# Competitor account monitoring: What did competitors post this week, and which post took off?

Competitor account monitoring runs on 17 platforms: the example run makes 2 calls and costs at most $0.0040.

Gets the latest page of posts of each account, with each post's engagement figures, as one table; every account is one call charged on its own. What is new since last time and which post is rising is for your own agent or spreadsheet to work out.

Tell your AI:

> Install the DataXAPI skill dataxapi-competitors from https://dataxapi.com/skills/dataxapi-competitors.zip.

[Download the package](https://dataxapi.com/skills/dataxapi-competitors.zip) · A .zip with one SKILL.md. It runs with the `dataxapi` command line.

- Example run: $0.0040 (at most. A failed call is never charged)
- Calls: 2 (with the example inputs)
- Hard ceiling: 10 calls, no run is opened above $0.3

## Ask it like this

- What did @trailbrew and @summitcup post on TikTok this week, and which post took off?
- Get the latest posts of these five competitor accounts as one table, sorted by views.
- Check my competitor list on Xiaohongshu and tell me what is new since Monday.

## What it does

Four steps. Only the second calls endpoints, so only the second costs money.

1. Show the plan first: Free, and needs no key: the most calls and the most money this run can come to.

```bash
dataxapi run competitors platform=tiktok accounts=nasa,natgeo --plan
```

2. Run it, capped at that amount: Each line is one endpoint of the example run, at its listed price.

|  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [TikTok user videos](https://dataxapi.com/apis/tiktok/users/videos/list/) `GET /v1/tiktok/users/videos/list` | 2 × $0.0020 | $0.0040 |

2 calls · at most $0.0040. A call that fails is not charged. The run stops rather than spend more than its cap.

```bash
dataxapi run competitors platform=tiktok accounts=nasa,natgeo --yes --max-spend 0.004 --out competitors.csv
```

3. Line everything up in one table: 13 columns, the same on every platform; a column a platform does not give is empty. No call, no cost.

4. Your AI reads the table and answers: What the table means is for your AI to say. It ends with where the data came from and when.

## What you get back

An illustration of the table, with the task's real columns. The names and figures in it are made up.

| Account | Text | Published at | Likes | Comments | Views |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| trailbrew | POV: pour-over at 2,400 m | 2026-10-08T15:02:11Z | 61204 | 912 | 482310 |
| trailbrew | Unboxing the travel grinder | 2026-10-11T17:40:03Z | 20118 | 344 | 171006 |
| summitcup | The under-$15 kit list | 2026-10-07T13:15:47Z | 33870 | 505 | 310442 |

All 13 columns: `account` (Account), `post_id` (Post ID), `url` (Link), `type` (Format), `title` (Title), `text` (Text), `author` (Author), `published_at` (Published at), `likes` (Likes), `comments` (Comments), `shares` (Shares), `favorites` (Favorites), `views` (Views)

## Inputs it needs

|  |  |  | Example |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `platform` | one platform | The platform the accounts are on | `tiktok` |
| `accounts` | list, up to 10 | The accounts to watch, at most 10: handles or account IDs, whichever the platform's account-posts capability takes | `nasa, natgeo` |

## Last verified run

- Date: 2026-10-13
- Platforms: TikTok
- Calls: 2
- Charged: $0.0030
- Rows: 20
- Against: the platforms, live

## Related

A ready-made Skill of [Competitor monitoring](https://dataxapi.com/solutions/competitor-monitoring/)

Other Skills of this job: [Account check-up](https://dataxapi.com/skills/account-audit/)

The 17 endpoints it uses: [Bilibili user videos](https://dataxapi.com/apis/bilibili/users/videos/list/) ($0.0020), [Douyin user videos](https://dataxapi.com/apis/douyin/users/videos/list/) ($0.0020), [Facebook page posts](https://dataxapi.com/apis/facebook/pages/posts/list/) ($0.0020), [Instagram user posts](https://dataxapi.com/apis/instagram/users/posts/list/) ($0.0020), [Kuaishou user videos](https://dataxapi.com/apis/kuaishou/users/videos/list/) ($0.0200), [LinkedIn company posts](https://dataxapi.com/apis/linkedin/companies/posts/list/) ($0.0020), [Reddit user posts](https://dataxapi.com/apis/reddit/users/posts/list/) ($0.0020), [Telegram channel messages](https://dataxapi.com/apis/telegram/channels/messages/list/) ($0.0020), [Threads user posts](https://dataxapi.com/apis/threads/users/posts/list/) ($0.0020), [TikTok user videos](https://dataxapi.com/apis/tiktok/users/videos/list/) ($0.0020), [WeChat Channels account videos](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_channels/users/videos/list/) ($0.0200), [WeChat Official Account articles](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_mp/accounts/articles/list/) ($0.0200), [Weibo user posts](https://dataxapi.com/apis/weibo/users/posts/list/) ($0.0020), [X user posts](https://dataxapi.com/apis/x/users/posts/list/) ($0.0020), [Xiaohongshu user notes](https://dataxapi.com/apis/xiaohongshu/users/notes/list/) ($0.0200), [YouTube channel videos](https://dataxapi.com/apis/youtube/channels/videos/list/) ($0.0020), [Zhihu user answers](https://dataxapi.com/apis/zhihu/users/answers/list/) ($0.0020)

Platforms it runs on: [Bilibili API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/bilibili/), [Douyin API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/douyin/), [Facebook API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/facebook/), [Instagram API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/instagram/), [Kuaishou API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/kuaishou/), [LinkedIn API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/linkedin/), [Reddit API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/reddit/), [Telegram API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/telegram/), [Threads API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/threads/), [TikTok API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/tiktok/), [WeChat Channels API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_channels/), [WeChat Official Accounts API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/wechat_mp/), [Weibo API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/weibo/), [X (Twitter) API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/x/), [Xiaohongshu (RedNote) API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/xiaohongshu/), [YouTube API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/youtube/), [Zhihu API](https://dataxapi.com/apis/zhihu/)

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Generated from catalog revision c48ce454ae6c4c65, price book 2. [Page](https://dataxapi.com/skills/competitors/)