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Apify Actor Development

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apify·vlatest·devops

Build custom web automation actors with Apify Actor Development, streamlining data extraction and task execution across the web efficiently.

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Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add apify/agent-skills --skill apify-actor-development -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

apify

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill failed 1 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: failed

    Runs code fetched at install time in 1 place.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

    What it found

    • skills/apify-actor-development/SKILL.md:35tells the user to run: remote script piped into a shell(in the instructions, not code)
      > (e.g. `curl … | bash` or `irm … | iex`). Always use a package manager.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned apify/agent-skills at 8449f30c74.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
8449f30c74
Manifest
skills/apify-actor-development/SKILL.md
Scanned
9 files, 1,077 lines
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About this skill

What it does

The apify-actor-development skill enables developers to build, test, and deploy Apify Actors—scalable web scraping and data extraction tools. It provides a framework for creating reusable components that can be executed in the cloud or locally.

When to use it

  • You need to extract structured data from websites at scale.
  • You're building an AI agent that requires reliable access to external data sources.
  • You want to automate repetitive tasks like monitoring price changes or gathering social media insights.

Key capabilities

  • Create and manage Apify Actors using a modular architecture.
  • Run actors in the cloud with built-in scalability features.
  • Debug and test actors locally before deployment.

Example prompts

  • "Create an actor that scrapes product prices from an e-commerce site."
  • "Set up an actor to monitor Twitter for mentions of my brand."
  • "Test this actor locally to ensure it handles pagination correctly."

Tips & gotchas

  • Ensure you have a valid Apify account and API token for cloud execution.
  • Local testing may require additional setup, such as installing dependencies manually.