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Actor Build Starter

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Developed by

Francisco Villarreal

Run builds for multiple actors in your account simultaneously. This can be useful when many actors in a given project have been updated. For example, the documentation might have been updated in 50 actors. This tool will help you trigger actor builds for all 50 at once.

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Pay per usage

Total users

Monthly users

Runs succeeded

>99%

Last modified

2 years ago

Developer tools

Automation

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You can access the Actor Build Starter 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

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "actorNameContains": "my-awesome",
12    "actorIds": [
13        "abc123",
14        "abc123"
15    ]
16};
17
18// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
19const run = await client.actor("fjvs0283/actor-batch-builder").call(input);
20
21// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
22console.log('Results from dataset');
23console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
24const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
25items.forEach((item) => {
26    console.dir(item);
27});
28
29// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Actor Build Starter API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Actor Build Starter API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Actor Build Starter API in Python

Actor Build Starter API through CLI

Actor Build Starter OpenAPI definition

Actor Build Starter API

Delete Builds

useful-tools/delete-builds

Actor that deletes untagged builds of other actors on Apify platform.

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Example Public Actor Input

lukaskrivka/public-actor-input-example

Example of input schema for public scraping actors

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