Apify

Apify lets you run web scraping and browser automation actors — pre-built or custom — directly from your workflows. Use it to extract structured data from websites, trigger long-running crawls, and retrieve the resulting datasets.

Overview

Operations

Configuration

Outputs

Run Actor (Sync) — apify_run_actor_sync

Run Actor (Async) — apify_run_actor_async

Get Run — apify_get_run

Get Dataset — apify_get_dataset

Example

[Starter] → [Apify: Run Actor (Async)] → [Agent: summarize the results]

Trigger the apify/web-scraper actor with {{APIFY_API_KEY}} as the API token and a start URL supplied by an upstream block ({{starter.url}}). Pass {"startUrls": [{"url": "{{starter.url}}"}]} as the JSON input and set itemLimit to 50. Once the actor finishes polling, the items output flows into an Agent block that summarizes the scraped content, referencing it as {{apify.items}}.

Tips

• Sync vs Async — Use Run Actor (Sync) for quick actors that finish in under 5 minutes. For heavy crawls or scrapes that may run longer, use Run Actor (Async), which polls every 5 seconds for up to 5 minutes.
• API token — Get your token from console.apify.com/account#/integrations. Store it as an environment variable and reference it as {{APIFY_API_KEY}} rather than pasting it directly into the block.
• Actor ID format — Always use the username/actor-name slug (e.g. apify/web-scraper) or the actor's unique ID. Misformatted IDs will return a 404 from the Apify API.
• Paginating large datasets — If an actor produces more items than your itemLimit, use Get Dataset with offset and limit to page through results using the datasetId from a completed run.