apify-hello-world

# Apify Hello World ## Overview Run a public Actor from the Apify Store, wait for it to finish, and retrieve the scraped data. This demonstrates the fundamental call-wait-collect pattern used in every Apify integration. ## Prerequisites - `npm install apify-client` completed - `APIFY_TOKEN` environment variable set - See `apify-install-auth` if not ready ## Core Pattern: Call Actor, Get Data ```typescript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN }); // 1. Run an Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor('apify/website-content-crawler').call({ startUrls: [{ url: 'https://docs.apify.com/academy' }], maxCrawlPages: 5, }); // 2. Retrieve results from the default dataset const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); console.log(`Crawled ${items.length} pages:`); items.forEach(item => { console.log(` - ${item.url}: ${item.text?.substring(0, 80)}...`); }); ``` ## Instructions ### Step 1: Create the Script Create `hello-apify.ts` (or `.js`) with the code above. ### Step 2: Run It ```bash # With tsx (recommended) npx tsx hello-apify.ts # Or with Node.js (plain JS) node hello-apify.js ``` ### Step 3: Understand the Output The Actor runs on Apify's cloud infrastructure. When it finishes: - `run.id` — unique run identifier - `run.status` — `SUCCEEDED`, `FAILED`, `TIMED-OUT`, or `ABORTED` - `run.defaultDatasetId` — ID of the dataset containing result...