# Brand Mentions Monitoring – Find Web Mentions of Any Brand (`rowfeed/brand-mentions-monitor`) Actor

Find pages across the web that mention your brand, product or any phrase: URL, title, short snippet, date, language, country, site strength and spam score. Leave out your own sites, one mention per site or all. Brand monitoring and media monitoring, pay per mention.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/rowfeed/brand-mentions-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Rowfeed](https://apify.com/rowfeed) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Marketing, AI
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 mentions

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Brand Mentions Monitoring – Find Web Mentions of Any Brand

Find the web pages that mention your brand, product or any phrase: blogs, news, reviews, forums and company sites. Each mention comes with the URL, title, a short snippet, when it was found, language, country, sentiment and how strong the site is.

- **Brand monitoring on a schedule:** newest first, and "only the last 7 days" for a weekly alert of new mentions.
- **PR and link building:** strongest sites first, your own sites left out. A site that mentions you without a link is an easy link request.
- **Sentiment per mention:** positive, negative or neutral, to catch complaints early.
- **Any language or all of them**, up to 100 brands and 10,000 mentions per brand in one run.

Built for marketing teams, PR and media monitoring, SEO agencies, competitor tracking and AI agents.

### Example output row

```json
{"brand": "notion ai", "url": "https://www.hostinger.com/au/tutorials/notion-alternatives/", "domain": "www.hostinger.com", "title": "Replit key features", "snippet": "... far more advanced than Notion AI for developer tasks ...", "date_found": "2026-11-13T07:55:57+00:00", "language": "en", "sentiment": "neutral", "site_strength": 611, "spam_score": 0}
```

### How to use

1. Click **Try for free** (or **Start**) at the top of this page to open the input form.
2. Fill in **Brands or phrases**. Brand names, products, companies or any phrase. The form comes with a working example, so you can also run it as it is.
3. Optional: adjust **Leave out these sites**, **Max mentions per brand**, **Order**, **Language**. Every field has a sensible default.
4. Click **Start** and wait for the run to finish.
5. Download the results as Excel, CSV or JSON from the **Output** tab, or get them through the Apify API, a schedule or an integration (Make, Zapier, Google Sheets ...).

### Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

- **$0.002 per mention** in the results.
- **$0.16 per lookup** of up to 1,000 mentions for one brand.
- $0.002 per run start.

Examples: 100 mentions of one brand cost $0.36. A weekly check of 3 brands that finds 20 new mentions each costs $0.60. The pre-filled example is served from a saved run and costs only the start fee.

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| `brands` | Brands, products or phrases, up to 100. |
| `excludeDomains` | Your own sites, so only mentions elsewhere are listed. |
| `maxMentions` | Per brand, up to 10,000. |
| `sortBy` | `newest` (default) or `strongest` sites first. |
| `language` | e.g. English, German, or `Any` for all languages. |
| `sinceDays` | Only pages found in the last N days (0 = any time). |
| `onePerSite` | One page per site (default) or every page. |
| `exactPhrase` | Match the exact phrase (default) or all the words anywhere. |

### Good to know

- **Live lookups need a paid Apify plan** (any plan); the pre-filled example works on the free plan.
- Mentions come from DataForSEO's web content index, updated continuously. It covers the open web, not social networks or pages behind a login.
- `date_found` is when the page was last crawled; `date_published` is the date the page gives itself, when it has one.
- Short brand names that are common words (for example "Apple") also match other meanings; add a product word or turn on exact phrase.

### More tools from Rowfeed

- [Google News Monitor](https://apify.com/rowfeed/google-news-monitor) – news articles about any topic or brand.
- [AI Search Visibility Tracker](https://apify.com/rowfeed/ai-search-visibility-tracker) – whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity mention your brand.
- [Reddit Scraper](https://apify.com/rowfeed/reddit-scraper) – Reddit posts that mention a brand.
- [Backlinks Checker](https://apify.com/rowfeed/backlink-checker) – which sites already link to you.

# Actor input Schema

## `brands` (type: `array`):

Brand names, products, companies or any phrase. Up to 100.

## `excludeDomains` (type: `array`):

Your own sites, so only mentions elsewhere are listed.

## `maxMentions` (type: `integer`):

Up to 10,000; every 1,000 is one lookup.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Newest first for monitoring; strongest first for PR and link building.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Only pages in this language, e.g. English, German, Spanish or a code like de. Write Any for all languages.

## `sinceDays` (type: `integer`):

Only pages found in the last N days. 0 = any time. Use 7 or 30 for a weekly or monthly schedule.

## `onePerSite` (type: `boolean`):

The newest or strongest page per site. Turn off to list every page.

## `exactPhrase` (type: `boolean`):

Match the words together in this order. Turn off to match pages with all the words anywhere.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "brands": [
    "notion ai"
  ],
  "excludeDomains": [
    "notion.so",
    "notion.com"
  ],
  "maxMentions": 100,
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "language": "English",
  "sinceDays": 0,
  "onePerSite": true,
  "exactPhrase": true
}
```

# 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 = {
    "brands": [
        "notion ai"
    ],
    "excludeDomains": [
        "notion.so",
        "notion.com"
    ],
    "language": "English"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("rowfeed/brand-mentions-monitor").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 = {
    "brands": ["notion ai"],
    "excludeDomains": [
        "notion.so",
        "notion.com",
    ],
    "language": "English",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("rowfeed/brand-mentions-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "brands": [
    "notion ai"
  ],
  "excludeDomains": [
    "notion.so",
    "notion.com"
  ],
  "language": "English"
}' |
apify call rowfeed/brand-mentions-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,rowfeed/brand-mentions-monitor"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/7mxRExbp9lneMSfOW/builds/uWWMJPF9fDFmzPRBV/openapi.json