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Overview

Apify Actors are lightweight, containerized programs that automate tasks like web scraping, data processing, and workflows. Perfect for:
  • Web scraping — extract data from websites using pre-built scrapers
  • Data processing — transform and analyze data with specialized tools
  • Automation tasks — run complex workflows with thousands of available Actors
Apify offers 6,000+ pre-built Actors that handle everything from social media scraping to data transformation, so you don’t have to build scrapers from scratch.

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Run Actor Action

  • What it does: Executes a selected Apify Actor with the specified configuration to perform web scraping, data processing, or other automated tasks.
Run Actor action configuration

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Inputs

  • Actor: Select the specific Apify Actor you want to run from the available options
  • Variable inputs: After selecting an Actor, you’ll see additional input fields specific to that Actor’s requirements

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Outputs

  • Results: The data or output returned by the Actor (varies by Actor type)

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Best Practices

  • Browse the Apify Store to find Actors for your specific needs
  • Check Actor documentation for required inputs and configuration
  • Test with small datasets before running large scraping jobs
  • Verify Actor reliability and recent updates
  • Monitor Actor runtime and resource usage
  • Use appropriate Actor tiers based on your data volume needs
  • Set reasonable timeouts for long-running scraping tasks
  • Consider rate limits when scraping multiple websites
  • Review Actor output format before integration
  • Store results in variables or context for further processing
  • Clean and validate scraped data before use

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Next Steps

Perplexity Search

Research and gather information before scraping

Context Management

Store scraped data for your agent’s memory

Set Variables

Save Actor results for use in other workflow steps

Parallel Browsing

Alternative web research and data enrichment