You can access the Wait and Finish 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    "fail": "",
12    "dataset": {
13        "id": null,
14        "items": [
15            {
16                "id": 1,
17                "text": "My first item"
18            },
19            {
20                "id": 2,
21                "text": "My second item"
22            }
23        ]
24    },
25    "output": {
26        "outputMessage": "Actor finished"
27    },
28    "statusMessage": ""
29};
30
31// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
32const run = await client.actor("useful-tools/wait-and-finish").call(input);
33
34// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
35console.log('Results from dataset');
36console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
37const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
38items.forEach((item) => {
39    console.dir(item);
40});
41
42// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Wait and Finish API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Wait and Finish 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:

Wait and Finish API in Python

Wait and Finish API through CLI

Wait and Finish OpenAPI definition

Wait and Finish API

Actor Builder

useful-tools/actor-builder

Simple Actor which allows to create another Actors build. Used mostly for integration purposes.

Useful tools

Testing actor

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Selenium with wait

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Super Simple UUID API

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

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Send Email

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GIF Scroll Animation

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Example Process Crawl Results

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INCREDIBLY FAST audio transcriber

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⚡️ INCREDIBLY FAST audio transcriber - Process 100+ files/hour with 10x parallel processing. Hours to minutes. 50x faster than manual. Zero wait time. 100+ languages. Instant results!

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Sitemap Sniffer

vaclavrut/sitemap-sniffer

Sitemap sniffer will check the most used variants of sitemaps and you can use that for crawling. This will just save you time so you don't have to check manually.