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dependent-tan
Using Output From One Actor As Input For Another
Curious if I'm missing something or not, but it feels like there should be a way to access the output from one actor, and use it as an input for another.
Specifically, let's say I want to connect the YouTube Channel Scraper (https://apify.com/streamers/youtube-channel-scraper) to the more generic YouTube Scraper (https://apify.com/streamers/youtube-scraper), which gives more details on videos than the Channel Scraper.
The Channel Scraper has as part of its output a list of video URLs, but I can't understand how to feed that in as an input to the generic Scraper, which asks for a text file / list of URLs. Is this even possible?
3 Replies
quickest-silver•2y ago
Hello, this is a known painpoint and there isn't an easy solution now.
1. You can use this actor as an integration and it will serve as a bridge. https://apify.com/valek.josef/forward-dataset-to-actor-or-task
2. You can create "orchestrator" actor that will call first actor, extract video URLs and will can the second one
Apify
Forward Dataset to Actor or Task · Apify
Forwards contents of specified dataset to a specified field on the input of another Actor or task.
quickest-silver•2y ago
Apify is working on simplifying this flow
dependent-tanOP•2y ago
Ah perfect thank you! I got it working in Python instead, but good to know there is a no-code solution (even a workaround)