This skill provides the technical guidance necessary to create, debug, and deploy Apify Actors. It assists developers in managing the full lifecycle of a serverless cloud program, from initial coding to platform deployment.
By focusing on the precise construction of input and output schemas, it ensures that Actors are structured correctly for integration. It is designed for those building new Actors from scratch or troubleshooting existing code and schema files.
Follow the documented setup, then try a first task.
See the repository for installation instructions.
Open repository instructions ↗Uses apify-ultimate-scraper
Make sure apify-ultimate-scraper is installed in your agent before trying this task.
Use apify-ultimate-scraper to look up Nike's Instagram follower count and present a quick answer in chat with the run and dataset links.
Uses apify-actor-development
Make sure apify-actor-development is installed in your agent before trying this task.
Use apify-actor-development to inspect this existing Actor's source and create or update .actor/input_schema.json. Include every input field the code reads, with a title, description, type, and default or prefill, then validate the schema locally.
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