Forward dataset as POST data

"Forward dataset Actor" forwards the results of a run, as data of a POST request. It was designed to forward results from crawler.

⏩ Why do I need to forward my Actor dataset ?

If you don't know how to get

🔍 What does this Actor do?

📫 You want to be sent the results of your Actor run, without having to go to the APIFY plateform to fetch it 😫. It avoids a call to the Apify API !

Use case

• ⏩ avoid fetching results on APIFY
• 📁 Populate a database quickly
• 🪄 check data with a monitoring tool
• ...

👨🏻‍🎓 How to setup ?

• Go to one of your Actors (not this one), and add a webhook : it can be in the integration tab if not available in your actor INPUTs.
• Simply provide this actor URL as webhook, it should be this format https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_ACCOUNT~forward-dataset-webhook/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN
• Then, add your new endpoint in the input "Finish webhook data". That's it. You can test 🙂

🐛 TroubleShooting

• we recommend to use "https://webhook.site/ to ease the set up if you encounter some issues
• The token is inherited from your APIFY account. That's why you cannot use this actor to fetch the actor's data of another APIFY account.
• because this actor was designed initially to forward results from the apify/legacy-phantomjs-crawler, you may need to adapt to your actor integration

⚙️ Advanced configuration

These variables are available to play with

• data : the new url to use as a new webhook
• datasetId : coming from your APIFY actor webhook.

Environment variables

• timeout : The timeout for request in this actor to finish. To be increased if the size of your dataset is big. Unit = milliseconds
• format : json or csv. The apify format you would like to receive the data