🧠 Smart Data Converters — Apify Actor

A versatile 5-in-1 data conversion actor that intelligently transforms data between formats. Every converter includes sensible defaults in the input schema so you can run it instantly without any configuration.

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Converters

#	Converter	Input	Output
1	HTML → Clean Text	Raw HTML / URL	Plain text (no tags, ads, scripts)
2	HTML → Article Summary	Raw HTML / URL	Title, metadata, extractive summary
3	JSON → Human-Readable Report	JSON string	Formatted report with tables & stats
4	Logs → Structured JSON	Raw log text	Parsed entries + summary analytics
5	Form Input → API Request	Form fields JSON	Full HTTP request payload

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Quick Start

1. Select a converter via the converter_type dropdown.
2. Provide input (or use the pre-filled defaults).
3. Run the actor — results are pushed to the default dataset.

All fields have defaults, so you can run the actor immediately after selecting a converter type.

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Input Schema Overview

Global

Field	Type	Default	Description
converter_type	select	html_to_clean_text	Which converter to run
url_to_scrape	string	""	Optional URL to fetch HTML from (overrides html_input)

Converter 1 & 2 — HTML Input

Field	Type	Default
html_input	textarea	Sample AI article HTML
preserve_links	boolean	true
preserve_line_breaks	boolean	true
summary_sentences	integer	5

Converter 3 — JSON Input

Field	Type	Default
json_input	textarea	Sample company data JSON
report_max_width	integer	100

Converter 4 — Log Input

Field	Type	Default
log_input	textarea	10 sample app log lines

Converter 5 — Form + API Config

Field	Type	Default
form_input	textarea	Sample user registration fields
field_mapping	textarea	Dot-notation mapping to nested API paths
api_base_url	string	https://api.example.com
api_endpoint	string	/v2/users/register
api_method	select	POST
api_auth_type	select	bearer
validation_rules	textarea	Sample required/min/max rules

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Output

Results are pushed to the default dataset as structured JSON. Key outputs are also saved to the key-value store as plain text:

Converter	KV Store Key	Content
html_to_clean_text	clean_text.txt	Cleaned plain text
html_to_article_summary	summary.txt	Formatted summary
json_to_report	report.txt	ASCII-formatted report

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Project Structure

apify-smart-converters/
├── .actor/
│   ├── actor.json            # Actor metadata & config
│   └── input_schema.json     # Full input schema with defaults
├── src/
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── main.py               # Actor entry point & routing
│   └── converters.py         # All 5 converter classes
├── Dockerfile
├── requirements.txt
└── README.md

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Running Locally

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Set input via environment or INPUT.json
echo '{"converter_type": "html_to_clean_text"}' > INPUT.json

# Run
python -m src.main

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Supported Log Formats (Converter 4)

The log parser auto-detects:

• Apache Combined — 127.0.0.1 - - [10/Oct/2000:13:55:36 -0700] "GET /index.html ..."
• Nginx Error — 2024/06/15 08:30:02 [error] 1234#0: ...
• Syslog — Jun 15 08:30:01 myhost sshd[1234]: ...
• Generic App — 2024-06-15T08:30:01.123Z [INFO] [Source] message
• JSON Lines — {"timestamp": "...", "level": "INFO", "message": "..."}

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License

MIT