# Brand Mention & OSINT Monitor (`second_coming/brand-mention-monitor`) Actor

Monitor brand mentions across Reddit, Hacker News, Pastebin, GitHub, and web forums. Detect data leaks, security incidents, and track brand sentiment with urgency flags.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/second\_coming/brand-mention-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Richard P](https://apify.com/second_coming) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.02 / brand scan run

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Brand Mention & OSINT Monitor

**Monitor your brand across Reddit, Hacker News, Pastebin, GitHub, and the web.** Detect data leaks, security incidents, and track brand sentiment in real time.

### What it does

Scans multiple public sources for mentions of your brand, product, or keywords. Each mention is enriched with:

- **Sentiment analysis** — positive, negative, or neutral (keyword-based)
- **Urgency flagging** — automatically marks mentions containing leak/breach/vulnerability keywords
- **Source attribution** — knows where it came from and who posted it

Found something urgent? It can push a webhook alert so your security or PR team can respond immediately.

### Sources

| Source | What it searches |
|--------|-----------------|
| **Reddit** | Posts and comments across all subreddits |
| **Hacker News** | Stories and discussions |
| **Pastebin** | Recent public pastes for keyword matches |
| **GitHub** | Code files + issues mentioning your brand |
| **Web** | General web search via DuckDuckGo |

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `keywords` | array | **Required.** Brand names or terms to monitor |
| `sources` | array | Platforms to scan (default: all) |
| `maxResults` | integer | Max results per source per keyword (default: 20) |
| `urgencyKeywords` | array | Custom urgency trigger words (e.g., "data breach") |
| `webhookUrl` | string | URL for urgent mention alerts |

#### Example Input

```json
{
  "keywords": ["YourBrand", "YourProduct"],
  "sources": ["reddit", "hackernews", "pastebin", "github", "web"],
  "maxResults": 20,
  "urgencyKeywords": ["leak", "breach", "exploit"],
  "webhookUrl": "https://hooks.example.com/osint-alerts"
}
```

### Output

Each mention includes: `source`, `keyword`, `title`, `snippet`, `url`, `sentiment`, `is_urgent`, plus source-specific fields like `author`, `score`, `repo`.

#### Webhook Payload

When urgent mentions are found, a POST is sent to your webhook URL:

```json
{
  "event": "urgent_mentions_detected",
  "keywords": ["YourBrand"],
  "total_mentions": 42,
  "urgent_count": 3,
  "mentions": [
    {
      "source": "pastebin",
      "keyword": "YourBrand",
      "title": "Untitled",
      "url": "https://pastebin.com/abc123",
      "sentiment": "negative"
    }
  ]
}
```

### Use Cases

- **Security teams** — get alerted when credentials or internal data appear on paste sites
- **PR / Comms** — track brand sentiment shifts across social and news
- **Competitive intelligence** — monitor competitor mentions and community sentiment
- **Product teams** — find bug reports, feature requests, and user feedback
- **Legal / Compliance** — detect trademark misuse or brand impersonation

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

List of brand names, products, or keywords to search for across the web, social media, and paste sites.

## `sources` (type: `array`):

Which platforms to scan for mentions.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of results to collect per source per keyword.

## `urgencyKeywords` (type: `array`):

Keywords that flag a mention as urgent (e.g., leak, breach, exploit, password, dump, compromised). Customise for your brand's risk profile.

## `webhookUrl` (type: `string`):

URL to POST urgent mentions to for real-time alerting.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "your-brand-name",
    "your-product-name"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "reddit",
    "hackernews",
    "pastebin",
    "github",
    "web"
  ],
  "maxResults": 20,
  "urgencyKeywords": [
    "leak",
    "breach",
    "exploit",
    "password",
    "dump",
    "compromised",
    "vulnerability",
    "ransomware",
    "data breach"
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keywords": [
        "your-brand-name",
        "your-product-name"
    ],
    "sources": [
        "reddit",
        "hackernews",
        "pastebin",
        "github",
        "web"
    ],
    "urgencyKeywords": [
        "leak",
        "breach",
        "exploit",
        "password",
        "dump",
        "compromised",
        "vulnerability",
        "ransomware",
        "data breach"
    ],
    "webhookUrl": ""
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("second_coming/brand-mention-monitor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "keywords": [
        "your-brand-name",
        "your-product-name",
    ],
    "sources": [
        "reddit",
        "hackernews",
        "pastebin",
        "github",
        "web",
    ],
    "urgencyKeywords": [
        "leak",
        "breach",
        "exploit",
        "password",
        "dump",
        "compromised",
        "vulnerability",
        "ransomware",
        "data breach",
    ],
    "webhookUrl": "",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("second_coming/brand-mention-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keywords": [
    "your-brand-name",
    "your-product-name"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "reddit",
    "hackernews",
    "pastebin",
    "github",
    "web"
  ],
  "urgencyKeywords": [
    "leak",
    "breach",
    "exploit",
    "password",
    "dump",
    "compromised",
    "vulnerability",
    "ransomware",
    "data breach"
  ],
  "webhookUrl": ""
}' |
apify call second_coming/brand-mention-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=second_coming/brand-mention-monitor",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/2lelcdgsL0aigBWvg/builds/o5XoCEoCmU2xiPgj2/openapi.json