AI Citation Source Miner (GEO/AEO)

Which websites does AI cite when recommending products in your category? Find out — so you know exactly where to get mentioned.

AI answer engines don't pull recommendations from nowhere — they cite sources (Reddit threads, review sites, listicles, Wikipedia, news, vendor pages). If you're not on the sources the AI trusts for your category, you won't be recommended. This Actor maps that citation landscape.

Give it your brand/category (and your domain). It asks an AI with live web search a set of buyer questions, collects every source the AI cites, then classifies each one: what type it is, how realistic it is to earn a mention there, whether you already own it, and how to get cited there.

Quick start

1. Fill in the input — set the fields in the input tab (prefilled with a working example).
2. Click Start — the Actor runs and writes one record per item to the dataset.
3. Get your data — export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it via the API.

👉 Make this continuous with Citely

This Actor gives you a one-time snapshot of where AI engines cite. Citely turns that snapshot into an always-on SEO + AEO system: weekly AI-citation tracking with share-of-voice trends, a self-learning CTR title optimizer that auto-applies to your pages, Google Search Console insights with click-collapse alarms, and JSON-LD validation. Connect once, it runs daily → https://datatools-hub.vercel.app/citely

// input
{ "brand": "Notion", "domain": "notion.so", "topic": "note-taking and productivity apps" }

// per-source output
{ "domain": "reddit.com", "sourceType": "reddit", "citationCount": 4, "youOwnIt": false,
  "replicability": "medium", "note": "Engage in r/productivity and r/Notion threads; AI frequently cites Reddit discussions for this category.",
  "prompts": ["Best note-taking app for teams?", "Notion vs Obsidian?"] }

Plus a run SUMMARY: ownedCitationRate, topSources, sourceTypeBreakdown, and contentGapPrompts (questions where your site is NOT cited — your biggest GEO opportunities).

Why this matters

Most "AI visibility" tools tell you whether you're mentioned. This tells you the levers — the exact sources feeding the AI — so your content/PR team knows where to act. Semrush itself notes most tools don't expose which sites are cited; this does.

Use cases

• GEO/AEO strategy — find the sources to target to get recommended by AI.
• Content & digital PR — prioritise placements (Reddit, review sites, listicles) by how much the AI cites them.
• Competitive intel — see the citation real estate you don't own yet.
• Agent tool — via Apify MCP, an agent can map a category's AI-citation sources on demand.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
brand	string	— (required)	Brand/category.
domain	string	—	Your domain (owned-source detection).
topic	string	—	Category for prompt generation.
prompts	string[]	—	Your own questions; else auto-generated.
promptCount	integer	5	Prompts to generate.
model	string	gpt-4o-mini	OpenAI model.

Output

One record per cited source, ranked by citation frequency, plus a GEO report in the run SUMMARY.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: one prompt-checked event per prompt searched.

Environment variables

Variable	Required	Purpose
OPENAI_API_KEY	Yes	Web-search answers + source classification.

License

ISC.

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