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News & Competitor Monitoring Bundle

Monitor competitors, brand monitoring signals, topics, RSS feeds, and market news, then save prioritized AI-ready records for alerts and analysis.

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Pay per usage

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scraping automation

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Categories

Lead generation

Business

Workflow

workflow

Optional

Business workflow label stored on each output item.

Type:string

Default:competitor-monitor

Options:

competitor-monitorbrand-news-watchlocal-news-monitorcustom

Topic

topic

Optional

Single topic to monitor. Used when Topics is empty.

Type:string

Default:AI startup funding

Topics

topics

Optional

Topics to monitor, one per line.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Brand

brand

Optional

Single brand to monitor. Used when Brands is empty.

Type:string

Default:

Brands

brands

Optional

Brands to monitor, one per line.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Competitor

competitor

Optional

Single competitor to monitor. Used when Competitors is empty.

Type:string

Default:

Competitors

competitors

Optional

Competitors to monitor, one per line.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Include manual items

includeManualItems

Optional

Normalize manually provided news or competitor-monitoring records.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Manual items

manualItems

Optional

Optional articles, announcements, or competitor updates to normalize.

Type:object[]

Default:

[]

Collect web signals

includeWebDiscovery

Optional

Collect supporting news and competitor signals using direct web search.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Custom search queries

searchQueries

Optional

Optional custom search queries, one per line. If empty, the Actor generates topic/brand/competitor queries.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Search mode

searchMode

Optional

DuckDuckGo vertical to query.

Type:string

Default:news

Options:

newsdefault

Search providers

searchProviders

Optional

Search providers to use. Brave requires BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY or braveApiKey.

Type:string[]

Default:

[
  "duckduckgo"
]

Brave API key

braveApiKey

Optional

Optional Brave Search API key. Prefer using the BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY environment variable.

Type:string

Include RSS feeds

includeRssFeeds

Optional

Fetch and normalize RSS/Atom feeds listed in RSS feed URLs.

Type:boolean

Default:false

RSS feed URLs

rssFeedUrls

Optional

RSS or Atom feed URLs, one per line.

Type:string

Default:

Extra match keywords

keywords

Optional

Extra relevance keywords, one per line.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Max output records

maxResults

Optional

Maximum normalized records saved by the bundle.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:1000

Default:25

Max web queries

maxWebQueries

Optional

Maximum generated/custom web queries to execute.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:100

Default:6

Max web results

maxWebResults

Optional

Maximum web-discovery results to normalize.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:1000

Default:20

Max RSS items

maxRssItems

Optional

Maximum RSS items to normalize.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:1000

Default:20

Mock mode

mockMode

Optional

Generate sample news monitoring records without network access.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Fail on no results

failOnNoResults

Optional

Fail the run if no normalized records are produced.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Request timeout seconds

requestTimeoutSecs

Optional

Timeout for web search and RSS requests.

Type:integer

Minimum:5

Maximum:120

Default:20

Use Apify Proxy

useApifyProxy

Optional

Enable Apify Proxy for direct web discovery.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Advanced Apify Proxy or custom proxy settings.

Type:object

Default:

{}

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