# AI Search Visibility Tracker 💰$15/1k queries (`flyingnimbus/ai-search-visibility-tracker`) Actor

Track your brand in Google AI Overviews: mentions, share of voice vs competitors, cited sources, mention order and organic rank for any list of queries, with a summary per run. Fast and reliable; failed queries are free.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/flyingnimbus/ai-search-visibility-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [Rakshit Solanki](https://apify.com/flyingnimbus) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$15.00 / 1,000 query checkeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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 examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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`).

# README

### AI Search Visibility Tracker (Google AI Overviews)

Find out whether Google's **AI Overviews** mention your brand, how often they mention it compared with your competitors, which sources Google cites, and where you rank organically, for any list of searches.

#### What you get, per query

- **AI Overview found:** yes or no.
- **Full AI Overview text:** the complete answer, including the parts Google loads after the page opens.
- **Cited sources:** the site and title of each source shown with the overview.
- **Per brand (yours and each competitor):**
  - whether it was mentioned, and how many times
  - its mention order (1 = mentioned first)
  - whether it was cited as a source
  - its first organic position
- **Top 10 organic results:** title, site and display URL.

At the end of each run you also get a **summary row** with each brand's AI Overview mention rate, **share of voice**, citation rate and average organic position across all your queries.

#### Why this one

- **Reliable and fast.** In our tests, 40 out of 40 queries succeeded in under a minute, and 39 of them returned an AI Overview.
- **Handles inconsistent overviews.** Google shows AI Overviews unpredictably. If none appears, the tracker looks once more before reporting "no overview". You can turn this off.
- **Built for brand tracking, not just scraping.** Share of voice and mention order come ready-made, so you don't have to post-process the text.
- **Cheaper than all-in-one AI brand monitors.** Similar tools charge $0.05–0.20 per check.

#### Input

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `brand` | `HubSpot` |
| `brandAliases` | `["HubSpot CRM"]` |
| `brandDomain` | `hubspot.com` |
| `competitors` | `["Salesforce","Pipedrive","Zoho"]` |
| `queries` | `["best crm for small business","free crm for startups"]` |
| `country` / `language` | `us` / `en` |

#### Output example (query row, shortened)

```json
{
  "type": "query", "query": "best crm software for small business", "status": "ok", "hasAiOverview": true,
  "brands": [
    {"brand": "HubSpot", "isTarget": true, "mentionedInAiOverview": true, "mentionCount": 2, "mentionOrder": 1, "citedAsSource": false, "organicPosition": null},
    {"brand": "Pipedrive", "isTarget": false, "mentionedInAiOverview": true, "mentionCount": 1, "mentionOrder": 2, "citedAsSource": false, "organicPosition": 8}
  ],
  "aiOverviewSources": [{"site": "Reddit", "title": "Best and inexpensive CRM for small business - Reddit"}],
  "organicResults": [{"position": 1, "title": "The Best CRM Software for Small Businesses", "site": "Zoho", "displayUrl": "https://www.zoho.com › crm › ..."}],
  "aiOverviewText": "The HubSpot CRM is the best overall CRM for small businesses because..."
}
```

#### Pricing

Pay per event: you are charged once per query checked. Failed queries are not charged, and the summary row is free.

#### Notes and limits

- AI Overviews are personalised and change over time. Treat each run as a snapshot, and schedule it (for example weekly) to track trends.
- Brand matching is case-insensitive and whole-word. Use distinctive names and add aliases. A generic word such as "monday" can match unrelated text, so use "monday.com" or "monday CRM".
- Google's links are redirect tokens, so sources are reported by site name and title rather than by URL.
- This covers Google AI Overviews and organic results. It does not cover ChatGPT or Perplexity.

### More actors by flyingnimbus

All pay-per-event and fast. Failed or empty runs are free:

- [Google Trends](https://apify.com/flyingnimbus/google-trends-scraper)
- [Google Flights](https://apify.com/flyingnimbus/google-flights-scraper)
- [Google Hotels](https://apify.com/flyingnimbus/google-hotels-scraper)
- [Google Ads Transparency](https://apify.com/flyingnimbus/google-ads-transparency-scraper)
- [Google Jobs](https://apify.com/flyingnimbus/google-jobs-scraper)
- [Google Shopping](https://apify.com/flyingnimbus/google-shopping-scraper)
- [Career Site Jobs](https://apify.com/flyingnimbus/career-site-jobs-scraper)
- [YouTube Search](https://apify.com/flyingnimbus/youtube-search-intelligence-scraper)
- [Hacker News](https://apify.com/flyingnimbus/hackernews-intelligence-scraper)

# Actor input Schema

## `brand` (type: `string`):

Brand name to track, e.g. HubSpot.

## `brandAliases` (type: `array`):

Other names or product names that count as a mention, e.g. 'HubSpot CRM'.

## `brandDomain` (type: `string`):

Optional, e.g. hubspot.com. Used to detect organic rankings and citations.

## `competitors` (type: `array`):

Competitor brand names to compare share of voice against.

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Searches your customers make, e.g. 'best crm for small business'. Each query is one check.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Google country code (gl), e.g. us, ca, gb.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Interface language (hl).

## `includeOverviewText` (type: `boolean`):

Return the full AI Overview text for each query.

## `recheckIfNoOverview` (type: `boolean`):

Google shows AI Overviews inconsistently. If none appears, look once more before reporting 'no overview'.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Queries checked at once.

## `maxRetries` (type: `integer`):

Retries per query.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "brand": "HubSpot",
  "competitors": [
    "Salesforce",
    "Pipedrive",
    "Zoho"
  ],
  "queries": [
    "best crm software for small business",
    "free crm for startups"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "includeOverviewText": true,
  "recheckIfNoOverview": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "maxRetries": 3
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One row per query plus a final summary row (type=summary).

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "brand": "HubSpot",
    "competitors": [
        "Salesforce",
        "Pipedrive",
        "Zoho"
    ],
    "queries": [
        "best crm software for small business",
        "free crm for startups"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("flyingnimbus/ai-search-visibility-tracker").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "brand": "HubSpot",
    "competitors": [
        "Salesforce",
        "Pipedrive",
        "Zoho",
    ],
    "queries": [
        "best crm software for small business",
        "free crm for startups",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("flyingnimbus/ai-search-visibility-tracker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "brand": "HubSpot",
  "competitors": [
    "Salesforce",
    "Pipedrive",
    "Zoho"
  ],
  "queries": [
    "best crm software for small business",
    "free crm for startups"
  ]
}' |
apify call flyingnimbus/ai-search-visibility-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,flyingnimbus/ai-search-visibility-tracker"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/e3KXfaPqxEq9Xcm9C/builds/FvB6lURz6lUuJ481c/openapi.json