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title: Apify
slug: apify
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createdAt: 2025-02-03T13:29:01.216Z
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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](https://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.
1. Log in to your Apify account.
2. Click **Settings > Integrations**.
3. Click **+ Add token**.
4. In the **Add authentication token** popup, enter a name for your token, and click **Save**.
5. Copy the token by clicking the Copy button.
6. Go to Make and open the *Create a connection* dialog of the desired Apify module.
7. 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](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2#/reference).