IT and Development
Apify
8min
the apify modules allow you to monitor and run actors and tasks or fetch dataset items in your apify account to get started with apify, create an at my apify com connect apify to make to connect your apify account to make you need to obtain the api token from your apify account log in to your apify account click settings > integrations click + add token in the add authentication token popup, enter a name for your token, and click save copy the token by clicking the copy button go to make and open the create a connection dialog of the desired apify module in the api token field, enter the value copied in step 5 and click save you have successfully connected the apify app and can now build make triggers watch actor runs triggers when a selected actor run is finished field description webhook name enter the desired name for the webhook e g finished web scraper run connection establish a connection to your apify account actor select the actor you want to monitor for finished runs watch task runs triggers when a selected task run is finished field description webhook name enter the desired name for the webhook e g finished web scraper run connection establish a connection to your apify account actor select the actor you want to monitor for finished runs actions run a task runs a selected actor task field description connection establish a connection to your apify account task select or map the task you want to run run synchronously make will wait until the task run is finished beware that the maximum timeout for the run is 120 seconds input json overrides here you can enter a json object to override the task input configuration only the provided fields will be overridden, the rest will be left unchanged you can see the json task input configuration when you switch from editor to raw display of the input configuration run an actor runs a selected actor field description connection establish a connection to your apify account actor select or map the id of the actor you want to run run synchronously make will wait until the task run is finished beware that the maximum timeout for the run is 120 seconds input json here you can enter a json object to override the task input configuration only the provided fields will be overridden, the rest will be left unchanged you can see the json task input configuration when you switch from editor to raw display of the input configuration build specify the actor build to run it can be either a build tag or build number by default, the run uses the build specified in the default run configuration for the actor (typically 'latest') timeout enter the timeout for the run in seconds by default, the run uses a timeout specified in the default run configuration for the actor memory select or enter memory limit for the run, in megabytes by default, the run uses a memory limit specified in the default run configuration for the actor searches get dataset items retrieves items from a dataset field description connection establish a connection to your apify account dataset id enter the id of the dataset you want to retrieve items from data transformation select a type of data transformation clean returns only non empty items and skips hidden fields (fields starting with the # character) simplified it formats items to emulate simplified results provided by the legacy apify crawler product format select the format of the dataset items limit set the maximum number of items make will return during one execution cycle offset enter the number of items to skip for more detailed information about the rest of the module functions, please refer to the apify docs