Dec 9, 2022
Improvements to Apify actors: new input, export, and run origins
New
Console
Actor
New input UI editors
We've deployed a few improvements to Apify actors starting with the new input field editors:
globs
editor for the array fields that maps Crawlee's GlobInput used by the UrlPatterObject. This field is already used by our favorite Web Scraper actor.datepicker
for the string field that enables users to pick a date from the calendar easily.
For more info, see Input Schema specification.
Improved dataset export
We also looked into the other side of the actor usage flow and improved the dataset export form that now includes all the parameters supported by the dataset API:
New actor run origins
Finally, we implemented new actor run origins noting whether an actor run was triggered from the Apify Console UI via the API, scheduler, webhook, or some other actor using the Actor.call()
method.