The fastest ad verification API for Google search ads

See the ads actually being served in a market, not the ones served to your office IP. Search from any city with responses in under one second, from $1 per 1,000 requests, dropping under $0.50 at volume.

No credit card required · No proxy setup · View Google Search API Docs

Query as a searcher in the market you are verifying, not from HQ
Ads arrive alongside organic results in the same response
Blocked attempts are retried at our cost and never billed

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Typical response time

$1/1K

List price, under $0.50 at volume

Charge for failed requests

Any city

Location-level ad checks

Who verifies search ads through an API

Paid search is the one channel where you cannot see what your competitors are doing by looking at your own account.

Brand protection teams

Catch resellers and affiliates bidding on your trademark in markets where they agreed not to.

PPC agencies

Show clients who else is competing for their terms, with evidence rather than an account-level estimate.

Ad verification vendors

Source creative and placement evidence through one billed API instead of a panel of manual checkers.

Affiliate compliance managers

Enforce brand-bidding rules across territories without asking partners to self-report.

Competitive intelligence teams

Track which messages rivals put money behind, and when they change them.

Why you can't verify ads from your own desk

Search advertising is targeted by design, which makes the obvious way of checking it the least reliable one.

Failure 01

You are not in the target audience

Ads are served by location, language, and device. Searching from the office shows you what that office qualifies for, which is rarely what the market being targeted sees.

Violations never appear

Failure 02

Manual checking cannot cover territories

Verifying a handful of terms in one country is feasible. Doing it across every market, on a schedule consistent enough to prove a pattern, is where the method collapses.

No evidence when it's needed

Failure 03

Brand bidding is discovered late

An unauthorised reseller bidding on your name costs you clicks you would have had for free, and the first sign is usually a rising CPC nobody can explain.

Paying for your own traffic

The data an ad verification request returns

One call to the scraper.google.search actor returns the results page as Google rendered it for that location — ads, organic results, and related searches together.

ads

object

Paid placements on the results page for the query and location.

organic_results[]

array

Unpaid results, so paid and organic presence can be compared in one pass.

position

integer

Organic rank, excluding ads and feature blocks.

title

string

Result headline.

link

string

Destination URL, matched against your authorised-partner list.

snippet

string

Copy shown under the title.

source

string

Publisher name, convenient for grouping by advertiser domain.

related_searches

object

Adjacent queries Google suggests — often where brand bidding shows up first.

search_information

object

Query displayed, total results, and spelling-correction state.

metadata

object

Engine and stored raw page URL — the evidence trail for an enforcement claim.

POST /api/v1/scraper/request

200 ok

# request
curl --location 'https://api.scrapeless.com/api/v1/scraper/request' \
--header 'x-api-token: <api-key>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
    "actor": "scraper.google.search",
    "input": {
        "q": "acme crm pricing",
        "location": "Chicago, Illinois",
        "gl": "us",
        "hl": "en"
    }
}'

# response (trimmed)
{ "ads": { /* paid placements */ },
  "organic_results": [
    { "position": 1,
      "title":  "Acme CRM — Official Pricing",
      "link":   "https://acme.com/pricing",
      "source": "Acme" } ],
  "related_searches": { /* adjacent queries */ },
  "metadata": {
    "rawUrl": "https://www.google.com/…" } }

Full parameter and field reference

Field names inside the ads block are confirmed with your solutions engineer during onboarding — ask for the current schema.

How a verification run works

Define terms and territories

Brand terms, competitor terms, and the markets where partner agreements apply. One request per pair.

Search from that market

The request originates in the target location with matching locale parameters, so you see the ads that market qualifies for rather than the ones your office does.

Match against your allow list

Compare advertiser domains to authorised partners. Anything unmatched is a case, and metadata.rawUrl is the evidence behind it.

Built for brand protection, PPC agencies, and verification vendors

The fastest response in the category

Verification is terms multiplied by territories, repeated often enough to establish a pattern. Sub-second responses turn that from a sampling exercise into continuous coverage.

under 1s

typical vendor window

request

unblock

parse

Check from inside the target market

Pass a city-level location and the search originates there. This is the whole mechanism: an ad you cannot trigger is an ad you cannot verify.

Location Parameters

"location": "Chicago, Illinois"

"gl": "us" "hl": "en"

195 countries covered

Paid and organic in one response

Ads arrive alongside organic results and related searches, so a single request answers both who is bidding and who is ranking for the same term.

Response Fields

ads{}

organic_results[]

related_searches{}

An evidence trail that holds up

Every request stores the source page URL. When a partner disputes a violation, the argument is about a stored page rather than someone's screenshot.

Audit Trail

metadata.rawUrl

metadata.engine

timestamped per request

Plans built for verification programmes

Verification cost is terms multiplied by territories multiplied by check frequency, so effective cost per successful request sets how much coverage you can defend. Start at $1 per 1,000 and move down the curve.

