The Scripts Desk
Google Ads Scripts
Copy-paste Google Ads Scripts for monitoring, reporting and housekeeping. Read-only by default: every script reports before it ever touches an account.
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A read-only Google Ads Script that measures yesterday's cost, clicks and conversions against the average of the same weekday over the previous four weeks, and flags any metric that has drifted past your tolerance.
An Adsscripts.com tool that scans every account under an MCC for negative keywords silently blocking active keywords and search terms.
Brainlabs Digital's open-source GitHub repository consolidating its published Google Ads scripts into one maintained, version-controlled collection.
A read-only Google Ads Script that compares month-to-date spend with where the month should be, projects the landing figure, and emails you when the pace drifts.
A read-only script that queries the change_event log every few hours and emails you when someone makes a burst of edits or removes a campaign or budget.
A read-only Google Ads Script that checks every serving ad for a disapproval or a limited-serving status each day, lists the policy topics behind each one, and optionally emails you the digest.
A read-only Google Ads Script that gathers the final URLs from your enabled keywords and ads, requests each one, and flags any answering 4xx or 5xx into a Google Sheet and optional email.
A read-only Google Ads Script that ranks every location by spend against conversions, writes the worst offenders to a Sheet and optionally emails the wasted-spend list.
Google's own gallery of ready-made Ads Scripts for anomaly detection, budget management and reporting, installable straight from the Ads UI documentation.
A curated index of 400-plus free Google Ads scripts covering bidding, ad testing and reporting, maintained by a dedicated Ads scripting specialist since 2019.
The community's standard script for splitting Performance Max spend and results by channel, with search category and asset group detail written to a Google Sheet.
A read-only script that reads responsive search ad asset ratings, lists every headline and description Google has labelled LOW to a Sheet, and never touches the ads.
A read-only Google Ads Script that breaks 30 days of search terms into one, two and three word n-grams, ranks the spend that converts nothing, and writes the full table to a Google Sheet.
A free, open-source Google Ads Script that scans placements across Display, Performance Max and Demand Gen and semi-automates excluding the junk, from a maintainer still shipping in 2026.
A free Google Ads Script gist from Frederick Vallaeys that pulls Performance Max search terms and category labels into a Sheet, prising open a box Google's reporting keeps shut.
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