Competitor Monitoring
Track what competitors post and how fast they grow — without opening their profiles.
No platform will tell you when a competitor posts. There is no feed to subscribe to and no alert to switch on, so the work falls to whoever remembers to check, and memory is not a dataset. Reading each account on a schedule fixes that: the same profile and recent-posts calls run every morning across all five platforms, the results land in your own store, and the difference between two runs is the answer.
Build it into a product.
Read each competitor account on a schedule and store the result, so growth and posting cadence become a series rather than a screenshot.
Supported responses use a consistent ActivityStreams 2.0-based model. Shared concepts map to consistent fields, while platform-specific capabilities remain documented. Standard calls use one credit; batch endpoints charge one credit per submitted ID. Failed and timed-out requests are automatically refunded.
- Get user profileTikTokGET /v1/tiktok/users/{username}
- Get user videosTikTokGET /v1/tiktok/users/{username}/videos
- Get user profileInstagramGET /v1/instagram/users/{username}
- Get user postsInstagramGET /v1/instagram/users/{username}/posts
- Get user profileRedditGET /v1/reddit/users/{username}
- Get user postsRedditGET /v1/reddit/users/{username}/posts
- Get user profileXGET /v1/x/users/{username}
- Get user postsXGET /v1/x/users/{username}/posts
- Get user profileLinkedInGET /v1/linkedin/users/{username}
- Get user postsLinkedInGET /v1/linkedin/users/{username}/posts
Or run it in a tool you already use.
The same endpoints are available as MCP tools. Connect a supported client once and the work becomes a question you ask or a step in a scheduled workflow — with no integration to build.
Chat — spot-check any competitor on demand
Use ChatGPT or Claude to pull a competitor's latest data whenever you need it — before a meeting, before a pitch, before a strategy session.
Example prompts
- Get the Instagram profile for @[competitor] — follower count, post count, and how recently they’ve posted.
- What has @[competitor] posted on TikTok this week? Get their most recent 5 videos and summarize.
- Compare @[brand1] and @[brand2] on Instagram — follower counts, posting frequency, and recent content themes.
- Has @[competitor] changed their posting cadence on TikTok recently? Check their last 15 videos.
Automation — weekly competitive digest, delivered
Run a weekly workflow that pulls data across your entire competitive set and delivers a summary to your team. No manual effort, no missed updates.
Example workflow
A Monday morning n8n workflow that fetches follower counts and recent post counts for 5 competitor brands on both TikTok and Instagram, then posts a formatted summary to Slack.
What this covers.
Public data only. Supported endpoints return what the platform serves publicly, and reaching it never depends on a connected account — so private analytics for accounts you own are outside what this can answer.
- Track follower growth across a defined competitive set, week over week
- Catch a new content push or product announcement the day it goes up
- Benchmark your own posting cadence against the accounts you compete with
- Build competitive reports from stored data rather than screenshots
Related jobs
Try it with your own accounts.
Get a free API key and make the first call. 100 credits, every platform, both interfaces, no credit card.