How do I get competitor news alerts with looot?

Paste the prompt on this page into your coding agent. It sets up looot, finds the endpoint for each step, checks the price and runs the cheapest one that fits. Edit the names and numbers first.

How much does it cost to get competitor news alerts?

You pay per call, and the price depends on the provider the agent picks. The web version of this page reads the cheapest price for each step live from the catalog and shows the cost per 1,000 competitors when every step is priced.

Which providers can get competitor news alerts?

The providers behind this recipe are exa, newsdata-io, linkup, brave-search. The catalog shows each endpoint's price before you run it.

Can I get competitor news alerts on a schedule?

This recipe is a watch and needs scheduled runs, which are not available yet. You can run it by hand whenever you want, and the agent will report what changed.

Where does the data go when I get competitor news alerts?

The prompt tells your agent to write one row per result to your own Supabase project, with the source, the endpoint, the cost and the time. looot returns the data and bills the call. It does not store your rows.

What can looot not do when I get competitor news alerts?

looot returns data and does not do delivering alerts. Your agent needs another tool for that part.

ResearchNeeds scheduled runs, not available yet

Competitor news alerts

Searches the news for your competitors and lists funding, launches and leadership changes. Your agent needs another tool for alerts.

4 providers

Cost per 1,000 competitor runs

$1.00

1 competitor
one run: 1 calls
per competitor: your Supabase
memory

ResearchNeeds scheduled runs, not available yet

Competitor news alerts

Searches the news for your competitors and lists funding, launches and leadership changes. Your agent needs another tool for alerts.

4 providers

Cost per 1,000 competitor runs

reading live price

1 competitor
one run: 1 calls
per competitor: your Supabase
memory

The prompt

Copy one prompt, give it to your agent.

Edit the names and numbers, paste it, and the agent runs the job and shows the cost.

One run is one competitor.
1 step across 4 providers.
Needs scheduled runs, not available yet. Run it by hand whenever you want.

Prompt: Competitor news alerts

Use looot to search the news for these eight competitors and list headlines about funding, launches or leadership changes. 1. Set up https://looot.ai/skill.md. 2. Connect my Supabase and create the table news_items. 3. Upsert on a natural key and never overwrite my edits. 4. Store source, endpoint, cost and fetched_at on every row. 5. Show any price over one cent first and stop at my daily budget. 6. On a re-run, write only what changed. 7. Report rows added, rows changed and total cost.

Give this to your agent

Setup command

set up looot - https://looot.ai/skill.md

Set up once

Then paste any recipe.

Paste one prompt into your agent

Set up looot

Done, looot is connected.

Copy one prompt from /connect into Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP agent. No SDK, no dashboard click-through first.

Your agent finds the right operation

Hunter$0.0265

Exa$0.0090

Diffbot$0.0032

The agent finds the operation it needs and sees the price first. It calls nothing blind.

You watch what it cost

Hunter$0.0265

Exa$0.0090

Diffbot$0.0032

Total$0.0387

Every call settles for its quoted price and lands in the ledger. You always know what ran and what it cost.

Steps

The calls behind this recipe

Your agent picks each endpoint. Prices are the cheapest live endpoint for the step.

01
Search the news
Exa
NewsData.io API
Linkup
Brave Search
Cheapest$0.0010 / search
capability chosen by your agent, 1 search per competitor

Cost

What competitor runs cost

Your volume

1,000 competitor runs cost about

$1.00

Cheapest live endpoint for every step. The provider your agent picks can cost more.

Price of each step, to scale

Search the news$0.0010 / call

Every run lands in your Supabase

The prompt tells your agent to write one row per result to your own Supabase and skip rows it already has. looot does not store them. See the build kit.

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