NotebookLM for competitive intelligence research.
SurfSense is an open-source competitive intelligence platform, like NotebookLM but with live scraping connectors. Your AI agents monitor competitors, track rankings, and listen to your market with live data from platforms like Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Google Maps, Google Search, and the open web.
Launch Impact, Across Every Platform
One prompt chains Google Search, Reddit, and YouTube into a single cited brief on how a competitor launch actually landed.
Who SurfSense is for
Competitor and market intelligence without the enterprise price tag
Ask for a competitor teardown, a lead list, or a weekly market brief in plain English. The agent gathers live data, cites its sources, and automations keep watch so you hear about changes first. Start free, pay only for what you use.
The whole platform is programmable
Everything SurfSense agents can do is a typed REST API: scrape Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Google Maps, Google Search, and the open web, search the knowledge base, run automations. One key, JSON in and out, $5 free credit, pay as you go. Already running agents in Claude, Cursor, or your own harness? The SurfSense MCP server hands them the same tools natively.
Connectors for every platform your market uses
7 connectors and growingEach connector is a platform-native REST API. Call it from your own app with your SurfSense API key, or hand it to your agents through the SurfSense MCP server. Live data in, structured intelligence out.
Reddit API
The SurfSense Reddit API extracts posts, comments, subreddits, and user data without the official Reddit API's rate limits or per-call pricing. Give your AI agents a live feed of what your market says about your brand, your competitors, and your category, so you hear it first.
ExploreYouTube API
The SurfSense YouTube API pulls videos, channel stats, comments, and transcripts at scale, without YouTube Data API quotas. Feed your AI agents every comment and transcript that matters to your market, so you know what people actually think about your product and your competitors' content.
ExploreInstagram API
The SurfSense Instagram scraper extracts public profiles, posts, and reels without logging in or registering for the Instagram Graph API. Give your AI agents a live feed of what creators post, so you spot trends and shifts in engagement first.
ExploreTikTok API
The SurfSense TikTok scraper extracts public videos by hashtag, creator profile, or URL, plus comment threads and trending feeds, without TikTok's approval-gated Research API. Give your AI agents a live feed of what your market watches and shares, so you catch a trend while it is still rising.
ExploreGoogle Maps API
The SurfSense Google Maps API turns Maps into a B2B lead engine. Extract business names, categories, phones, websites, ratings, and reviews at scale, then point your AI agents at any territory or category to build lead lists and map a local market in minutes.
ExploreSERP API
The SurfSense SERP API scrapes Google Search results as structured JSON: organic rankings, paid ads, AI Overviews, and People Also Ask. Point your AI agents at the queries that matter to your market and know the moment a rank moves, an ad appears, or an AI answer starts citing a competitor.
ExploreWeb Crawl API
The SurfSense Web Crawl API points your AI agents at any URL and returns clean, LLM-ready markdown, structured links, and harvested contacts. Scrape a single page or spider a whole site, with the same agent harness that powers our platform connectors.
ExploreHow SurfSense works
Connect
Grab one API key and call any connector straight from your own code, or add the SurfSense MCP server to Claude, Cursor, or your own agents. Every connector is a REST endpoint and a native agent tool.
Agents gather
Your agents pull live data through the agent harness: platform connectors, retries, structured output, and credit metering handled for you.
You act
Get briefs and alerts instead of raw exports. A rank moves, a price changes, a thread turns on you, and you hear about it first.
What teams use SurfSense for
Competitor price monitoring
Crawl competitor pricing and product pages on a schedule and get an alert the day something changes, not the quarter after.
Web Crawl APIBrand monitoring
Track every mention of your brand, your competitors, and your category across the communities where buyers speak candidly.
Reddit APISocial sentiment mining
Pull public posts, reels, and full comment threads from any creator or competitor, then score how audiences actually react to launches and campaigns.
Instagram APIB2B lead generation
Turn a category and a territory into a clean lead list with phones, websites, and ratings, ready for your CRM.
Google Maps APIMarket research
Watch the rankings, ads, and AI answers your market actually sees, and mine audience sentiment at scale.
SERP APIHow SurfSense compares
CI suites sell dashboards to analysts. Scraper APIs sell raw data to engineers. SurfSense gives AI agents the data and the harness in one open-source platform.
| Feature | CI suitesCrayon, Klue | Scraper APIsBright Data, Apify | SurfSense |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | Analysts read human dashboards | You build everything on raw data | Your AI agents gather, analyze, and alert |
| Intelligence layer | Curated but slow, human-in-the-loop | None; data only | Agent harness turns live data into briefs |
| Pricing | Enterprise contracts, annual quotes | Usage-priced infrastructure | Self-serve, pay per item, free tier |
| Developer surface | No agent surface | APIs, but no MCP or harness | REST API with your API key, plus an MCP server for agents |
| Open source | No | No | Yes, self-hostable |
Frequently asked questions
Open source, built in public
No CI incumbent can show you its code. SurfSense can. Star the repository, join the community, or self-host the whole platform. Start free, no credit card required.
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