ads.txt
An IAB ads.txt listing authorised digital sellers with account IDs and relationships (sample data), for testing ads.txt parsers and ad-fraud tooling.
# ads.txt - Authorized Digital Sellers (sample fixture, not real accounts)
# Format: <exchange domain>, <publisher account id>, <relationship>, <certification authority id>
greenad.example, pub-0000000000000000, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0
adexchange.example, 540123, RESELLER
video-ssp.example, 7788, DIRECT
contact=ads@example.com
subdomain=news.example.com
Specifications
- Format
- ads.txt
- Encoding
- UTF-8
- Data
- fictional example.com
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Exercise ads.txt in its crawlers workflow. An IAB ads.txt listing authorised digital sellers with account IDs and relationships (sample data), for testing ads.txt parsers and ad-fraud tooling.
- Expected result
- 7 text lines, decoded as UTF-8; first nonempty line is `# ads.txt - Authorized Digital Sellers (sample fixture, not real accounts)`. Declared feature checks: data=fictional example.com.
What is a .txt file?
TXT is a plain-text file containing unformatted character data with no styling or structure beyond line breaks. Its interpretation depends on character encoding, most commonly UTF-8, and on line-ending convention. It is the most universal and portable text container.
How to use this file
Use an example TXT to test encoding detection, line-ending (LF versus CRLF) handling, and any tool that reads or streams raw text input.
How to use this file for testing
“ads.txt” is a deterministic Testaroo fixture for Web assets, Editor testing. Favicons, web app manifests, service workers, robots and sitemap files, Open Graph images, and .well-known resources, for testing web tooling, crawlers, PWA installers, and asset pipelines.
Documented properties for this file: UTF-8 · ads.txt. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such, expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Web-platform fixtures are standards-compliant samples against fictional example.com data. Test crawlers, PWA installers and manifest validators, favicon/icon pipelines, service-worker registration, or .well-known parsers against the documented structure.
Generated by generation/web_assets.py. Free for any use, no attribution required, license.
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