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Spawn Workers

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Developed by

Paulo Cesar

This actor lets you spawn tasks or other actors in parallel on the Apify platform that shares a common output dataset, splitting a RequestQueue-like dataset containing request URLs

0.0 (0)

Pricing

Pay per usage

Monthly users

Last modified

3 years ago

Developer tools

Open source

You can access the Spawn Workers programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1echo '{
2  "workerInput": {},
3  "workerOptions": {},
4  "workerCount": 2
5}' |
6apify call pocesar/spawn-workers --silent --output-dataset

Spawn Workers API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Spawn Workers locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the Apify CLI

1npm i -g apify-cli
2apify login

Other API clients include:

Spawn Workers API in Python

Spawn Workers API in JavaScript

Spawn Workers OpenAPI definition

Spawn Workers API

Pricing

Pricing model

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