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Quick Start for Actor Creation

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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

Monthly users

Runs succeeded

>99%

Last modified

10 months 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

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {}
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("apify/quick-start").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
15for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Quick Start for Actor Creation API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Quick Start for Actor Creation API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Quick Start for Actor Creation API in JavaScript

Quick Start for Actor Creation API through CLI

Quick Start for Actor Creation OpenAPI definition

Quick Start for Actor Creation API

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