Apify Actors

Run Apify Actors for web scraping and automation.

What it does

Runs a prebuilt scraper from Apify's library — Instagram profiles, Google Maps listings, marketplace results. Use it when somebody has already solved the extraction you need.

What you need

API token from Apify. apify.com → Settings → Integrations → Personal API tokens.

Connecting it

Credentials belong to one project, not to your workspace and not to you. A system built for one client never runs on another client's account, and a package handed to a business runs on theirs.

Open the project and stay on the Visual Editor tab.
Open the Tools & Integrations rail on the right.
Find this tool, open it, and paste the credential.

To change it later, open the same panel — you can leave the key blank to keep the stored one and change only the other field.

Using it in a step

An Action step runs one tool with the arguments you type, exactly as written, with no model involved — so it costs nothing per run and behaves the same every time. Add one from the canvas toolbar, choose Apify Actors, and fill in:

Field	Required	What goes in it
`actor`	yes	The actor's id, e.g. `apify/instagram-scraper`.
`input_json`	no	That actor's own input, as JSON. Copy the example from its Apify page.

Values can carry results forward: {{previous}} is the step before, and {{row:column}} is a column from the row this run is about when the trigger fans out.

Press Try it to run the step on its own before committing to a whole sequence.

Using it with an agent

Tick Apify Actors on any agent that should be able to call it, and the agent decides when to. Use an agent when the judgement matters and an Action step when the certainty does.

A worked example

A marketing agency pulls Google Maps listings for every pharmacy in Ikeja, then an agent drafts an outreach message per listing.

When it goes wrong

The input JSON has to match that actor's schema. Each actor defines its own; copy the example from the actor's Apify page rather than guessing.