Template

REPLACE: Skill Title

REPLACE: One-line summary of what this skill helps the agent accomplish.

Prerequisites

• Apify account (sign up)
• Authentication via one of:
• apify login (OAuth, if using the Apify CLI)
• APIFY_TOKEN environment variable
• Token from Apify Console → Settings → Integrations

Workflow

1. REPLACE: Understand the user's goal, pick the right Actor(s).
2. REPLACE: Fetch the Actor's input schema, build a valid input.
3. REPLACE: Run the Actor, confirm with user if estimated cost is significant.
4. REPLACE: Deliver results (count, format, link to dataset/console).

For a worked 4-step workflow, see apify/agent-skills ultimate-scraper.

Actor routing

| User need | Actor ID | Tier | Best for | |-----------|----------|------|----------| | REPLACE | apify/REPLACE-actor | apify | REPLACE | | REPLACE | community/REPLACE-actor | community | REPLACE |

Tier = apify (Apify-maintained, prefer) or community (third-party).

Calling Actors — choose your interface

Skills in this repo can call Actors via any of these interfaces. Pick the one that fits your runtime; cross-tool compatibility is your responsibility.

Option A: Apify CLI (recommended for portability)

Works in any shell-capable agent. Three flags on every call:

apify actors call "ACTORID" -i 'JSONINPUT' \ --json \ --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/REPLACE-skill-name \ 2>/dev/null

| Flag | Why | |------|-----| | --json | Stable machine-readable output | | --user-agent | Apify telemetry attribution | | 2>/dev/null | Suppress progress messages that break JSON |

Other useful commands:

# Search Actors apify actors search "KEYWORDS" --json --limit 10 2>/dev/null

# Fetch Actor schema apify actors info "ACTOR_ID" --input --json \ --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/REPLACE-skill-name 2>/dev/null

# Fetch results apify datasets get-items DATASET_ID --format json \ --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/REPLACE-skill-name 2>/dev/null

For the canonical command set with all flags, see apify/agent-skills ultimate-scraper.

Option B: Apify MCP connector

Hosted MCP server at . Documented at .

Option C: MCP client of your choice (e.g. mcpc)

Standalone CLI client. See .

Troubleshooting

• REPLACE: common error 1 → fix
• REPLACE: common error 2 → fix
• For detailed cost guardrails and recovery, see [references/gotchas.md](references/gotchas.md).

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: apify
• Source: apify/awesome-skills
• License: Apache-2.0

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.