Instagram Content Gap & Creative Momentum Intelligence

Analyze Instagram posts and Reels for creative momentum, hook themes, engagement velocity, content gaps and competitor changes instead of stopping at raw extraction.

Why use this Actor

Content exports contain metrics but marketing teams still have to determine which formats and themes are accelerating and what competitors are leaving uncovered. This Actor converts structured source data into a decision-ready result so recurring workflows do not need a separate manual analysis step. It supports repeatable monitoring, scheduled execution, dashboards, and agent workflows. Scores are deterministic and traceable to observable input fields.

Key features

• Unified post/Reel input from JSON, Dataset or public URLs when available.
• Creative momentum score combining reach, engagement and recency signals.
• Deterministic theme and keyword extraction for content-gap discovery.
• Current-vs-previous snapshot deltas for rising and decaying creatives.
• Agent-ready SCALE/TEST/REFRESH/RETIRE recommendations.
• Structured Dataset output for API, Task, schedule, and agent use.
• Current-versus-previous snapshot analysis when prior records are supplied.
• Limited-permission, data-first execution design.

Input

The JSON input schema includes explicit fields and prefilled examples. Important fields include currentItems, currentDatasetId, previousItems, previousDatasetId, queries, urls, directFetch, language, countryCode, maxResults, maxItems. Inline records are convenient for small tests. Dataset identifiers are better for recurring pipelines because one Actor can consume the structured output of another without copying rows manually. Stable entity identifiers improve snapshot comparison.

Output

Results are written to the default Apify Dataset as structured JSON. Output fields include ok, sourceType, analysisKind, entityId, signalScore, changeScore, agentAction, agentReason, metrics, changes, observedAt, source. These fields are designed for dashboards, databases, automation tools, and downstream Actors. Decision fields summarize observable evidence instead of returning only a large unranked export.

Example

Run the prefilled example once in the Apify Console. For a recurring workflow, save the current Dataset or upstream Dataset ID and provide a later snapshot on the next run. Compare the emitted scores, changes, and action fields. Through API or public Tasks, keep the same field mapping between runs so time-series comparisons remain meaningful.

Use cases

• recurring competitive monitoring.
• AI-agent and automation workflows.
• market research and prospect prioritization.
• period-over-period change detection.
• Scheduled daily or weekly monitoring with repeatable decision logic.
• Agent workflows that need compact actions rather than raw rows.
• Research pipelines that need stable JSON and traceable signals.

Pricing

The Actor uses pay-per-event pricing with one primary measurable result. The base design price is USD 0.0035 per primary result before Apify tier discounts. There is no mandatory external AI subscription in the deterministic scoring path. Platform usage varies with run duration, memory, and data volume. The release gate checks margin from real validation costs before publication.

Limitations

• Only public or appropriately licensed data should be supplied or fetched.
• Instagram and TikTok direct public-URL mode is best-effort; Dataset input is the stable mode when those sites block anonymous requests.
• Signals are deterministic decision support, not guarantees.
• Public-source availability and upstream schemas can change over time.
• Missing source fields can reduce the strength of a score or comparison.
• Decision scores are prioritization signals, not promises of commercial or operational outcomes.
• Users remain responsible for source access rules and platform terms.

Operational notes

For production use, prefer scheduled runs with stable input definitions. Review the Dataset after the first production run before connecting downstream systems. Preserve raw snapshots when a source changes schema so transformations remain auditable. Market evidence and competitor capabilities are rechecked before publication because Store conditions can change.

Gen2 decision intelligence

This Actor preserves its original analysis and adds a decision layer with baseline awareness, regression detection, confidence, GO/WARN/BLOCK executive output, and an optional economic-impact estimate. Economic estimates are produced only when the user supplies valuePerImpactUnitUsd; the result states the calculation basis instead of inventing monetary value.