AI Search Visibility Tracker

Snapshots brand citations and mentions across six AI search surfaces (Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini) on a recurring schedule. Every run appends to a named Apify Dataset, writes the raw item to a named Apify Key-Value Store, and produces a Markdown report comparing today's snapshot to every prior run. Recurrence is driven by the operating system's own scheduler -- launchd on macOS, cron on Linux, Task Scheduler on Windows. See reference/scheduling.md.

Prerequisites

(No need to check upfront)

• APIFY_TOKEN saved in a .env file next to config.json (the runner auto-loads it).
• Python 3.9+ on PATH. pip3 install requests (only third-party dependency); pip3 install tldextract recommended for accurate registrable-domain matching on multi-part TLDs.
• For automated daily runs: macOS / Linux with launchd or cron available (the installer handles both). Windows users get printed schtasks instructions.

Workflow

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