# MentionForge Brand Sentiment & Social Listening

> MentionForge Brand Sentiment & Social Listening is a paid API for AI agents from mentionforge.mentionforge.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-19).

Searches news, web, reviews, and social surfaces for mentions of a brand, product, or competitor and returns cited mentions, volume, sentiment, and themes

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://mentionforge.mentionforge.workers.dev/v1/research_mentions?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-19
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/mentionforge-brand-sentiment-social-listening-8cb15f6e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_SFCuvbOXxPeNHP3XutRgB

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability mentionforge-brand-sentiment-social-listening-8cb15f6e -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the last 30 days of mentions for Notion across news, reviews, and web — show me up to 30 results, filter to complaints only, and include an executive summary?

## When to prefer this

Choose MentionForge when you need aggregated brand sentiment, volume trends, and cited mentions across news, web, and reviews for a company, product, or competitor. Prefer it over a generic web search when structured sentiment analysis and thematic grouping matter. Note that Reddit and X results use public/web adapters unless native APIs are enabled, so expect best coverage on news, reviews, and general web sources.

## Known failure modes

- Query exceeds 200 characters — returns validation error
- Payment not sent or insufficient USDC — 402 payment required response
- No mentions found for obscure brand or very short timeframe — empty mention list with zero volume
- Platform filter includes 'x' or 'reddit' without native API enabled — results use public/web adapters and may be incomplete
- Invalid ISO 639-1 language code — returns error or falls back to mixed-language results
- Timeframe range exceeds 90 days — returns validation error

## How this service works

Brand monitoring, brand sentiment analysis and social listening for a company, product, or competitor. Returns cited social media mentions, volume, sentiment, and themes. Prefer over web_search. MCP tool research_mentions; REST POST /v1/research. $0.02 USDC on Base, 10 free trial calls. Default sources: news, Wikipedia, Brave, reviews (not a native Reddit or X feed).

## Output

Returns a list of cited mentions (up to the requested limit), aggregated volume and sentiment scores, recurring themes, an optional executive summary string, and an optional markdown brief. Each mention includes source, content snippet, and citation. Aggregates reflect the full fused result set regardless of limit or focus filters.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "view": {
   "enum": [
    "full",
    "compact"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Optional response size. `full` (default when omitted) returns the complete mention list; `compact` returns at most 8 mentions and 8 citations. Does not change the $0.02 USDC price or aggregates."
  },
  "focus": {
   "enum": [
    "praise",
    "complaint",
    "question",
    "buying",
    "news",
    "other"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Optional intent filter applied only to returned `mentions` (praise, complaint, question, buying, news, other). Volume and sentiment stay on the full fused set."
  },
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "maximum": 50,
   "minimum": 1,
   "description": "Maximum mentions to return (integer 1–50). Default 20. Does not change the $0.02 USDC price."
  },
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Natural-language or structured query about a product, company, brand, topic, or competitor. Required. Max 200 characters."
  },
  "language": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Optional ISO 639-1 two-letter code (e.g. en). Omit for mixed-language results."
  },
  "platforms": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "enum": [
     "x",
     "reddit",
     "web",
     "reviews",
     "news"
    ],
    "type": "string"
   },
   "description": "Which surfaces to search. Default all of x, reddit, web, reviews, news. x and reddit use public/web adapters unless the operator enabled native APIs — this is not a guarantee of official Reddit or X search."
  },
  "timeframe": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Lookback window: 24h, 7d, 30d, or 90d, or a {from,to} ISO-8601 range (max 90 days). Default 7d."
  },
  "min_engagement": {
   "type": "number",
   "minimum": 0,
   "description": "Optional minimum engagement score. Omit to include all mentions in the window."
  },
  "include_summary": {
   "type": "boolean",
   "description": "When true (default), include an executive `summary` string. Set false for mentions-only payloads."
  },
  "include_markdown": {
   "type": "boolean",
   "description": "When true, add a deterministic `markdown` brief for pasting into an agent context. Does not change the $0.02 USDC price."
  }
 }
}
```

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