# GTA 6 Countdown & Developments Tracker — diffed, no leaks (`topsail/gta6-tracker`) Actor GTA 6 release date countdown, confirmed facts, diffed developments, news and market odds as clean JSON — unofficial, robots-compliant. - **URL**: https://apify.com/topsail/gta6-tracker.md - **Developed by:** [Connor Teskey](https://apify.com/topsail) (community) - **Categories:** News, Automation, Agents - **Stats:** 3 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $5.00 / 1,000 results 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## GTA 6 Countdown & Developments Tracker **One compliant JSON feed for everything GTA 6: a live release countdown, confirmed facts, a diffed changelog of what just changed, filtered news, and a public-metrics hype index.** Built for AI agents, RAG pipelines, Discord and Telegram bot builders, countdown sites, and dashboard makers who need structured GTA 6 data without scraping leaks, fighting walled pages, or re-polling ten outlets and de-duping headlines. Every run returns one clean state object plus the individual news and change events behind it. > **Unofficial.** Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive. Aggregates only publicly available information and official announcements. Tracks no leaked, hacked, or proprietary material. ### What you get Three record types in the dataset, plus a per-source `HEALTH` report and the latest `SNAPSHOT` in the key-value store. | Record `type` | What it is | |---|---| | `snapshot` | Live countdown (days and hours to launch), confirmed facts (release date, platforms, trailers, pre-order status), a Wikidata release-date cross-check, and the hype index with release-date market odds | | `development` | A diffed change event vs the previous run — the date slips, pre-orders open, a new trailer drops. The value is detecting the change, not relisting news | | `news` | GTA-specific coverage from Bing News RSS plus permitted-outlet RSS filtered to GTA/Rockstar items; articles that cover a leak or rumor are tagged `rumor: true` with a credibility note | ### Quick start The prefilled input runs a complete demo out of the box: ```json { "newsSources": [ { "url": "https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=%22GTA+6%22&format=rss", "category": "aggregated", "kind": "rss", "keep_all": true }, { "url": "https://www.gamespot.com/feeds/news/", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" }, { "url": "https://www.eurogamer.net/feed", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" }, { "url": "https://www.pcgamer.com/rss/", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" }, { "url": "https://www.polygon.com/rss/index.xml", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" } ], "includeMarketOdds": true, "includeHype": true, "youtubeTrailerIds": ["QdBZY2csoPo"], "maxItemsPerSource": 25, "respectRobots": true } ```` A run returns one `snapshot`, any `development` events, and up to 25 news items per source — typically a few dozen records in one to two minutes. ### Output example A `snapshot` record, adapted from a real run: ```json { "type": "snapshot", "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI", "release_date": "2026-11-19", "days_remaining": 164, "hours_remaining": 3936, "is_released": false, "platforms": ["PlayStation 5", "Xbox Series X|S"], "preorder_status": "Expected late June 2026", "trailers": [ { "name": "Trailer 1", "date": "2023-12-05" }, { "name": "Trailer 2", "date": "2025-05-06" } ], "hype": { "momentum_pct": 18.4, "wikipedia_pageviews": { "latest_day_views": 41032, "avg_7d": 38110, "momentum_pct_7d_vs_prior_7d": 18.4 }, "market_odds": { "source": "kalshi", "series": "KXGTA6", "market": "Will GTA 6 release by Nov 30, 2026?", "implied_probability": 0.86 } }, "rumor_watch": { "coverage_items": 2, "note": "count of reputable-outlet items covering a leak/rumor this run" }, "fetched_at": "2026-06-08T00:00:00+00:00" } ``` ### Why this one - **Server-side change detection.** Each run diffs the tracked facts (release date, platforms, pre-order status, publisher, trailers) against the previous run and emits `development` events. One feed says "the release date just changed from X to Y" — you do not re-poll ten sites and de-dupe headlines yourself. - **Hype from public aggregate metrics, never scraped posts.** Wikipedia pageviews (official Wikimedia API) with a 7-day momentum percentage, optional Rockstar trailer stats via the official YouTube Data API, Google Trends search interest (best-effort), and Kalshi prediction-market odds on the release date holding. - **Rumor signal without rumor scraping.** Reputable-outlet articles that cover a leak or insider claim are delivered and tagged `rumor: true` — reporting about the claim, never the leaked material itself. - **Selector-free, self-healing news parsing.** Feeds are parsed by shape (RSS/Atom fields, scored article links), not brittle CSS selectors, so a site redesign degrades to a flagged zero-yield source instead of silently breaking the feed. - **Facts cross-checked each run.** The curated, dated fact baseline is checked against Wikidata's release-date claims (P577) every run, so the countdown target stays current. ### Compliance and reliability Topsail actors are built compliance-first and ship with self-healing plumbing: - **robots.txt is always respected — fail-closed.** If a robots check cannot complete, the source is skipped, never scraped. There is no input to turn this off. - **Sources are public and permitted only.