Know what your competitors
are doing — automatically
ApifyForge helps product and strategy teams monitor competitors by combining product scrapers, review analyzers, and website change detectors. Best for tracking 10-100 competitors across pricing, reviews, and content. Less suitable when you need real-time social listening or earned media tracking. Costs $0.05 per competitor per check.
The problem
Competitive intelligence is typically done manually — checking competitor websites, taking screenshots, copying data into spreadsheets. It is time-consuming, inconsistent, and impossible to do at scale across dozens of competitors.
The solution
Apify actors turn competitor monitoring into an automated pipeline. Scrape product listings for pricing changes, monitor review scores and counts, track social media follower growth, and detect website content changes. Schedule runs daily or weekly and get structured data ready for analysis.
How it works
Map your competitors
List competitor websites, product pages, social profiles, and review pages you want to track. Group them by data type: pricing, reviews, content, social.
Select actors per data source
Use different actors for different sources — a product scraper for pricing, a review scraper for ratings, a social scraper for follower counts. The Recommender helps match needs to actors.
Schedule and automate
Set up recurring runs to build historical data. Daily pricing checks, weekly review monitoring, monthly content audits. Use n8n or Make.com templates for the scheduling.
Analyse and act
Compare your metrics against competitors over time. Spot trends, react to pricing changes, and identify gaps in competitor offerings that you can exploit.
Actors we recommend
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Extract products, prices, themes, and 40+ installed apps from any Shopify store. Get catalog size, avg price, sale counts, vendors, tags, and stock status. No API key needed.
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Cross-platform review monitoring, crisis detection, and decision-ready reputation risk scoring across Trustpilot, Google, BBB. Routable verdict, 30-day forecast, risk score, intervention playbook, cross-run memory layer. Deterministic. No LLM. Audit-ready.
Website Lead Intelligence — Find the Right Person, Verified
Turn company websites into ready-to-email decision-makers. Verified emails, named contacts ranked by seniority, buying-committee classification, A/B/C decision tiers, and optional scheduled monitoring + CRM auto-push to HubSpot/Salesforce. $0.15/site.
What does it cost?
Monitoring 20 competitors across pricing, reviews, and social costs approximately $5-15/month in PPE charges. Significantly cheaper than dedicated competitive intelligence platforms.
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