You can access the Actor Benchmark programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

$echo '{
<  "buildNumbers": [
<    "0.3.67",
<    "canary"
<  ],
<  "actorId": "apify/website-content-crawler",
<  "actorInput": {
<    "maxResults": 1,
<    "blockMedia": true,
<    "clickElementsCssSelector": "[aria-expanded=\\"false\\"]",
<    "clientSideMinChangePercentage": 15,
<    "crawlerType": "playwright:adaptive",
<    "proxyConfiguration": {
<      "useApifyProxy": true
<    },
<    "readableTextCharThreshold": 100,
<    "removeElementsCssSelector": "nav, footer, script, style, noscript, svg, img[src^='\''data:'\''],\\n[role=\\"alert\\"],\\n[role=\\"banner\\"],\\n[role=\\"dialog\\"],\\n[role=\\"alertdialog\\"],\\n[role=\\"region\\"][aria-label*=\\"skip\\" i],\\n[aria-modal=\\"true\\"]",
<    "renderingTypeDetectionPercentage": 10,
<    "respectRobotsTxtFile": true,
<    "reuseStoredDetectionResults": false,
<    "signHttpRequests": false,
<    "startUrls": [
<      {
<        "url": "https://docs.apify.com/academy/scraping-basics-javascript"
<      }
<    ],
<    "storeSkippedUrls": false,
<    "useLlmsTxt": false,
<    "useSitemaps": false,
<    "keepUrlFragments": false,
<    "ignoreCanonicalUrl": false,
<    "ignoreHttpsErrors": false,
<    "removeCookieWarnings": true,
<    "expandIframes": true,
<    "aggressivePrune": false,
<    "debugMode": false,
<    "debugLog": false,
<    "saveHtml": false,
<    "saveHtmlAsFile": false,
<    "saveMarkdown": true,
<    "saveFiles": false,
<    "saveScreenshots": false
<  }
<}' |
<apify call apify/actor-benchmark --silent --output-dataset

Actor Benchmark API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Actor Benchmark locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

Other API clients include:

Actor Benchmark API in Python

Actor Benchmark API in JavaScript

Actor Benchmark OpenAPI definition

Actor Benchmark API

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