** This actor reads permissively licensed Wikidata facts, syndication-intended news RSS feeds, and official public APIs (Wikimedia pageviews, Kalshi markets, optional YouTube Data API) — never leaked, proprietary, paywalled, or login-gated material. - **Transient failures retry once with backoff**; persistent failures are reported, not hidden. - **Every run writes a per-source HEALTH report** to the key-value store, so you can see exactly which sources delivered and which were blocked, empty, or erroring. - **No PII, no paywalled or login-gated content, no circumvention.** By design, this actor does not scrape Reddit, forums, or Discord: Reddit blocks automated access and its terms bar resale of its data, and forum robots.txt rules fail-closed at runtime anyway. Insider chatter reaches you as tagged outlet coverage instead. ### Pricing Pay per result: $5.00 per 1,000 dataset results. You pay only for records actually delivered — sources that are robots-blocked, erroring, or empty produce no results and cost nothing. A default run typically yields a few dozen to about 130 records depending on the news cycle, so a scheduled hourly feed costs cents per day. ### Honest limits - The first run emits no `development` events — there is no previous state to diff against yet. - Google Trends has no official API; the unofficial endpoint is best-effort, and the metric is simply absent when it fails. - YouTube trailer statistics require a free YouTube Data API v3 key; without one, that metric is skipped. - Rockstar's own Newswire exposes no reachable public RSS feed, so official posts surface through the Bing News feed and the confirmed-facts object rather than a direct Newswire source. - Kalshi's dedicated GTA 6 series (`KXGTA6`) can be illiquid; the market is still reported, with a null probability and a note. - Confirmed facts start from a curated, dated baseline (see `facts_as_of` in the snapshot), cross-checked against Wikidata each run. ### FAQ **When does GTA 6 come out?** The currently tracked release date is 2026-11-19 (delayed from 2026-05-26). The snapshot carries the live GTA 6 release date countdown, and a `development` event fires the moment the tracked date changes. **Does it track leaks or insider rumors?** No leaked material, ever. Articles from reputable outlets that cover a rumor are included and tagged `rumor: true` with a note, so you get the insider signal as reporting about it. **Can I power a Discord bot or a countdown website with this?** Yes. Schedule the actor and read the dataset or the `SNAPSHOT` key — the structured JSON is built for GTA 6 countdown sites, Discord bots, and dashboards. **How often should I run it?** Hourly to daily for most uses. The developments diff compares against the previous run, so a steady schedule gives the cleanest changelog. **Is this affiliated with Rockstar Games or Take-Two?** No. It is an unofficial GTA 6 tracker that aggregates publicly available information and official announcements only. ### More compliant data feeds from Topsail - [Site to Markdown](https://apify.com/topsail/site-to-markdown) — any site to clean LLM-ready markdown - [Commodity Intel](https://apify.com/topsail/compliant-commodity-intel) — oil, gold, uranium headlines from permitted sources - [Crypto News](https://apify.com/topsail/compliant-crypto-news) — BTC/ETH/DeFi headlines from major outlets - [AI Research Radar](https://apify.com/topsail/compliant-ai-research-radar) — new papers and lab announcements # Actor input Schema ## `newsSources` (type: `array`): News feeds to track. Each item: {"url": "https://...", "category": "aggregated|coverage|official", "kind": "rss|html", "keep\_all": true|false}. Feeds marked keep\_all (already GTA-scoped, like the Bing News query feed) are kept in full; all others are filtered to GTA/Rockstar items. Defaults to a curated, robots-clean set. ## `includeMarketOdds` (type: `boolean`): Pull prediction-market implied odds on the release date holding (public Kalshi data, Polymarket fallback). Best-effort; omitted if unavailable. ## `includeHype` (type: `boolean`): Public aggregate hype metrics: Wikipedia pageviews, optional YouTube official-trailer stats, Google Trends, market odds. No PII and no post or forum scraping; Reddit is intentionally excluded (blocks automated access; ToS bars resale). ## `youtubeApiKey` (type: `string`): Free YouTube Data API v3 key. If set, the hype index adds official Rockstar trailer view and like counts. Leave blank to skip that one metric. ## `youtubeTrailerIds` (type: `array`): Official Rockstar trailer video IDs to pull stats for (requires the API key above). Defaults to the known trailer set. ## `wikipediaArticle` (type: `string`): Wikipedia article title backing the pageviews hype metric. ## `maxItemsPerSource` (type: `integer`): Cap on news items pulled from each source per run. Billing is per delivered result, so this also caps cost. ## `releaseDateOverride` (type: `string`): Optional ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD) that forces the countdown target, for testing the diff and countdown logic. Leave blank to use tracked facts. ## Actor input object example ```json { "newsSources": [ { "url": "https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=%22GTA+6%22&format=rss", "category": "aggregated", "kind": "rss", "keep_all": true }, { "url": "https://www.gamespot.com/feeds/news/", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" }, { "url": "https://www.eurogamer.net/feed", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" }, { "url": "https://www.pcgamer.com/rss/", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" }, { "url": "https://www.polygon.com/rss/index.xml", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" } ], "includeMarketOdds": true, "includeHype": true, "youtubeTrailerIds": [ "QdBZY2csoPo" ], "wikipediaArticle": "Grand_Theft_Auto_VI", "maxItemsPerSource": 25 } ``` # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "newsSources": [ { "url": "https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=%22GTA+6%22&format=rss", "category": "aggregated", "kind": "rss", "keep_all": true }, { "url": "https://www.gamespot.com/feeds/news/", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" }, { "url": "https://www.eurogamer.net/feed", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" }, { "url": "https://www.pcgamer.com/rss/", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" }, { "url": "https://www.polygon.com/rss/index.xml", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" } ], "includeMarketOdds": true, "includeHype": true, "youtubeTrailerIds": [ "QdBZY2csoPo" ], "maxItemsPerSource": 25 }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("topsail/gta6-tracker").