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  "name": "Monitor competitor mentions in Google News with Apify and Slack",
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        "content": "## Competitor news monitor\n\n**What it does**\nSearches Google News for a topic and posts each new article to Slack or Discord.\n\n**Setup (2 minutes)**\n1. Create a Header Auth credential named `Apify` (name `Authorization`, value `Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN`) from Apify Console -> Settings -> Integrations.\n2. Open **Configure search** and set `query` and `max_items` - that is the only place you need to edit.\n3. Paste your Slack or Discord webhook URL into **Send the alert**.\n\n**How it behaves**\n- Runs on a schedule; every run asks the Actor for the current rows.\n- Rows already sent are skipped, so you are alerted once per record rather than\n  once per run. The seen-list lives in the workflow's static data and is trimmed\n  to the newest 1,000 keys.\n- A row with no article_url or title is dropped rather than written, because a\n  record with no identifier cannot be deduplicated later.\n- If the run fails or returns nothing, the failure branch posts an alert instead\n  of ending silently.\n\n**Actor used:** https://apify.com/captainhandsome/captainhandsome/google-news-search\n",
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        "width": 1000
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            }
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        "mode": "manual",
        "includeOtherFields": false,
        "assignments": {
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            {
              "id": "cfg-1",
              "name": "query",
              "value": "OpenAI OR Anthropic",
              "type": "string"
            },
            {
              "id": "cfg-2",
              "name": "max_items",
              "value": 10,
              "type": "number"
            }
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        "method": "POST",
        "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/captainhandsome~google-news-search/run-sync-get-dataset-items?clean=true&format=json&timeout=300&maxItems=10",
        "authentication": "genericCredentialType",
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        "sendBody": true,
        "contentType": "raw",
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        "body": "={\n  \"query\": \"={{ $json.query }}\",\n  \"language\": \"en\",\n  \"country\": \"US\",\n  \"max_items\": \"={{ $json.max_items }}\"\n}",
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      "typeVersion": 4.1,
      "position": [
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        520
      ],
      "retryOnFail": true,
      "maxTries": 2,
      "waitBetweenTries": 5000,
      "onError": "continueErrorOutput",
      "notes": "Retries twice, then routes to the failure branch."
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    {
      "parameters": {
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          "options": {
            "caseSensitive": true,
            "leftValue": "",
            "typeValidation": "loose",
            "version": 2
          },
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            {
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              "leftValue": "={{ $input.all().length }}",
              "rightValue": 0,
              "operator": {
                "type": "number",
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      "name": "Any records returned?",
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      "position": [
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        "jsCode": "const store = $getWorkflowStaticData('global');\nstore.seen = store.seen || {};\nconst output = [];\nfor (const item of $input.all()) {\n  const rows = Array.isArray(item.json) ? item.json : [item.json];\n  for (const row of rows) {\n    const key = row.article_url || row.title;\n    if (key && !store.seen[key]) {\n      store.seen[key] = Date.now();\n      output.push({ json: row });\n    }\n  }\n}\nconst newest = Object.entries(store.seen).sort((a, b) => b[1] - a[1]).slice(0, 1000);\nstore.seen = Object.fromEntries(newest);\nreturn output;"
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      ],
      "notes": "Deduplicates against previous executions using workflow static data."
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        "conditions": {
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            "caseSensitive": true,
            "leftValue": "",
            "typeValidation": "loose",
            "version": 2
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              "id": "id-present",
              "leftValue": "={{ $json.article_url }}",
              "rightValue": "",
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                "operation": "notEmpty"
              }
            }
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          "combinator": "and"
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      "name": "Drop rows with no identifier",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.filter",
      "typeVersion": 2.2,
      "position": [
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        400
      ],
      "notes": "A record without an identifier cannot be deduplicated on the next run."
    },
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        "method": "POST",
        "url": "YOUR_SLACK_OR_DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL",
        "sendBody": true,
        "contentType": "raw",
        "rawContentType": "application/json",
        "body": "={{ JSON.stringify({ text: '*New competitor news*\\n*Title:* ' + $json.title + '\\n*Source:* ' + $json.source_name + '\\n*Published:* ' + $json.published_at + '\\n*Link:* ' + $json.article_url }) }}",
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      "name": "Send the alert",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "typeVersion": 4.1,
      "position": [
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      ],
      "notes": "Paste your Slack or Discord webhook URL here."
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        "method": "POST",
        "url": "YOUR_SLACK_OR_DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL",
        "sendBody": true,
        "contentType": "raw",
        "rawContentType": "application/json",
        "body": "={{ JSON.stringify({ text: ':warning: Apify run failed or returned no records for ' + 'Monitor competitor mentions in Google News with Apify and Slack' }) }",
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      "onError": "continueRegularOutput",
      "notes": "Runs when the Actor call errors or returns nothing."
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            "node": "Alert on failure",
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          }
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            "node": "Alert on failure",
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            "index": 0
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