This is a series of scripts that takes Google's political ad transparency data and makes the ad content searchable as, ironically, the world's most powerful search company does not make their ad data searchable.

It can also takes the ad targeting information and map it to electorates, but this only works for postcodes at the moment so isn't in the main group of scripts yet.

It is aimed at Australian content, but most of the scripts could be applied to all ad content if you'd like to use it elsewhere.

The current output is a work-in-progress, but you can find the latest file here as gzipped csv or json

• Gets the text content from text ads
• Gets the YouTube title for YouTube ads
• Gets the YouTube transcript for YouTube ads if it is available
• Gets the image URL for image ads
• Runs images through OCR and adds text to database

• Figure out if there's a good way to get text from animated html ads
• Run the non-YouTube video ads through speech-to-text and put the text in the database
• Add electorates for Australian ads (this is mostly done but I need to run it over the whole thing)