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Crawlee & Apify•15mo ago
genetic-orange

Apify API not working

I'm developing a custom actor for my project and it fully works as I intended it but when I use the apify API to interact with it programmatically the actor doesn't seem to be receiving the inputs as it should be. I send it as JSON properly and everything but it gives me the error: 
2024-03-05T03:14:23.013Z undefined:1
2024-03-05T03:14:23.014Z [object Object]
2024-03-05T03:14:23.015Z  ^
2024-03-05T03:14:23.016Z
2024-03-05T03:14:23.017Z SyntaxError: Unexpected token o in JSON at position 1
2024-03-05T03:14:23.018Z     at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
2024-03-05T03:14:23.019Z     at file:///usr/src/app/src/main.js:65:26
2024-03-05T03:14:23.020Z     at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
2024-03-05T03:14:23.023Z
2024-03-05T03:14:23.026Z Node.js v18.19.1
2024-03-05T03:14:23.013Z undefined:1
2024-03-05T03:14:23.014Z [object Object]
2024-03-05T03:14:23.015Z  ^
2024-03-05T03:14:23.016Z
2024-03-05T03:14:23.017Z SyntaxError: Unexpected token o in JSON at position 1
2024-03-05T03:14:23.018Z     at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
2024-03-05T03:14:23.019Z     at file:///usr/src/app/src/main.js:65:26
2024-03-05T03:14:23.020Z     at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
2024-03-05T03:14:23.023Z
2024-03-05T03:14:23.026Z Node.js v18.19.1
Not really sure where to go from here, but i'd appreciate any help.
4 Replies
genetic-orange
genetic-orangeOP•15mo ago
Just as a follow up it appears to be scraping properly just is having issues processing everything from there
painful-plum
painful-plum•15mo ago
Could you please provide a code snippet or a reproduction of the issue? It's difficult to offer assistance having only the error trace above.
genetic-orange
genetic-orangeOP•15mo ago
Hey so im not at my computer rn but I can explain it When I run apify api from postman or dashboard it scrapes without issue When I run it from heroku i THINK target site is blocking me Im using proxies as well on the http reqs Im solving their antibot and everything I realize it may be a problem with the server getting blocked but the fact that its still catching me through my proxies idrk what to do
painful-plum
painful-plum•15mo ago
Try to log response from your target site. Also, here is some article for inspiration: https://docs.apify.com/academy/node-js/analyzing-pages-and-fixing-errors Otherwise, still, providing some code snippets / full reproduction, you use, is the best way to go.

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