Basic

$0.00/1K

Pay as you go

No commitment. Consumption-based pricing at list rates.

Comparing ad verification data sources

Teams verifying search ads usually choose between manual checks, a panel of local checkers, and querying the results page directly.

Scrapeless Google Search API

Manual checks

Checker panel

Market coverage

195 countries, city-level

Wherever staff are

Wherever checkers are

Check frequency

As often as you query

Occasional

Scheduled batches

Evidence

Stored source page per request

Screenshots

Checker reports

Cost per check

$1.00 / 1K, under $0.50 at volume

Analyst time

Per-checker fees

Cost of a failed check

Never billed

Repeat the work

Usually billed

Time to full coverage

Under an hour

Never complete

Weeks to onboard

Start verifying search ads on the fastest, lowest-cost API

Sub-second results from any city, from $1 per 1,000 requests, dropping under $0.50 at volume, with failed requests never billed. See the full endpoint reference, parameter list, and pricing.

View the product page

Drops into the stack you already run

Official SDKs and verified nodes, so a scheduled rank pull is a configuration task rather than a build.

Python SDK

Node.js SDK

Go SDK

n8n verified node

Make

Pipedream

Activepieces

Dify

MCP server

Webhooks

Need implementation details? View product details or open the Google Search API docs for the full parameter list, response schema, and SDK examples.

Choose the search workflow your team needs

Explore focused solutions for search visibility, AI retrieval, commerce intelligence, research and monitoring. Each use case connects Google Search API results to a clear business outcome.

SEO Rank Monitoring

Measure domain visibility, ranking pages and SERP feature presence across keyword groups, markets and devices.

Explore SEO monitoring

Local SEO & Rankings

Compare local rankings, business listings, Maps visibility and review signals across cities, regions and service areas.

Explore local SEO

AI SEO & GEO Visibility

Monitor brand mentions, citations and source visibility across AI-generated search experiences and target topics.

Explore AI SEO and GEO

Product & Market Research

Study demand signals, alternatives, category presence and competing offers through structured search results.

Explore product research

AI Models & RAG

Give LLMs, agents and RAG pipelines current, attributable search context for grounding and retrieval workflows.

Explore AI model workflows

Keyword Rank Tracking

Track exact keyword positions and movement over time by location, language, device and result type.

Explore rank tracking

Shopping Price Monitoring

Compare public Google Shopping prices, merchants, ratings and product visibility for selected categories.

Explore price monitoring

News & Media Monitoring

Follow headlines, publishers, emerging stories and shifts in public narratives across relevant queries.

Explore news monitoring

Travel Data

Structure Google Flights and Hotels results for route, stay, destination and travel-market research.

Explore travel data

Recruitment Data

Collect Google Jobs results to monitor roles, employers, locations and labor-market demand.

Explore recruitment data You are here

Ad Verification

Verify PPC and Ads visibility, placement and competitive messaging across target queries and markets.

Explore ad verification

Academic Research

Organize Google Scholar results, authors and cited sources for academic and evidence-based research.

Explore academic research

Trend Analysis

Use Google Trends signals to compare changing interest across topics, time periods and markets.

Explore trend analysis

Image Search

Use Google Lens and Images results to discover visual matches, sources and related content.

Explore image search

Brand Monitoring

Track where a brand appears across organic results, news, shopping and other SERP surfaces.

Explore brand monitoring

Need Google Search API specifications and pricing?

Review supported Google API categories, structured response examples, integration steps and pricing on the Product page.

Questions teams ask before they buy

Which is the cheapest ad verification API?

Compare effective cost per successful check rather than list price. Scrapeless lists at $1 per 1,000 and drops under $0.50 at volume, and blocked attempts are never billed — which matters when most checks come back clean.

Which ad verification API is fastest?

Scrapeless returns most requests in under one second, so a programme covering many terms across many territories can run continuously rather than in weekly batches.

Can I see ads targeted at a specific city?

Yes. Pass a city, metro, or postal code in the location parameter and the search originates there, so you see what that market qualifies for rather than what your own network does.

What exactly comes back in the ads block?

The Google Search API returns ads alongside organic results and related searches. Field names inside the ads block are confirmed with your solutions engineer during onboarding so your parser matches the current schema.

Can I use this as evidence in a partner dispute?

The metadata object returns the stored source page URL for each request, so a claim rests on a retrievable page rather than a screenshot that can be questioned.

Can I check competitor ads as well as my own brand terms?

Yes. Any query works, so competitor names, category terms, and your own brand terms all run through the same endpoint at the same price.

Do I still need my own proxies?

No. IP sourcing, rotation, fingerprinting, and CAPTCHA handling sit behind the endpoint, which is what makes checking from inside a foreign market practical at all.

Verifying across many territories? Get a custom rate.

A solutions engineer will scope your term list, territories, and check frequency, then send back custom pricing and confirm the ads response schema — usually within one business day.

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