Apify Actor Development Kit
SkillWeb & browsingThis skill lets your AI build Apify Actors, which are scrapers designed to collect web data at scale in the cloud. It uses the Apify SDK and the Crawlee library, so the scrapers it builds get automatic proxy management and built-in storage. Once added, your AI can turn a scraping task into a working cloud project.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Add the skill and describe the website or data you want to collect; your AI will build an Apify Actor for the job. You can review the code at github.com/agentskillexchange/skills.
Then ask your AI: use the Apify Actor Development Kit skill
What your AI can do with it
- Build Apify Actors for scalable cloud scraping
- Set up automatic proxy management for scrapers
- Store collected data in Apify datasets and key-value stores
- Manage request queues while crawling websites
- Crawl websites with the Crawlee library for robust results
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by agentskillexchange/skills in skills/apify-actor-development-kit/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Builds Apify Actors for scalable cloud scraping with automatic proxy management and storage. Uses the Apify SDK (Actor, Dataset, KeyValueStore, RequestQueue) and Crawlee library for robust crawling.
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- npm install apify
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- Apify SDK requires Node.js 16 or later. Add Apify SDK to any Node.js project by running:
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
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This short tutorial will set you up to start using Apify SDK in a minute or two.
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If you want to learn more, proceed to the Apify Platform
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guide that will take you step by step through running your Actor on Apify's platform.
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Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apify/apify-sdk-js/HEAD/README.md
Source
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 38
- Forks
- 53
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
apify-actor-development-kit- Source
- github.com/agentskillexchange/skills