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Dec 9, 2022

Improvements to Apify actors: new input, export, and run origins

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Console

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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.

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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:

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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.

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Marek Trunkat

CTO