Brand Monitoring API: Mentions Radar for News & Reddit

One run, nine sources. Type your brand (or a competitor, a product, a person) and get every recent mention from Google News, Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, Mastodon, YouTube, Stack Overflow, GitHub and Lemmy, in one clean dataset, each with its sentiment (positive, negative or neutral).

Turn on alert mode and schedule it daily: every run returns only the mentions that are new since the last one. It's a social listening tool for a fraction of what monitoring tools charge per month.

No accounts, no API keys, no browser.

Why this one?

• All the places people talk, at once. Mainstream news, communities, developer forums, video and the decentralized social web, without running nine scrapers and merging nine formats.
• Sentiment on every mention. Spot complaints and praise instantly (English and Spanish).
• Alert mode. Only new mentions since your last run: connect it to Slack or email and get a daily digest.
• Engagement included: likes, reposts, comments, points and views where the source shares them.
• Clean and deduplicated. One format, newest first, no repeats.

Use cases

• Brand monitoring and PR: catch every story and post about your company, early.
• Competitor tracking: follow launches, complaints and buzz around competitors.
• Customer feedback: collect real opinions and bug reports from Reddit, forums and GitHub.
• Crisis detection: a spike of negative mentions? See it the same day.
• Market research and content ideas: what people say about a product category, right now.

Input

Field	What it does
Brands, products or keywords	One per line. Multi-word names are searched as an exact phrase.
Sources	Pick any of the nine. All by default.
Mentions from the last	24 hours, 7 days, 30 days or 12 months.
Max mentions per source	Newest first, up to 100 per brand and source.
Only new mentions (alert mode)	Returns only mentions not seen in previous runs.
Exclude mentions containing	Drop noise, e.g. homonyms.
News language / country	The Google News edition (en/US, es/ES...).

{
  "brands": ["Notion", "Duolingo"],
  "timeRange": "7d",
  "maxPerSource": 30,
  "onlyNewMentions": true
}

Output

{
  "brand": "Duolingo",
  "source": "bluesky",
  "type": "post",
  "title": null,
  "text": "Day 400 of my Duolingo streak and I finally understand Spanish TV. Love this app!",
  "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/someone.bsky.social/post/3myorfj7efx2j",
  "author": "someone.bsky.social",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-25T08:17:08Z",
  "sentiment": "positive",
  "sentimentScore": 1.0,
  "likes": 12,
  "reposts": 2,
  "comments": 3,
  "score": null,
  "views": null,
  "reactions": null,
  "community": null,
  "linkedUrl": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-25T09:00:00Z"
}

A SOURCES_REPORT record in the run's key-value store shows how many mentions each source returned, and any source that was temporarily unavailable.

Good to know

• Sentiment is a fast word-based score (English and Spanish). It's great for sorting and spotting trends, not a full language model.
• Mastodon is searched by hashtag (#yourbrand). YouTube dates are approximate ("2 days ago").
• Generic words (like "notion" or "apple") also bring other meanings: use Exclude mentions containing to remove them.
• Some sources limit how often they can be queried. If one is busy, the run continues with the others and the report says which one.

Integrations

Schedule it daily (Apify Schedules) and send new mentions to Slack, email, Google Sheets, Notion, Zapier, Make or n8n with Apify integrations.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free (or Start) at the top of this page.
2. Fill in the input, or keep the example to see it working in seconds.
3. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
4. Download the results as Excel, CSV, JSON or HTML, or get them through the Apify API.

How much does it cost?

$0.003 per mention ($3.00 per 1,000). No start fee, no monthly fee, and you only pay for the results saved to your dataset.

Example	Cost
Weekly mentions of one brand	about $0.45
Daily alerts for 3 brands for a month	about $4.50

Apify's free plan includes monthly credit, so you can try it for free.

FAQ

Which sources does it monitor?

Google News, Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, Mastodon, YouTube, Stack Overflow, GitHub and Lemmy, in one run.

Can I get alerts only for new mentions?

Yes. Turn on "Only new mentions" and schedule it daily: mentions you already have are skipped and free.

Is it a cheaper alternative to Mention, Brand24 or Awario?

Yes for most small brands: there is no monthly subscription, you pay only per mention found.

Does it detect sentiment?

Yes, a fast positive / negative / neutral score for English and Spanish.

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