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How to input specific URLs?

I would like to add an input to my actor as such: - "website1.com" - "website2.com" How can I do this best in the Apify input schema and how can I extract these URL strings in Typescript code? The below approach unfortunately does not work:

interface InputSchema {
  companyWebsites: string[];
  sortBy: string;
  filterByStarRating: string;
  filterBylanguage: string;
  filterByVerified: string;
  startFromPageNumber: number;
  endAtPageNumber: number;
}
const input = await Actor.getInput<InputSchema>();
let companyWebsites: string[] | undefined = input?.companyWebsites;
companyWebsites?.forEach(function (companyWebsite) {
  console.log(companyWebsite);
});

interface InputSchema {
  companyWebsites: string[];
  sortBy: string;
  filterByStarRating: string;
  filterBylanguage: string;
  filterByVerified: string;
  startFromPageNumber: number;
  endAtPageNumber: number;
}
const input = await Actor.getInput<InputSchema>();
let companyWebsites: string[] | undefined = input?.companyWebsites;
companyWebsites?.forEach(function (companyWebsite) {
  console.log(companyWebsite);
});

5 Replies

Alexey Udovydchenko•2y ago

Aproach looks correct, you need array of string in input https://docs.apify.com/academy/deploying-your-code/input-schema then create urls from strings.

genetic-orangeOP•2y ago

thanks should StringList or Json be used for editor type? When I try to foreach loop the companyWebsites array and add it to an URL it seems to think it is an object instead: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/[object%20Object]?sort=recency&stars=5&languages=en&verified=true&page=2 the [object%20Object] should just be for example ebay.com For example this:

const input = await Actor.getInput<InputSchema>();
let companyWebsites: string[] | undefined = input?.companyWebsites;

companyWebsites?.forEach(function (companyWebsite) {
  console.log("validating companyWebsites");
  console.log(companyWebsite);
});

const input = await Actor.getInput<InputSchema>();
let companyWebsites: string[] | undefined = input?.companyWebsites;

companyWebsites?.forEach(function (companyWebsite) {
  console.log("validating companyWebsites");
  console.log(companyWebsite);
});

Output this in console: validating companyWebsites { url: 'trustpilot.com' } I just need to output a simple sting, not an object as it does at the moment @Apify

unwilling-turquoise•2y ago

Hey! Use: console.log(companyWebsite.url); . This probably happened because you used "editor": "requestListSources" in the input schema file.

genetic-orangeOP•2y ago

@lemurio Hi, The schema looks like this so there is no url property:

interface InputSchema {
  companyWebsites: string[];
  sortBy: string;
  filterByStarRating: string;
  filterBylanguage: string;
  filterByVerified: string;
  startFromPageNumber: number;
  endAtPageNumber: number;
}

interface InputSchema {
  companyWebsites: string[];
  sortBy: string;
  filterByStarRating: string;
  filterBylanguage: string;
  filterByVerified: string;
  startFromPageNumber: number;
  endAtPageNumber: number;
}

I have tried with "editor": "json" and it also fails. Do you have other suggestions? Is there some standard way of handling such a scenario where you need to input different uri/urls in this context?

unwilling-turquoise•2y ago

hey, by input schema file I mean the file where you specify how the input for this actor would look like. To have the urls as a list of strings, the specification of the property could look like this

"urls": {
  "title": "URLs of the pages",
  "type": "array",
  "description": "The URLs of websites you want to get the data from.",
  "editor": "stringList",
  "prefill": ["https://www.apify.com", "https://docs.apify.com/"]
 }:

"urls": {
  "title": "URLs of the pages",
  "type": "array",
  "description": "The URLs of websites you want to get the data from.",
  "editor": "stringList",
  "prefill": ["https://www.apify.com", "https://docs.apify.com/"]
 }:

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