# Monitor a brand

**Use case:** 

A preconfigured run of Hacker News Scraper — Stories & Comments: Monitor a brand. Input — query: your brand · tags: story, comment · sortBy: date · maxResults: 100. Results are returned as JSON rows in the default dataset; run it as-is or change the input and run your own.

## Input

```json
{
  "query": "your brand",
  "tags": [
    "story",
    "comment"
  ],
  "sortBy": "date",
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "id": {
    "label": "Id"
  },
  "type": {
    "label": "Type"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Title"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "Url"
  },
  "author": {
    "label": "Author"
  },
  "points": {
    "label": "Points"
  },
  "numComments": {
    "label": "Num Comments"
  },
  "storyText": {
    "label": "Story Text"
  },
  "commentText": {
    "label": "Comment Text"
  },
  "parentId": {
    "label": "Parent Id"
  },
  "storyId": {
    "label": "Story Id"
  },
  "tags": {
    "label": "Tags"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Hacker News Scraper — Stories & Comments](https://apify.com/ponderable_hydrometer/hackernews-scraper.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/ponderable_hydrometer/hackernews-scraper.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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