Google AI Mode Scraper: Answers & Competitor Share of Voice

Google AI Mode Scraper: Answers, Citations and Competitor Share of Voice

See what Google AI Mode actually answers for the queries your buyers type, which sites it cites, and how often your domain shows up next to competitors. Paste prompts, add your domain and up to ten competitor domains, and get one dated snapshot per prompt plus a free share-of-voice summary.

This is not a claim about what Google always says. AI Mode answers vary between runs. Every row is stamped with snapshotAt and a short disclaimer.

Failed and empty answers are never charged.

Who it's for

• SEO and GEO teams: check buying queries in bulk instead of pasting them by hand.
• Agencies: a weekly snapshot of who AI Mode cites for a client, and which prompts name a rival instead.
• Store owners (POD, Etsy, Amazon): see whether AI Mode recommends you or a competitor on "best X for Y" queries.

For scheduled monitoring across ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Mode, AI Overviews and Perplexity, use the AI Visibility Tracker. This scraper is the search-named front door and shares the same AI Mode parser.

What you get

• One answer row per prompt: answerText (markdown), sources (position, title, URL, domain), brandCited, brandCitationPosition, brandMentioned, competitorsCited, competitorsNamed, snapshotAt
• One free share_of_voice row: percent of prompts where each domain is cited, average citation position, and promptsCompetitorNamedNotYou
• Optional free change_report when onlyNewSources is on: new and dropped domains versus last week's snapshot
• A status on every answer row: ok, no_answer, error, not_processed or invalid_input

Citation and mention checks are ordinary string matches in our own code (your domain, its subdomains, or a name as a whole word in the visible answer text). A citation link alone does not count as a mention. No paid AI model is used.

The four cheapest Google AI Mode scrapers we checked on 10 Nov 2026 (Apify's own Actor, scrape.badger, subimpact and litescrape) return the answer and its sources. Their input and output schemas do not include a brand domain, competitor list, share-of-voice rates or a "competitor named, not you" summary.

Input

Field	What it does
prompts	Questions or search queries for Google AI Mode (up to 500). Free Apify plans: 10
brandDomain	Your site, e.g. printful.com or Printful | printful.com. Optional
competitorDomains	Up to 10 competitor domains, same optional Name | domain.com form
country	Market for the answers (name or 2-letter code). Defaults to United States
language	Language code (e.g. en, de). Defaults to the country's main language
onlyNewSources	Weekly change report: flag sources that were not in the prior snapshot
previousDatasetId	Dataset id from a prior run of this Actor
previousSources	Or paste last week's source URLs or domains

{
  "prompts": [
    "best print on demand company for etsy",
    "printful vs printify",
    "best print on demand for t-shirts"
  ],
  "brandDomain": "printful.com",
  "competitorDomains": ["printify.com", "gooten.com"],
  "country": "United States"
}

Turn on a weekly change report by scheduling the Actor and passing last week's dataset id:

{
  "prompts": ["best print on demand company for etsy"],
  "brandDomain": "printful.com",
  "competitorDomains": ["printify.com"],
  "onlyNewSources": true,
  "previousDatasetId": "YOUR_LAST_DATASET_ID"
}

Output

An answer row (shape; source text will differ from run to run):

{
  "type": "answer", "status": "ok",
  "prompt": "best print on demand company for etsy",
  "brandDomain": "printful.com",
  "brandCited": true, "brandCitationPosition": 2, "brandMentioned": true,
  "competitorsCited": ["printify.com"], "competitorsNamed": ["printify.com"],
  "sources": [
    {"position": 1, "title": "...", "url": "https://www.example.com/...", "domain": "example.com"}
  ],
  "answerText": "...",
  "snapshotAt": "2026-11-10T15:00:00Z",
  "charged": true,
  "disclaimer": "Dated snapshot of a Google AI Mode answer... Answers vary between runs; this is not what Google says in general."
}

Share of voice (free):

{
  "type": "share_of_voice", "prompts": 3, "answers": 3,
  "brandDomain": "printful.com",
  "domains": [
    {"domain": "printful.com", "role": "brand", "citedPromptRate": 0.667, "avgCitationPosition": 2.0},
    {"domain": "printify.com", "role": "competitor", "citedPromptRate": 1.0, "avgCitationPosition": 1.0}
  ],
  "promptsCompetitorNamedNotYou": [
    {"prompt": "best print on demand for t-shirts", "competitorsCited": ["printify.com"], "brandCited": false}
  ],
  "snapshotAt": "2026-11-10T15:00:00Z", "charged": false
}

Ready dataset views: AI Mode answers, Share of voice and Weekly change report. Export to CSV, Excel or JSON.

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	When it is charged
Actor start	once per run
transcript (shown as "AI Mode answer")	one Google AI Mode answer delivered for one prompt

You are not charged for:

• prompts where AI Mode returned no answer;
• failed requests;
• skipped inputs (duplicates, invalid domains);
• share-of-voice and change-report rows;
• anything beyond your run's maximum charge. The run stops cleanly and lists what it did not process.

Apify free plan: 10 prompts per run. Any paid Apify plan unlocks up to 500 prompts and 10 competitors.

Use from AI agents (MCP)

AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor can run this Actor through Apify's MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com). The agent can look up the Actor, read its input schema, run it and read the results. Runs use your own Apify account and are charged at the prices on this page.

• Actor name: vncntlabs/google-ai-mode-scraper
• Server URL with only this tool: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=vncntlabs/google-ai-mode-scraper
• Claude (desktop app or claude.ai): Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector, paste the server URL, then sign in to Apify.
• ChatGPT: turn on Developer mode, then Settings > Apps & Connectors > Create, paste the server URL and choose OAuth.
• Cursor: run /add-plugin apify in Cursor chat, or add the server to mcp.json.

Example prompt: "Use the Apify Actor vncntlabs/google-ai-mode-scraper to check whether printful.com is cited in Google AI Mode for 'best print on demand company for etsy', compared with printify.com and gooten.com."

To cap the cost of an agent's run, it can pass maxTotalChargeUsd in the run options.

FAQ

How is share of voice calculated? For each domain you list, we count the share of prompts whose snapshot cites that domain, and the average position of the first citation. We also list prompts that name or cite a competitor but do not name or cite you. It is all string matching, on that run's snapshots only.

Why do results differ from what I see in my browser? Google AI Mode personalises and varies its answers. These are logged-out answers for the chosen country and language at snapshotAt. Use a weekly schedule for trends, not a single run as gospel.

What is the weekly change report? Turn on onlyNewSources and pass last week's dataset id (or a list of known URLs). The run still returns the full snapshot, flags new sources, and adds a free change-report row. For a scheduled check across several AI engines, use the AI Visibility Tracker.

Which countries? The usual Google markets, including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico and Japan. Pick a country by name or 2-letter code.

How long does a run take? Most short runs finish in under a minute. A stalled provider queue is retried on a faster priority after 60 seconds, without changing your price.

Is this affiliated with Google? No. Data comes from DataForSEO's licensed SERP API. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.

Made by VNCNT Labs.