🎮 Games & Esports Intelligence Database API

Query pre-analyzed, historical, and market-moving gaming intelligence — backed by a daily AI-scraping pipeline and live gaming equities tracker.

This Actor doesn't force you to wait for live web scraping! We execute the heavy AI analysis natively on our backend every morning (~100 articles/day) utilizing LLMs and un-blockable scrapers. You are querying deeply enriched, pre-verified gaming and esports intelligence from a Supabase Postgres database.

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🚀 Why Use This Database?

📰 News Intelligence (SEARCH_ARTICLES)

Instant access to AI-enriched gaming news that a standard RSS feed cannot provide:

• 🏷️ Entity Extraction: Automatically identifies games, hardware, companies, players, and esports teams (e.g., "Nintendo", "Faker", "Team Liquid").
• 📋 Rich Metadata: Extrapolates genres, publishers, platforms, player_modes, events, players, and teams.
• 💯 Significance Score (0-100): Instantly filter noise. Know if an event is a "Minor Patch Note" (15/100) or an "Industry-Breaking Announcement" (95/100).
• 📈 Sentiment Analysis: Immediate Positive / Negative / Neutral classification per article.

📈 Gaming Equities (QUERY_METRICS)

Daily stock metrics for the top 5 gaming publishers, powered by Yahoo Finance:

• Nintendo (NTDOY), Sony (SONY), Electronic Arts (EA), Take-Two (TTWO), Tencent (TCEHY)
• Fields: price_open, price_current, day_change_percent, volume

📊 Industry Report (INDUSTRY_REPORT)

A one-shot intelligence summary combining:

• Industry Sentiment — rolling hype index and sentiment score
• Top Stories — the latest high-significance articles
• Equities Performance — current publisher stock data

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🛠️ Usage & Configuration

Because we handle the infrastructure, API keys, proxies, and LLM processing on our end, your setup is extremely straightforward.

Operation Modes

Mode	Description	Billing
SEARCH_ARTICLES	Query AI-analyzed news articles by keyword, date, or entity.	article-summary event
QUERY_METRICS	Retrieve historical gaming publisher stock data.	indices-fetched event
INDUSTRY_REPORT	Generate a consolidated gaming industry summary.	report-generated event
DAILY_UPDATE	⚙️ Admin: Scrape equities + news, push to DB.	—
MAINTENANCE	⚙️ Admin: Recalculate hype & sentiment signals.	—
BACKFILL_METRICS	⚙️ Admin: Import historic equities data.	—

Configure Inputs

Field	Description
Operation Mode	Select a mode from the table above.
News Category	Choose a feed category (All, Esports & Gaming Industry, Console & PC, etc.)
Search Term	(Optional) Query the database for a keyword or entity (e.g., "Nintendo", "Esports").
Start Date	(Optional) Filter results on or after a specified date (YYYY-MM-DD).
Max Articles	Limit the number of events returned.

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📊 Data Output

Results are saved to your Apify Dataset with a rich Table View in the console.

News Article Output (SEARCH_ARTICLES)

{
  "title": "Nintendo Announces Next-Gen Console Specifications",
  "url": "https://ign.com/articles/nintendo-switch-2-specs",
  "published": "2025-11-30T14:30:00Z",
  "content_type": "Industry/Business",
  "significance_score": 95,
  "sentiment": "Positive",
  "affected_entities": ["Nintendo", "Switch 2", "Zelda"],
  "genres": ["Action-Adventure"],
  "publishers": ["Nintendo"],
  "platforms": ["Switch"],
  "player_modes": ["Single-player"],
  "events": ["Nintendo Direct"],
  "players": [],
  "teams": [],
  "summary": "Nintendo has officially announced the release timeline for the Switch successor..."
}

Equities Output (QUERY_METRICS)

{
  "date": "2025-11-30",
  "ticker_symbol": "NTDOY",
  "company_name": "Nintendo",
  "price_open": 72.50,
  "price_current": 74.15,
  "day_change_percent": 2.28,
  "volume": "1523400"
}

Industry Report Output (INDUSTRY_REPORT)

{
  "industry_sentiment": {
    "date": "2025-11-30",
    "sentiment_score": 0.65,
    "industry_hype_index": 78.5,
    "high_impact_news_flag": "True"
  },
  "top_stories": [ "..." ],
  "equities_performance": [ "..." ]
}

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💰 Pricing & Monetization

This Actor uses a clear Pay-Per-Event model for complete predictability. You only pay when valuable data hits your dataset.

Event	Cost	Description
article-summary	$0.01 per article	Charged per AI-analyzed article returned via SEARCH_ARTICLES
indices-fetched	$0.01 per record	Charged per equity data point returned via QUERY_METRICS
report-generated	$0.05 per report	Charged per consolidated report via INDUSTRY_REPORT

You do NOT burn money on HTTP 403s, proxy failures, or LLM hallucinations — we've already handled the risk in our daily background schedules. You are strictly paying for the clean data payload.

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🏢 Platform Architecture

For advanced developers wishing to understand the infrastructure maintaining this database, refer to the AGENTS.md source of truth document for our automated deployment pipeline detailing LangGraph, Supabase integrations, Yahoo Finance equities tracking, and Brave Search Fallback mechanics.