🥗 Health & Fitness Intelligence Pipeline

Turn raw health news into actionable wellness intelligence.

This Actor is a high-performance intelligence agent that monitors the web's top Health, Fitness, and Nutrition sources. It doesn't just "scrape" news—it reads, analyzes, and structures it into specific data points like Key Ingredients, Target Body Parts, and Scientific Impact Scores using state-of-the-art AI.

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🚀 Why Use This Actor?

Most scrapers just give you a title and a link. We give you structured intelligence.

🧠 1. AI-Powered Analysis

Every article is processed by a Large Language Model to extract niche-specific data:

• 🧪 Key Ingredients: Automatically extracts supplements, foods, or compounds (e.g., "Creatine", "Ashwagandha", "Kale").
• 👟 Product/Gear Extraction: Identifies specific items mentioned (e.g., "Oura Ring 4", "Nike Pegasus", "NordicTrack").
• 💪 Target Body Parts: Identifies specific focus areas (e.g., "Glutes", "Rotator Cuff", "Gut Microbiome").
• 💯 Impact Score (0-100): Instantly filter noise. Know if a story is "General Fluff" (10/100) or a "Major Medical Study" (90/100).

🛡️ 2. "Unblockable" Architecture

We use a robust "Scrape-First, Search-Fallback" engine:

1. Attempt 1: High-speed direct scraping of the article HTML.
2. Attempt 2: If blocked (403/429), the Actor automatically queries Brave Search API to reconstruct the context from rich snippets. You always get data, never a blank page.

📢 3. Real-Time Community Alerts

Connect a Discord Webhook to automatically post beautiful, color-coded alerts for high-impact health news or new scientific studies directly to your community server.

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🛠️ Setup & Configuration (Critical)

Configure Inputs**

Field	Description
News Source	Choose from pre-curated high-quality feeds (Men's Health, Precision Nutrition, NASM, etc.) or provide a custom RSS URL.
Max Articles	Limit the number of items to process (Recommended: 10-50 per run).
Search Region	Bias the fallback search engine to a specific country (e.g., USA US, UK GB).
Discord Webhook	(Optional) Paste a Discord Webhook URL to receive instant alerts for high-score news.

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📊 Data Output

The Actor saves results to the Apify Dataset. We provide a rich Table View in the console for instant scanning.

JSON Example

{
  "title": "Black Friday Deals: Oura Ring 4 and NordicTrack",
  "url": "[https://example.com/fitness/black-friday-deals](https://example.com/fitness/black-friday-deals)",
  "published": "2025-11-29T20:01:00Z",
  "content_type": "Product/Gear",
  "impact_score": 70,
  "sentiment": "Positive",
  "key_ingredients": ["Creatine"],
  "mentioned_products": ["Oura Ring 4", "NordicTrack T10", "Brooks Ghost 16"],
  "target_body_parts": ["Full Body"],
  "summary": "A roundup of the best Black Friday fitness deals, highlighting discounts on the new Oura Ring 4 and NordicTrack treadmills.",
  "data_source_method": "Direct Scraper"
}

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💰 Pricing & Monetization

This Actor uses a Pay-Per-Event model.

• Event: news-data-fetch
• Cost: You are charged a small fee for every successfully analyzed article.
• Note: You are NOT charged for failed scrapes or duplicates.

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👨‍💻 For Developers

This Actor is built on a modular Python architecture using LangGraph for workflow orchestration.

• Reliability: Includes a runTestMode for zero-cost integration testing.
• Tech Stack: Python 3.11, Pydantic, OpenAI SDK (OpenRouter), BeautifulSoup4, Brave Search API.

Legal Disclaimer: This tool provides information for educational and research purposes only. It does not constitute medical advice. Always consult a professional before making health changes.