Crawlee & Apify•15mo ago

too-many-names-same Error using JS Client

We use the Apify JS client and started seeing some strange errors when programmatically creating new actor tasks. Here is the code we use to create a task

const task = await apifyClient.tasks().create({
  actId: "apify/website-content-crawler",
  options: { memoryMbytes: 4096, build: "version-0" },
  input: { ...BASE_TASK_INPUT, startUrls: [{ url }], maxCrawlDepth: depth },
});

const task = await apifyClient.tasks().create({
  actId: "apify/website-content-crawler",
  options: { memoryMbytes: 4096, build: "version-0" },
  input: { ...BASE_TASK_INPUT, startUrls: [{ url }], maxCrawlDepth: depth },
});

As you can see we don't provide an argument for title or name and instead rely on the autogenerated value from Apify, e.g. website-content-crawler-task-2 website-content-crawler-task-3 ... However, the error in the screenshot suggests that there is a name conflict. I suspect that this is happening because we are creating many tasks concurrently and the Apify server's internal counter collides when creating the new task. - Can someone confirm if this is the case? - Is it suggested that we provide own name to avoid issues like this in the future? - What is the valid format for a task name in Apify? (e.g. character limit, valid character set, etc.) - How about task titles? Do they have any name restrictions? Thank you!

3 Replies

sensitive-blue•14mo ago

Our team will reply here soon. Expect a little delay due to few holidays. 🙂

adverse-sapphireOP•14mo ago

Hi @Saurav Jain , thanks for the reply! I'm realizing now that this issue is because we've hit the quota limits for the number of tasks & schedules per user. Would it be possible to request a temporary quota increase while we rearchitect our app to account for this? This would be greatly appreciated, thank you

Pepa J•14mo ago

Hi @Omar Abdelkader Please reach out to the customer support regarding this.

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