Competitive Intelligence

Real-time competitive intelligence powered by live web data via Apify actors. Never answer competitive questions from training knowledge alone. Always gather live data first, then analyze.

Prerequisites

• Apify CLI v1.5.0+ (npm install -g apify-cli), or Apify MCP server
• Authenticated session (apify login or APIFY_TOKEN env var)

CLI rules: Always pass --json, --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/apify-easy-competitive-intelligence, and 2>/dev/null.

• Run actor: apify actors call "ACTOR_ID" -i 'INPUT' --json 2>/dev/null → returns run metadata with defaultDatasetId
• Fetch results: apify datasets get-items DATASET_ID --format json > /tmp/results.json 2>/dev/null — save locally, parse from file:
  • Quick extraction: jq '.[] | "\(.field1) | \(.field2)"' /tmp/results.json
  • Aggregation: python3 -c "import json; d=json.load(open('/tmp/results.json')); ..."
  • Tabular: --format csv > /tmp/results.csv + python3 with csv.DictReader
  • Flags: --limit N, --offset N, --format json|jsonl|csv|xlsx|xml
  • Output fields: apify datasets info DATASET_ID --json | jq .fields
• Fetch schema: apify actors info "ACTOR_ID" --input --json 2>/dev/null