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Contains a basic boilerplate of an Apify actor with Node.js source code and a custom Dockerfile. The purpose of this actor is to help you get started quickly to create your own actors.

4.0 (2)

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Pay per usage

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Monthly users

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Last modified

a year ago

Developer tools

Open source

You can access the Quick Start for Actor Creation 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 '{}' |
<apify call apify/quick-start --silent --output-dataset

Quick Start for Actor Creation API through CLI

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

Install the Apify CLI

$npm i -g apify-cli
$apify login

Other API clients include:

Quick Start for Actor Creation API in Python

Quick Start for Actor Creation API in JavaScript

Quick Start for Actor Creation OpenAPI definition

Quick Start for Actor Creation API

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