getting actor input schema
Hi. how to get an actor input-schema.json ?
9 Replies
extended-salmon•3y ago
You want the input schema of an actor existing on the platform?
Which actor?
I mean any actor
for example I want to create a GUI client for running actor and need the INPUT_SCHEMA.json to construct the GUI interface
is there any way to get the input-schema using api or else ?
extended-salmon•3y ago
It doesn't seem possible
The only way I can find is to go to the actor's source code tab:
https://apify.com/apify/google-search-scraper/source-code
Then visit the repo:
https://github.com/apify/actor-google-search-scraper
And grab the INPUT_SCHEMA.json from there
Thanks. I guess I can scrape directly from the actor page. but I wonder if there an official way to do this 🍻
extended-salmon•3y ago
@Lukas Krivka Know of any potential way that I might be missing?
yeah. for example https://apify.com/apify/web-scraper if you look on the HTML source there is
<script id="__NEXT_DATA__" type="application/json">...... the input_schema is there 😃Apify
Web Scraper · Apify
Crawls arbitrary websites using the Chrome browser and extracts data from pages using a provided JavaScript code. The actor supports both recursive crawling and lists of URLs and automatically manages concurrency for maximum performance. This is Apify's basic tool for web crawling and scraping.
extended-salmon•3y ago
Oh epic! Yeah we're using NextJS for static pages. Just wasn't aware the data was present in the
__NEXT_DATA__ object. Cool find!!
Scrape us!! Haha
Very excited to see what you build 🙂 Be sure to share it in #🗨apify-chat once you deploy it!sure 😄 although I am a bit hesitate to use actor to scrap its own host, is it ethical ? 😄 maybe next updates will add the ability to get the schema using api.
extended-salmon•3y ago
Totally ethical! Apify is scraping-friendly 😄 Go right ahead