Apify Market Intelligence A powerful Apify Actor that scrapes the Apify Store to find Hot Niches and Trending Actors, then generates an interactive Market Intelligence Dashboard. ## 🎯 What It Does 1. Scrapes the Apify Store to collect actor data (runs, stars, publication date, categories) 2. Analyzes trends to identify top movers, competitive niches, and blue ocean opportunities 3. Generates a beautiful, self-contained HTML dashboard that you can view and share ## 🚀 Quick Start ### Install Dependencies bash npm install ### Build the Project bash # Build dashboard (creates single HTML file) npm run build:dashboard # Build crawler (compiles TypeScript) npm run build:crawler # Build everything npm run build ### Run Locally bash # Development mode (using tsx) npm run start:dev # Production mode (after build) npm start ### Preview Dashboard bash npm run dev:dashboard Then open http://localhost:5173 to see the dashboard with demo data. ## 📊 Dashboard Features - KPI Cards: Top Mover, Most Competitive Niche, Blue Ocean Opportunity - Bar Chart: Top 10 actors by total runs with growth indicators - Scatter Plot: Actor age vs. performance to spot viral launches - Data Table: Sortable, searchable list of all scraped actors ## 🏗️ Architecture Input → CheerioCrawler → Data Analysis → JSON → HTML Injection → Key-Value Store The "Zero Hosting" trick: 1. Actor runs the crawler 2. Saves data to a JSON object 3. Loads pre-built React dashboard template 4. Injects JSON data into <script id="report-data"> 5. Saves the final HTML to Apify Key-Value Store 6. Returns the public URL ## 📁 Project Structure ├── src/ │ ├── main.ts # Actor entry point & crawler │ ├── types.ts # TypeScript interfaces │ ├── analytics.ts # Data analysis functions │ ├── report-generator.ts # HTML injection & output │ └── dashboard/ # React dashboard │ ├── App.tsx │ └── components/ ├── .actor/ # Apify configuration ├── Dockerfile # Multi-stage build └── vite.config.ts # Single-file HTML build ## 🔧 Configuration The Actor accepts the following input: | Field | Type | Default | Description | |-------|------|---------|-------------| | maxActors | number | 100 | Maximum actors to scrape (0 = unlimited) | | includeCategories | string[] | [] | Filter by categories | | generateMockHistory | boolean | true | Generate demo growth data | ## 📄 License MIT