Apify

At a glance

Set these per environment. See Connect an integration.

Variable	Required	Description
`APIFY_TOKEN`	Yes	Apify API token (starts with apify_api_) Docs.

Create an Apify account: Sign up at https://console.apify.com - the free plan includes monthly platform credits, enough for testing small actor runs.
Copy your API token: In the Apify Console go to Settings → API & Integrations (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations) and copy your personal API token (apify_api_…).
Store the token: Add it to your .env file as APIFY_TOKEN=apify_api_…
Verify access: Run the List Actors tool. To run a store actor you have not used before, reference it as username~~actorname (e.g. apify~~web-scraper) - each actor’s input schema is on its store page.

Actor runs consume platform credits based on compute, memory, and storage - check the actor’s pricing on the Apify Store
Run Actor (Sync) waits up to 300 seconds; for longer scrapes start the run asynchronously in the Apify Console and fetch results with Get Dataset Items
Responses are wrapped in a ‘data’ property; dataset item responses are plain arrays

Tool	Access	Description
List Actors	Read	List actors in your Apify account
Run Actor (Sync)	Write	Run an actor, wait for it to finish (up to 300s), and return its dataset items (consumes platform credits)
Get Run	Read	Get the status and details of an actor run, including its defaultDatasetId
List Runs	Read	List recent actor runs in your account
Get Dataset Items	Read	Fetch items from a dataset produced by an actor run

Run an Apify actor to scrape a website I specify and summarize the extracted data.
List my recent Apify actor runs with their statuses and fetch the dataset items of the latest successful one.