Brand Handle Monitor
Pricing
from $0.50 / 1,000 platform checks
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Brand Handle Monitor
Monitor usernames and brand handles across public platforms and detect when handles become claimed, released, or change status between runs.
Brand Handle Monitor
Pricing
from $0.50 / 1,000 platform checks
Monitor usernames and brand handles across public platforms and detect when handles become claimed, released, or change status between runs.
Handles to check. Accepts a bare handle (acme), an @handle (@acme) or a profile URL (https://github.com/acme) - all are reduced to the bare handle. Duplicates are removed, up to 50 handles per run.
[ "apify"]scan is a stateless snapshot. monitor compares this run against the stored baseline for the same monitor ID and reports what changed since the previous run.
Identifies the baseline to compare against. Required in monitor mode. Use one stable ID per brand or watchlist, for example acme-brand. Two different IDs never share state.
Platform names to check. Leave empty to use the curated default set, which contains only platforms verified to answer reliably from the Apify cloud. Any of the 400+ catalogue names is accepted, for example GitHub, X, Reddit, Twitch - note that some of those may return UNKNOWN because they block datacenter IP ranges.
[]When off, only claimed and inconclusive results reach the dataset. The baseline still records everything, so change detection is unaffected.
How long to wait for a single platform before giving up. A timeout is reported as UNKNOWN, never as an available handle.