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Competitor Monitor

Monitor competitors on Google Maps, track ranking changes, and detect Google Ads. By John Rippy.

Competitor Monitor

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Summary

Monitors the supplied businesses through the Apify Competitor Monitor actor, with options to track Google Maps rankings, detect Google Ads, and include social profiles. For each incoming item, starts an actor run and returns its status and, when successful, the dataset of competitor results.

Inputs

  • Competitors — A list of competitors, each with a business name and city/state location.
  • Track Rankings — Whether to track Google Maps rankings; defaults to true.
  • Detect Google Ads — Whether to detect competitors running Google Ads; defaults to true.
  • Include Social Profiles — Whether to find and monitor social media profiles; defaults to false.
  • Timeout (seconds) — How long the actor run may wait for results; defaults to 300 seconds.
  • Apify API credentials (required) — Apify API token used to start the actor and retrieve its dataset.

Output shape

A list of one result item per incoming item.

On success, each item contains runId, status, and competitors with the dataset response. If the actor finishes without SUCCEEDED status, the item contains runId, status, and a message. API or execution errors are raised as node errors.

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