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "newsSources": [ { "url": "https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=%22GTA+6%22&format=rss", "category": "aggregated", "kind": "rss", "keep_all": True, }, { "url": "https://www.gamespot.com/feeds/news/", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss", }, { "url": "https://www.eurogamer.net/feed", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss", }, { "url": "https://www.pcgamer.com/rss/", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss", }, { "url": "https://www.polygon.com/rss/index.xml", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss", }, ], "includeMarketOdds": True, "includeHype": True, "youtubeTrailerIds": ["QdBZY2csoPo"], "maxItemsPerSource": 25, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("topsail/gta6-tracker").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "newsSources": [ { "url": "https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=%22GTA+6%22&format=rss", "category": "aggregated", "kind": "rss", "keep_all": true }, { "url": "https://www.gamespot.com/feeds/news/", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" }, { "url": "https://www.eurogamer.net/feed", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" }, { "url": "https://www.pcgamer.com/rss/", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" }, { "url": "https://www.polygon.com/rss/index.xml", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" } ], "includeMarketOdds": true, "includeHype": true, "youtubeTrailerIds": [ "QdBZY2csoPo" ], "maxItemsPerSource": 25 }' | apify call topsail/gta6-tracker --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=topsail/gta6-tracker", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "GTA 6 Countdown & Developments Tracker — diffed, no leaks", "description": "GTA 6 release date countdown, confirmed facts, diffed developments, news and market odds as clean JSON — unofficial, robots-compliant.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "3RgXfTGWeTPJXt70c" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/topsail~gta6-tracker/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-topsail-gta6-tracker", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/topsail~gta6-tracker/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-topsail-gta6-tracker", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/topsail~gta6-tracker/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-topsail-gta6-tracker", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "newsSources": { "title": "News sources", "type": "array", "description": "News feeds to track. Each item: {\"url\": \"https://...\", \"category\": \"aggregated|coverage|official\", \"kind\": \"rss|html\", \"keep_all\": true|false}. Feeds marked keep_all (already GTA-scoped, like the Bing News query feed) are kept in full; all others are filtered to GTA/Rockstar items. Defaults to a curated, robots-clean set." }, "includeMarketOdds": { "title": "Include release-date market odds", "type": "boolean", "description": "Pull prediction-market implied odds on the release date holding (public Kalshi data, Polymarket fallback). Best-effort; omitted if unavailable.", "default": true }, "includeHype": { "title": "Include community hype index", "type": "boolean", "description": "Public aggregate hype metrics: Wikipedia pageviews, optional YouTube official-trailer stats, Google Trends, market odds. No PII and no post or forum scraping; Reddit is intentionally excluded (blocks automated access; ToS bars resale).", "default": true }, "youtubeApiKey": { "title": "YouTube Data API key (optional)", "type": "string", "description": "Free YouTube Data API v3 key. If set, the hype index adds official Rockstar trailer view and like counts. Leave blank to skip that one metric." }, "youtubeTrailerIds": { "title": "YouTube trailer video IDs", "type": "array", "description": "Official Rockstar trailer video IDs to pull stats for (requires the API key above). Defaults to the known trailer set.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "wikipediaArticle": { "title": "Wikipedia article", "type": "string", "description": "Wikipedia article title backing the pageviews hype metric.", "default": "Grand_Theft_Auto_VI" }, "maxItemsPerSource": { "title": "Max news items per source", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 200, "type": "integer", "description": "Cap on news items pulled from each source per run. Billing is per delivered result, so this also caps cost.", "default": 25 }, "releaseDateOverride": { "title": "Release date override (testing)", "type": "string", "description": "Optional ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD) that forces the countdown target, for testing the diff and countdown logic. Leave blank to use tracked facts." } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```