Get an alert when a competitor launches a new Google ad

Описание и применение

Автоматический рабочий процесс n8n ежедневно проверяет новые объявления конкурентов в Google Ads Transparency Center через Apify Actor и отправляет уведомления в Slack, экономя время и деньги.

Задача

Need to know when a competitor starts a new Google campaign without manually checking the Ads Transparency Center.

Результат

Daily alerts for new competitor ads are sent to Slack; the workflow is inexpensive and requires no database.

Рабочий процесс

• Set competitors and alert settings (edit node)
• Fetch new competitor ads (HTTP call to Apify Actor with onlyNew=true)
• Build Slack summary (format ad text + links)
• Check if any new ads to report (stop if none)
• Post new ads to Slack
• On error: Post failure notice to Slack

Доказательства

There's no public API for the Transparency Center.

Источник

The Google Ads API only covers your own accounts.

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The BigQuery dataset is partial. It only covers ads served in the European Economic Area and Turkey.

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With onlyNew turned on, the Actor remembers which ad IDs it has already returned and skips them.

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