Real-time insights into customer sentiment and pain points regarding competitors, extracted from Reddit discussions.
The agent sets up the Apify Reddit Scraper to monitor specific competitor brand names or product keywords. It configures the actor to search for these terms and uses AI labeling to identify posts containing pain points or negative sentiment. The agent extracts the relevant post content and comments to provide a summary of what users dislike about the competitor's offerings.
- Category: Research and knowledge
- Effect: Read-only
- MCP servers: Apify MCP (https://koskamo.com/explore/apify-mcp)
- Source: Reddit Scraper: Posts, Comments & Subreddits (No API Key) · Apify (https://apify.com/harshmaur/reddit-scraper)
- Source quote: "Hear what people hate about your competitors. Search their names and tick hasPain , painPoint and competitor ."
- Playbook page: https://koskamo.com/explore/use-cases/monitor-competitor-brand-mentions
Prompt: Use the Apify MCP server to run the 'harshmaur/reddit-scraper' actor. Configure the input with 'searchTerms' set to the names of our competitors. Set 'searchPosts' to true and 'searchSort' to 'new'. Define custom labels to identify 'hasPain', 'painPoint', and 'competitor' mentions. Retrieve the structured data and summarize the key pain points users are expressing about these competitors.