You can access the Actor Builder 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
12// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
13const run = await client.actor("useful-tools/actor-builder").call(input);
14
15// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
16console.log('Results from dataset');
17console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
18const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
19items.forEach((item) => {
20    console.dir(item);
21});
22
23// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Actor Builder API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Actor Builder 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 Builder API in Python

Actor Builder API through CLI

Actor Builder OpenAPI definition

Actor Builder API

Wait and Finish

useful-tools/wait-and-finish

Simple Actor that will just wait and then finishes. Mostly used for testing integration purposes...

Useful tools

Public Actors Lister

jancurn/public-actors-fetcher

Downloads a list of all Actors published in Apify Store, with all properties such as URL, title, description, etc. This is useful to create a knowledge file for a GPT, so that it knows which Actors can it use.

Jan Čurn

5.0

🎉 Apify Actors

prog-party/apify-actors

This Apify Actors Actor retrieves data from Apify, allowing to filter, and returns a list of actors as a Dataset.

Prog Party

Actors Monitoring

hamza.alwan/actors-monitoring

Hamza Alwan

Actor Task Copier

mtrunkat/actor-task-copier

Copies actor tasks between accounts from one actor to another.

Marek Trunkát

Super Simple UUID API

sscott/super-simple-uuid-api

super simple UUID API. This API allows you to create UUIDs and GUIDs quickly on-the-fly for testing purposes

Scott Williamson

Append to dataset

valek.josef/append-to-dataset

Utility actor that allows you to build a single large dataset from individual default datasets of other actor runs.

Josef Válek

Create Mini Actor

valek.josef/create-mini-actor

Josef Válek

Actor Build Starter

fjvs0283/actor-batch-builder

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.

Francisco Villarreal

Tweet Scraper V1.0 - / Twitter Scrapper

rhamadhanigb19/Scrapping-X

This actor was created to automatically scrape tweets for various purposes, such as research and business. You can use this actor easily. We do not store any cookies required to run the actor.