Google Ads Transparency Monitor MCP Server

An MCP server for the Mamba Labs Google Ads Transparency Monitor actor on Apify. Give it a company domain or an advertiser name. Each run reads Google's public Ads Transparency Center and returns one row per ad, with the format, first and last shown dates, a creative link, and the ad's page, plus a company summary row with Google's total ad count band.

What's Inside

What it does
Quick start
Prerequisites
Example prompts
Tool
Inputs
Pricing
Your keys
Full actor documentation
License

What it does

List the Google ads a company runs. Give a company domain (for example stripe.com) or an advertiser name, or lists of either. You get one row per ad with the advertiser, ad ID, format (text, image, or video), first and last shown dates, a creative link, and the ad's Transparency Center page, plus one summary row per input that says whether the company runs Google ads, how many (Google's own count band, for example 8,000 to 9,000), and in which formats. Rows with no ads, blocked requests, or a changed Google page come back free with a row_status saying so.

All of the work runs on Apify. This package is a thin client that starts the actor run, waits for it, and hands back the dataset rows.

Quick start

You need Node.js 18 or newer and an Apify account with an API token.

Add this to your Claude Desktop config (claude_desktop_config.json), Cursor, or any MCP client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mamba-google-ads-transparency-monitor": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mambalabsdev/mcp-google-ads-transparency-monitor"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APIFY_TOKEN": "your-apify-token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart the client. The get_google_ads tool appears.

Prerequisites

Node.js 18 or newer.
An Apify API token from console.apify.com/account/integrations, set as APIFY_TOKEN. The server lists its tool without a token; a call needs one.

Example prompts

"Does notion.so run Google ads? How many, and in which formats?"
"Show me the 10 most recent video ads HubSpot ran in the US."
"For stripe.com, ramp.com, and brex.com, which ones advertised on Google in the last 30 days?"

Tool

get_google_ads. One tool. Example arguments:

{
  "company_domain": "stripe.com",
  "max_ads": "20",
  "since_days": "90"
}

Inputs

Every buyer facing input of the live actor, unchanged. Omitted inputs take the actor's own defaults. Give one of company_domain, advertiser_name, domains, or advertiser_names.

Input	Type	Required	Description
`company_domain`	string	no	A company website domain, for example stripe.com.
`advertiser_name`	string	no	An advertiser name as Google verifies it, for example Stripe, Inc.
`domains`	array	no	Several company domains. Up to 500 inputs per run.
`advertiser_names`	array	no	Several advertiser names.
`region`	string	no	anywhere, or a two letter country code such as US, GB, DE, or FR. Default anywhere.
`formats`	array	no	text, image, video. Omit for all formats.
`max_ads`	string	no	Ad rows per input, 1 to 1000. Default 50.
`since_days`	string	no	Only ads last shown in this many days; 0 for all. Default 90.
`include_summary`	string	no	true or false. Default true.
`max_charge_usd`	string	no	Optional cost cap for the run.
`skipCache`	string	no	true reads fresh results instead of the free 24 hour cache. Default false.
`proxy_mode`	string	no	auto, direct, or residential. Default auto.

Pricing

Pay per event on Apify, billed to your Apify account. Prices in USD.

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold
`ad-found`, per ad row returned	$0.002	$0.0019	$0.0018	$0.0017
`company-summary`, per input with ads	$0.003	$0.00285	$0.0027	$0.00255
`apify-actor-start`, per run start	$0.0005	$0.0005	$0.0005	$0.0005

Rows with no ads, blocked rows, changed source rows, error rows, and cached rows are free.

Your keys

The actor needs no provider key. It reads Google's public Ads Transparency Center and holds no key of its own. Proxy traffic, if a run uses the Apify proxy, is billed to your Apify account by Apify.

Full actor documentation

apify.com/mambalabs/google-ads-transparency-monitor

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Google Ads Transparency Monitor MCP Server