# Track a Competitor's New Pages, Jobs, Ads and News

**Use case:** 

One competitor report for notion.so: new website pages from its sitemaps, open and new jobs, Google ads and recent news. The first run saves a baseline; schedule it weekly to get only what changed.

## Input

```json
{
  "competitors": [
    "notion.so | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/notion"
  ],
  "trackPages": true,
  "trackJobs": true,
  "trackAds": true,
  "trackNews": true,
  "adsRegion": "US",
  "maxItemsPerSection": 20,
  "maxPagesPerSite": 2000,
  "maxAdsPerSite": 50,
  "language": "en-US",
  "country": "US",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "domain": {
    "label": "Competitor",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "reportDate": {
    "label": "Report date",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "previousRun": {
    "label": "Compared with",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "summary.newPages": {
    "label": "New pages",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "summary.newJobs": {
    "label": "New jobs",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "summary.newAds": {
    "label": "New ads",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "summary.newsMentions": {
    "label": "News mentions",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "totals.openJobs": {
    "label": "Open jobs",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "totals.jobBoard": {
    "label": "Job board"
  },
  "warnings": {
    "label": "Warnings",
    "format": "array"
  }
}
```

## How it works

### 1. Sign up on Apify or log in

The Competitor Monitoring & Tracking: Pages, Jobs, Ads, News Actor is ready to run with the inputs already set for "Track a Competitor's New Pages, Jobs, Ads and News". [Sign up or log in](https://console.apify.com/create-task-from-example/yRXKxKLPH5p7LA0N9) and you'll land in Apify Console with a copy of this exact task.

### 2. Start the "Track a Competitor's New Pages, Jobs, Ads and News" task

The Competitor Monitoring & Tracking: Pages, Jobs, Ads, News Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like competitors, new website pages (sitemaps), and more, to match your specific use case.

### 3. Receive the "Track a Competitor's New Pages, Jobs, Ads and News" output

Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as competitor, report date, compared with, and more.

### 4. Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also [run the "Track a Competitor's New Pages, Jobs, Ads and News" task via API](https://apify.com/data-done-right/competitor-monitoring.md).

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Competitor Monitoring & Tracking: Pages, Jobs, Ads, News](https://apify.com/data-done-right/competitor-monitoring.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/data-done-right/competitor-monitoring.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/data-done-right/competitor-monitoring.md

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).