paste it in the actor? I have a big list of ad transparency links so how would I be able to do that? Your guidance is much appreciated

for search url: { "crawl_type": "ads", "max_ads": 10, "start_url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/?authuser=0&region=US&preset-date=Last+30+days&domain=vichara.com" }

for direct ad urls

{ "crawl_type": "ads", "max_ads": 10, "batch_ads": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR14969695884109938689/creative/CR08867476254840848385\nhttps://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR14969695884109938689/creative/CR08036142281947873281", }

"batch_ads" is a string with each url separated by \n

May I know how much it would cost for me to run this actor on a list of 200k rows if I'm on the $39 starter plan which consumes like $0.4 per compute unit apart from the $22/mo for the actor subscription?

No idea, we didn't had this use case initially

My advise would be to try on a list of direct ads of 1000 or 2000 and then make an estimate for the total number

Hey, I purchased the actor and I ran this { "crawl_type": "ads", "max_ads": 10, "start_url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/?authuser=0&region=US&preset-date=Last+30+days&domain=vichara.com" } in my input variable but I'm not getting the desired output. The actor is working strangely and giving me inaccurate results. Please take a look at this and fix this issue for me. I'm attaching the screenshot.

Also, for context google ads transparency links I used were:

https://adstransparency.google.com/?region=anywhere&domain=digifabster.com https://adstransparency.google.com/?region=anywhere&domain=scismic.com https://adstransparency.google.com/?region=anywhere&domain=digifabster.com

Can you share the apify run ids pls ?

Also on clay you need to format the received output results from an apify actor run

You are getting a list of object that you need to iterate over

1. Where can I find the apify run ids?
2. How do I do that?

This is the first time I'm using an apify actor so please bear with me

send me a google meet invite at dev@saswave.com for tomorrow (Paris time)

Hi, have sent an invite for 1:30 PM Paris Time which is half an hour from now. Please let me know if you can make it.

Sorry a bit late, im available all day tomorrow

Le mer. 16 juil. 2025 à 12:55 PM, akshatbiyani notifications@apify.com a écrit :

I need to get this fixed today please. Can you share a time that works best for you and I'll send a google meet invite?

Can you please reply? Waiting for your help here

wasn't avaible and tried to reschedule the meeting at 8pm if you are avaible

waiting for your response on google agenda

I have sent a new invite for your proposed time on your email. Please look for the same and see you in the meeting room.

https://console.apify.com/actors/dEEMWx8bctbMBKmA5/runs/d06XTMYdN4APt37dm#output

data about ad spend and impressions seems to be available only for political ads

ex: https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR03681116757440856065/creative/CR05397753561461293057?region=US&topic=political

We will add an extra step to update the actor and provide the missing data, keeping you posted

Understood, thing is I'm already past due on this workflow for a while now and I'd like to get this sorted asap so can you please let me know if you can figure this out by today? If not, I might have to try a different actor because getting this data is the need of the hour for us.

We updated the date format and added website when available

But ad-spend is only available for politics ads

Impressions is always available

I'm still getting no data regarding the ad impressions and also nothing regarding the headline or description of the ads which is the most basic thing we're looking for. Only got this actor because it was supposed to give ad spend data which is crucial for our outreach. Can you see if there's anything that can be done from your side to fix this issue?

looking into it

Hi, is there any update? We're looking to get started on this asap and it would be really helpful if you could share us the latest datapoints that we can expect out of this actor.

These are mostly the datapoint we are looking for - Ad Name, Ad Spend, Total Ad Spend, Ad Start and End Date, Number of impressions on Ad, Ad Headline, Ad Description, Ad Type - Text/Image/Video.

Please let me know if I'll be able to access all of these datapoints when I run the actor in clay. Looking forward to your earliest reply here.

Almost ready to update the actor,

Keep in mind that every ads don't always have the same quantity of available data

What we added : headline, description, website, impressions_per_country, impressions_per_platform, targeted_platform, targeted_countries,

Some ads have almost no data

And no standard pattern so we tried to test on multiple ads format with fallbacks to collect data with multiple techniques