Ad Angle Miner

Ad Angle Miner

Composite: mine reviews + community + social + competitor ads → tag into angle categories → score & rank → angle bank. Mining of public sources is driven by the agent's web search (keyless, Robomotion Proxy); bundled scripts cover the competitor-ad scrape and the hostile-source Apify fallback. The angle extraction, scoring, ranking, and the bank itself are the agent's reasoning — no LLM call lives in a script.

When to use

• "What angles should we run in our ads?" / "Find pain language for ad copy."
• "What are people complaining about with <competitors>?"
• "Mine reviews for ad messaging" / "I need fresh angles, not the same tired stuff."

How to run

One-time browser setup (for the competitor-ad scrape):

cd ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts && npm install && npx playwright install chromium

1 — Mine public customer voice (you, the agent — keyless)

Drive these via web search (Robomotion Proxy + geo), then read the pages. SERP path: if DATAFORSEO_LOGIN/DATAFORSEO_PASSWORD (or SERPER_API_KEY) is set → use that structured SERP API for higher coverage/precision; if not → the agent's keyless web search (default).

• Reviews — site:g2.com / site:capterra.com / site:trustpilot.com "<competitor> reviews"; pull 1–2★ competitor pain + 4–5★ outcome language.
• Community — site:reddit.com "<category>", "I wish", "switching from", pre-buy questions.
• Social — site:x.com / site:linkedin.com/posts frustration + praise about the category and competitors.

2 — Hostile / volume sources (optional Apify fallback)

When a source blocks search depth (Reddit at depth, Amazon reviews, volume review sites): if APIFY_API_TOKEN is set → use the Apify actor (better depth on hostile/volume sources); if not → degrade to site: web search over public pages (default). Apify runner:

python3 ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/apify_run.py --actor "trudax~reddit-scraper" \
  --input '{"searches":["uipath alternative"],"maxItems":80}' --output ${WORKSPACE}/reddit.json

Without APIFY_API_TOKEN, degrade Reddit/Amazon mining to site: search over public pages and note the reduced depth.

3 — Competitor ads (Meta Ad Library)

node ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/scrape_meta_ads.mjs --query "UiPath" --country US --max-ads 60 --output ${WORKSPACE}/meta_uipath.json

This tells you which angles are validated (long-running), tested, or absent. If Meta blocks the scrape, fall back to a site:facebook.com/ads/library search and lower the "freshness" confidence for that competitor.

4 — Ingest provided internal VoC (optional)

If the user pastes/attaches support tickets, NPS, or call notes, read them in as additional evidence (the agent ingests directly; for PDFs/docs use the platform's document reader).

5 — Extract, score, rank (you, the agent)

Tag every snippet into angle categories — Pain / Outcome / Identity / Fear / Displacement / Social-proof / Contrast — attaching 2–5 verbatim, attributed quotes each (never fabricate sources; drop angles with zero retrievable proof to Tier 3). Score each angle: evidence 30 / emotional intensity 25 / differentiation 20 / ICP relevance 15 / freshness 10. Exclude any tested_angles the user already ran. Build the competitive angle map (validated vs. tested vs. absent per competitor) and a test plan. Tier: 1 ≥70, 2 50–69, 3 <50.

6 — Render

Write angle-bank-<YYYY-MM-DD>.md to ${WORKSPACE} and attach to the Agent Teams channel.

Outputs

angle-bank-<YYYY-MM-DD>.md — tiered ranked angles, each with category, score, emotional register, 2–5 proof quotes + source, source count, competitor weakness, recommended format, sample headline/body; plus a competitive angle map and a test plan.

Credentials / env

• Required: none — public mining runs on web search + the keyless Meta scraper; the extraction/scoring/ranking is the agent's reasoning (no LLM key in scripts).
• Optional (each with a keyless default fallback):
  • APIFY_API_TOKEN — if set → Apify Reddit/Amazon/review-site actor for hostile/volume depth; else → site: web search + the Playwright Meta scraper (default).
  • DATAFORSEO_LOGIN/DATAFORSEO_PASSWORD (or SERPER_API_KEY) — if set → structured SERP API for the mining queries; else → the agent's keyless web search (default).
  • HTTPS_PROXY — Robomotion Proxy for the Meta scraper and SERP mining.

Notes & edge cases

• Always lead with web search + Robomotion Proxy/geo; reserve Apify for sites that block it.
• Quotes must be verbatim and attributed — drop unprovable angles to Tier 3, don't invent.
• Meta Ad Library is JS-heavy and anti-bot — throttle, randomize, proxy; degrade to site: snippets if blocked and lower the freshness confidence.
• Dedup near-identical angles before ranking so the bank isn't padded with restatements.