# Public Product Comparison Evidence Agent (`jacksu/public-product-comparison-evidence-agent`) Actor Extract public side-by-side product comparison evidence: compared products, criteria, table rows, claims, winner hints, risk labels, hashes, and useful-result pricing. - **URL**: https://apify.com/jacksu/public-product-comparison-evidence-agent.md - **Developed by:** [jack su](https://apify.com/jacksu) (community) - **Categories:** Business, AI - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $5.00 / 1,000 useful product comparison evidence results 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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. Actors are written with capital "A". ## 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. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Public Product Comparison Evidence Agent Turn public compare, versus, and side-by-side product pages into structured evidence rows for buyer research, competitive intelligence, and AI-agent workflows. The Actor focuses on explicit side-by-side evidence, especially public comparison tables. It extracts compared product hints, comparison criteria, table evidence rows, supporting narrative claims, winner hints, pricing mentions, calls to action, risk labels, stable hashes, and change status. It uses lightweight public HTTP fetching only. It does not log in, submit forms, follow private-network URLs, render browsers, or fetch query-token URLs. ### When To Use It - You have a public `X vs Y`, `compare X and Y`, or side-by-side product table. - You want structured evidence instead of a raw web page summary. - You need to monitor whether a comparison page changed without paying for unchanged repeats. - You want useful-result pricing: failed, unsafe, generic, focus-mismatched, and unchanged records are written without the useful-result event. ### Input - `comparisonPageUrls`: public HTTP/HTTPS comparison page URLs. - `focusProducts`: optional product or brand terms that must appear before a useful event is charged. - `focusCriteria`: optional comparison criteria terms that must appear before a useful event is charged. - `previousComparisonRecords`: previous dataset records from this Actor. If the `productComparisonHash` is unchanged for the same URL, no useful event is charged. - `requestTimeoutSecs`: public page request timeout. ### Output Highlights - `comparedProductHints` - `comparisonCriteriaHints` - `comparisonEvidenceRows` - `winnerClaimHints` - `pricingMentionHints` - `biasDisclosureHints` - `comparisonEvidenceScore` - `productComparisonHash` - `changeStatus` ### Pricing Event The useful-result event is: `useful-product-comparison-evidence-result` The Actor should not charge merely because an error or partial record is written to the dataset. # Actor input Schema ## `comparisonPageUrls` (type: `array`): Public HTTP/HTTPS compare, versus, or side-by-side pages. Query parameters, fragments, credentials, path params, private-network hosts, and token-like account paths are rejected. ## `focusProducts` (type: `array`): Optional product or brand terms that must appear in visible public evidence before the useful result event is charged. ## `focusCriteria` (type: `array`): Optional comparison criteria such as pricing, security, support, integrations, automation, or migration. If provided, at least one must appear before the useful result event is charged. ## `previousComparisonRecords` (type: `array`): Optional previous records from this Actor. If productComparisonHash is unchanged for the same URL, the record is written without charging the useful event. ## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`): Maximum time in seconds to wait for the public page response. ## Actor input object example ```json { "comparisonPageUrls": [ "https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/comparison/jira-vs-asana" ], "focusProducts": [], "focusCriteria": [], "previousComparisonRecords": [], "requestTimeoutSecs": 20 } ```` # Actor output Schema ## `datasetId` (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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = {}; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("jacksu/public-product-comparison-evidence-agent").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = {} # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("jacksu/public-product-comparison-evidence-agent").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{}' | apify call jacksu/public-product-comparison-evidence-agent --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=jacksu/public-product-comparison-evidence-agent", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Public Product Comparison Evidence Agent", "description": "Extract public side-by-side product comparison evidence: compared products, criteria, table rows, claims, winner hints, risk labels, hashes, and useful-result pricing.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "f1d9YruQAnCVk8zIQ" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/jacksu~public-product-comparison-evidence-agent/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-jacksu-public-product-comparison-evidence-agent", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/jacksu~public-product-comparison-evidence-agent/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-jacksu-public-product-comparison-evidence-agent", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/jacksu~public-product-comparison-evidence-agent/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-jacksu-public-product-comparison-evidence-agent", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "comparisonPageUrls" ], "properties": { "comparisonPageUrls": { "title": "Comparison page URLs", "minItems": 1, "maxItems": 20, "type": "array", "description": "Public HTTP/HTTPS compare, versus, or side-by-side pages. Query parameters, fragments, credentials, path params, private-network hosts, and token-like account paths are rejected.", "items": { "type": "string" }, "default": [ "https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/comparison/jira-vs-asana" ] }, "focusProducts": { "title": "Focus products", "type": "array", "description": "Optional product or brand terms that must appear in visible public evidence before the useful result event is charged.", "items": { "type": "string" }, "default": [] }, "focusCriteria": { "title": "Focus criteria", "type": "array", "description": "Optional comparison criteria such as pricing, security, support, integrations, automation, or migration. If provided, at least one must appear before the useful result event is charged.", "items": { "type": "string" }, "default": [] }, "previousComparisonRecords": { "title": "Previous comparison records", "type": "array", "description": "Optional previous records from this Actor. If productComparisonHash is unchanged for the same URL, the record is written without charging the useful event.", "items": { "type": "object" }, "default": [] }, "requestTimeoutSecs": { "title": "Request timeout", "minimum": 5, "maximum": 60, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum time in seconds to wait for the public page response.", "default": 20 } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```