Google Alerts Monitor

Monitor keywords via free web search. Use when: (1) Tracking brand or product mentions, (2) Monitoring industry keywords, (3) Researching competitors and market trends, (4) Daily competitive intel reports. Creates Hootsuite-style formatted output from search results.

Keyword monitoring with Hootsuite-style output. Free, no API keys required.

What This Skill Does

• Fetches Google Alerts RSS feeds for your keywords
• Formats results into visual, social-media-style cards
• Prints clean JSON output and formatted text for use by agents or cron jobs

What this skill does NOT do: It does not save files, schedule cron jobs, or post to chat. Those integrations are handled by your agent prompt or external automation.

Keywords

Edit references/keywords.md with your own keywords. One per line.

Search Script

# Set your Google Alert feed ID (see setup-guide.md)
export GOOGLE_ALERT_FEED_ID="your_feed_id_here"

# Search a keyword
bash scripts/search.sh "your keyword" 10

Output: JSON array of results (title, link, description, published date)

Formatter Script

Takes JSON results and formats them into Hootsuite-style cards:

bash scripts/search.sh "your keyword" 10 \
  | python3 scripts/format-results.py --term "your keyword" --source google --count 10

Output Format

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📊 YOUR KEYWORD — GOOGLE
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👤 Result Title · 3h ago
"Description text preview truncated to 280 chars..."
↗️ https://example.com/link
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Setup

1. Create Google Alerts at google.com/alerts
2. Get the RSS feed ID from each alert's feed URL
3. Set GOOGLE_ALERT_FEED_ID in your environment or edit scripts/search.sh
4. See references/setup-guide.md for details

Scripts

• scripts/search.sh — Fetch Google Alerts RSS, output JSON
• scripts/format-results.py — Format JSON results as Hootsuite-style cards

References

• references/keywords.md — Keyword definitions
• references/setup-guide.md — Detailed setup instructions