# Product Launch Alerts (`nexgenwatch/product-launch-alerts`) Actor

Structured major product announcements alerts, classified from official press-release headlines.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgenwatch/product-launch-alerts.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGen Watch](https://apify.com/nexgenwatch) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $33.50 / 1,000 product launch alerts

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Product Launch Alerts

Structured **major product announcements** alerts, classified from official press-release headlines.
Give it public official-newsroom feeds (RSS / Atom / JSON Feed); it reads each release's
headline and metadata and emits one alert per headline that clearly states this event. It defaults to the U.S. SEC
press-release feed and accepts any public newsroom feed you add. Robots is honoured per feed.

### What you get

One alert per classified event, carrying **structured facts only** — company, product, category, date, and the source link. The actor
reads the headline and feed metadata; it **never stores the article text** (you get the event,
not the wire's words). A headline that does not clearly state this event type is not
classified and never bills.

### Classification discipline

Each event type is classified on unambiguous headline signals, and the classifier is mutually
exclusive with the other event families — an M\&A headline is never billed as a partnership,
a "launches operations in <place>" headline is an expansion (not a product launch), and so on.

### How it behaves

Each configured feed is fetched only if its robots.txt allows the path (a disallowed feed is
skipped, never bypassed). If every feed fails to load or parse, the run fails loudly (an outage
is never an empty success). A reachable window with no matching event is a genuine empty result:
it succeeds and bills nothing. `maxRecords` caps the count (a buyer bound, not an outage).

### Pricing

| Event | FREE | BRONZE | SILVER | GOLD+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `apify-actor-start` (one-time actor start) | $0.02 | $0.02 | $0.02 | $0.02 |
| `product_launch_alert` (per classified event alert) | $0.05 | $0.045 | $0.04 | $0.0335 |

You are charged once per classified alert delivered. The one-time start fee is $0.02.
Unclassified headlines, genuine-empty windows, robots-blocked feeds, and outages bill nothing.

# Actor input Schema

## `sources` (type: `array`):

Public official-newsroom press-release feeds (RSS 2.0, Atom, or JSON Feed). Each is an exact public HTTPS URL plus a publisher label. Robots is honoured per feed. No licensed press wires, no login/paywall.

## `maxRecords` (type: `integer`):

Upper bound on alerts delivered this run (a buyer-requested cap).

## `userAgent` (type: `string`):

Optional override for the identified contact User-Agent.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "sources": [
    {
      "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission",
      "url": "https://www.sec.gov/news/pressreleases.rss",
      "format": "rss"
    }
  ],
  "maxRecords": 200
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "sources": [
        {
            "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission",
            "url": "https://www.sec.gov/news/pressreleases.rss",
            "format": "rss"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgenwatch/product-launch-alerts").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 = { "sources": [{
            "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission",
            "url": "https://www.sec.gov/news/pressreleases.rss",
            "format": "rss",
        }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgenwatch/product-launch-alerts").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 '{
  "sources": [
    {
      "publisher": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission",
      "url": "https://www.sec.gov/news/pressreleases.rss",
      "format": "rss"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call nexgenwatch/product-launch-alerts --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nexgenwatch/product-launch-alerts",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/NSx6HVmPgX0TNf5Qb/builds/HJjbjcb7m9MTM15ON/openapi.json