TrustRadius Product Battlecard

Private Apify Actor: one product URL or name → reviews + product battlecard + optional multi-product compare.

Not another review dump. Positioning vs Store incumbents (e.g. zen-studio):

1. Clear failure codes (cloudflare, not_found, empty_reviews, blocked_403)
2. Product-level battlecard record (score, alternatives, ROI themes, competitors)
3. Multi-product compare in one run
4. Built-in slug resolve / search fallback when URLs or slugs go stale

v1 is private. Do not Store-publish until you decide pricing/readiness.

Requirements

• Node 18+
• Apify account with residential proxy (PROXY_RESIDENTIAL) for cloud runs
• Local residential needs Proxy external access enabled (otherwise local runs use your home IP)

TrustRadius sits behind Cloudflare. Without a real browser + residential proxy, expect blocks.

Input

Field	Default	Notes
startUrls	HubSpot + Slack	Product /reviews URLs
productQueries	[]	Names/slugs resolved via TrustRadius search
maxReviews	10	Trial-friendly
maxProducts	5	Hard cap 10
useResidentialProxy	true	Required on cloud
proxyCountryCode	US

Example

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.trustradius.com/products/hubspot-crm/reviews" }
  ],
  "productQueries": ["monday.com", "amplitude"],
  "maxReviews": 10,
  "maxProducts": 5
}

Output (recordType)

• review — title, rating, pros/cons, LTR, firmographics when present (null + warnings when missing; never invented)
• battlecard — product snapshot, alternatives, ROI themes, competitor set
• compare — written when ≥2 products succeed (side-by-side + shared alternatives/competitors)
• error — per-product soft failures with errorCode

Key-value: RUN_SUMMARY with counts and per-product status.

Pricing (PPE)

Event	Price	Trial
review	$0.003 ($3 / 1k reviews)	Configure 10 free events in Console → Monetization

Battlecard + compare are included (no separate charge in v1).

After apify push, open the Actor → Monetization → Pay-per-event → add review @ $0.003 with 10 free units. Do not Store-publish yet.

Local / cloud

npm install
npx playwright install chromium   # local only
apify login
apify run --purge                 # local (proxy external access optional)
apify push                        # private cloud Actor

Cloud smoke (2 products × 10 reviews) after push:

$apify call -i '{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.trustradius.com/products/hubspot-crm/reviews"},{"url":"https://www.trustradius.com/products/slack/reviews"}],"maxReviews":10}'

Tests

$npm test

Legal / ethics

Scrapes public TrustRadius pages only. No login. Respect robots/ToS for your use case; do not invent reviewer data; null missing PII.

This Actor and its source are private — not open source and not Store-published.