Apify Dataset

Overview

Apify is a web scraping and web automation platform providing both ready-made and custom solutions, an open-source JavaScript SDK and Python SDK for web scraping, proxies, and many other tools to help you build and run web automation jobs at scale.

The results of a scraping job are usually stored in the Apify Dataset. This Airbyte connector provides streams to work with the datasets, including syncing their contents to your chosen destination using Airbyte.

To sync data from a dataset, all you need to know is its ID. You will find it in Apify console under storages.

Currently, only datasets provided by the Website Content Crawler Actor are supported. Adding streams for other Actors or a stream for the general dataset (with dynamic schema) will be added soon.

Running Airbyte sync from Apify webhook

When your Apify job (aka Actor run) finishes, it can trigger an Airbyte sync by calling the Airbyte API manual connection trigger (POST /v1/connections/sync). The API can be called from Apify webhook which is executed when your Apify run finishes.

Features

Feature	Supported?
Full Refresh Sync	Yes
Incremental Sync	Yes

Performance considerations

The Apify dataset connector uses Apify Python Client under the hood and should handle any API limitations under normal usage.

Streams

dataset_collection

• Calls api.apify.com/v2/datasets (docs)
• Properties:
  • Apify Personal API token (you can find it here)

dataset

• Calls https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/{datasetId} (docs)
• Properties:
  • Apify Personal API token (you can find it here)
  • Dataset ID (check the docs)

item_collection

• Calls api.apify.com/v2/datasets/{datasetId}/items (docs)
• Properties:
  • Apify Personal API token (you can find it here)
  • Dataset ID (check the docs)
• Limitations:
  • The stream uses a dynamic schema (all the data are stored under the "data" key), so it should support all the Apify Datasets (produced by whatever Actor).

item_collection_website_content_crawler

• Calls the same endpoint and uses the same properties as the item_collection stream.
• Limitations:
  • The stream uses a static schema which corresponds to the datasets produced by Website Content Crawler Actor. So only datasets produced by this Actor are supported.

Changelog

Version	Date	Pull Request	Subject
2.1.0	2023-10-13	31333	Add stream for arbitrary datasets
2.0.0	2023-09-18	30428	Fix broken stream, manifest refactor
1.0.0	2023-08-25	29859	Migrate to lowcode
0.2.0	2022-06-20	28290	Make connector work with platform changes not syncing empty stream schemas.
0.1.11	2022-04-27	12397	No changes. Used connector to test publish workflow changes.
0.1.9	2022-04-05	PR#11712	No changes from 0.1.4. Used connector to test publish workflow changes.
0.1.4	2021-12-23	PR#8434	Update fields in source-connectors specifications
0.1.2	2021-11-08	PR#7499	Remove base-python dependencies
0.1.0	2021-07-29	PR#5069	Initial version of the connector