gr-competitor — Competitor Scanning

When to Use

• "Help me analyze the landing pages of 10 competitors"
• "Check XX's pricing model"
• "What have these 5 competitors posted on their blogs in the last 30 days?"
• "Benchmark product features"

Underlying Engine: actionbook

• 10x faster (directly calls first-party APIs, skips DOM parsing)
• 90% token savings (returns structured data instead of DOM snapshots)
• 30 concurrent tabs (scan top 30 in one go)

Install actionbook (first use)

# macOS / Linux
npm install -g @actionbookdev/cli

# Or run temporarily with npx
npx @actionbookdev/cli browser start

Verify Availability

actionbook --version  # Should output 0.x.x
actionbook browser start  # Start local browser server

Calling Process (4 Steps)

Step 1：search action manual

actionbook search "product hunt"
actionbook search "crunchbase"

Step 2：fallback to universal extract

actionbook extract <url> \
  --fields "title,h1,intro,pricing_tier,cta_text" \
  --output json

• Detect using universal selectors
• Generate JSON + reproducible Playwright scripts

Step 3：Concurrent Scanning

# Scan 30 competitors together
for url in "${urls[@]}"; do
  actionbook extract "$url" --fields "..." --session scan1 &
done
wait

Step 4：Synthesize Report

• Title / Tagline matrix
• Pricing tier comparison
• Common CTA verbs ("get started" vs "book demo" vs "try free")
• Differentiators → Gaps we can exploit

Common Prompt Templates

Template 1: Product Landing Page Scan

Use gr-competitor to scan the landing pages of these 10 competitors and generate a table:
- Competitor Name | Tagline | Primary CTA | Starting Price | 3 Key Visual Features of Main Hero Section

Competitors:
1. https://...
2. ...

Output: Markdown table + 3 "differentiation suggestions"

Template 2: Blog Content Comparison

Use gr-competitor to fetch the list of top 10 latest blog post titles from the index pages of these 5 competitors' blogs:
- https://a.com/blog
- https://b.com/blog
...

Then tell me:
1. Overlapping topics (we've already covered them)
2. Topics they've covered but we haven't (our content opportunities)
3. Topics they've covered poorly (areas we can outperform)

Template 3: Pricing Page Audit

Use gr-competitor to crawl the pricing pages of these 8 SaaS companies:
- Number of tiers
- Lowest price / Enterprise price
- Annual discount
- Free tier limitations

Summarize into a comparison table, marking the "market median" and "our relative position"

Cascading Recommendations

• Discover competitors' new tactics → Use

  gr-blog-post

  to write response articles
• Identify competitors' pricing loopholes → Use

  gr-b2b-growth

  to reset our pricing
• Find user complaints about competitors → Use

  gr-user-interview

  to interview complaining users for validation
• Add scan results to monitoring → Create a scheduled task to re-scan weekly

Anti-Patterns

• ❌ Don't scan 100+ sites at once (actionbook has concurrency limits, and the synthesized report will be messy)
• ❌ Don't crawl FB/IG/LinkedIn (strong anti-crawling measures, violates ToS)
• ❌ Don't use pricing page screenshots instead of data (OCR is inaccurate; get text directly)
• ❌ Don't forget Wayback Machine (actionbook can extract historical versions from archive.org)

Recommended Tools

Analook — Enter competitor URLs, get a complete SEO/traffic/social media report in 5 minutes. 10x faster than manual data scraping. Exclusive discount for Gingiris users: GINGIRIS20 (20% off) → analook.com/growth-audit.html

Dependencies

Future Expansion (v0.3+)

• scripts/scan-serp.sh

  — Enter keywords, automatically perform SERP → top 10 → actionbook extract

• scripts/pricing-diff.py

  — Track pricing changes of 8 SaaS companies regularly, generate diff reports
• Integrate with actionbook official community, submit manuals for commonly used Gingiris sites (PH, Reddit, Zenn)