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Hide request queue

Is it possible to hide the Crawlee request queue to Apify users?

Bug in changing pricings

Hey I was trying to change pricing of one my actor which uses ppe but at the reasoning stage it showed wrong summary and on review stage when I confirmed it again failed with reason Error: Operation failed! (You cannot modify pricing for an Actor that will be effective immediately. You need to set "startedAt" to at least 2 weeks from now.) But It don't allow us to specify startedAt and at the review stage start Date is set as Immediately...
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⚠️ Apify PPE Pricing Model Chaos

Purpose of this post: This post is not a feature request or complaint. Its purpose is to seek clarity from the Apify team and invite input from the developer community regarding the confusion around the PPE (Pay Per Event) billing model. I’d like Apify to clearly state what’s allowed and what’s not allowed when it comes to PPE billing practices, so that developers can align their actors accordingly and avoid policy violations....

Apify Store Search Cashing Issues

Hi there, i noticed that there seems to be some sort of weird cashing issue when searching in the Apify Store both console and apify.com/store. The example shown here is of one of our actors displaying the 'Under Maintenance' label, which was actually the case for a short period yesterday. However, this 'Under Maintenance' flag was removed yesterday evening. To replicate: When i search for "wellfound" it does show our actor under maintenance. When i seach for "welfound" (with a missing l) it correctly shows the actor out of maintenance. I have checked this with multiple browsers (Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Mobile Safari and Mobile Chrome) and with different IP addresses, and the same behaviour is observed across all variations. It seems to cache certain search results. ...
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Token Compromised, Trying to create Secure Read-Only Token

My token was compromised and someone started using my account to do spam crawling of random social media accounts. I am trying to create a new secured token that only has read permissions for https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apify~cheerio-scraper/runs/last/dataset/items but I can't figure out what combination of permissions I'm supposed to apply for the token to work, as I keep getting 403 or 401. I also cannot figure out how to disable/delete the malicious actors/crawls or disable them because they are monetized?...

Views are not showing.

Some scrapers show different views in their output. In my case I don't see these view tabs. I made a view called "Overview" and expected an "All fields" tab to appear when running my own actor, as the dataset contains more fields than that. Even when adding multiple views, those tabs don't appear. Any idea why that would be? This is what my dataset_schema.json looks like: ```json {...
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[python-sdk] i can run my actor right, but my users use it with error

Everything was working fine for a long time, but in the last 3 hours, some errors have started appearing. It runs correctly when I test it myself, but when my users try it, I tested with a free account and saw the issues. log------------------------------------------------------ 2025-10-29T17:19:13.516Z File "/usr/src/app/src/main.py", line 64, in main 2025-10-29T17:19:13.517Z async with Actor: 2025-10-29T17:19:13.518Z File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/apify/_actor.py", line 198, in aenter...

Bug with PPE pricing update: Error: Operation failed! (You cannot modify pricing for an Actor that w

Error: Operation failed! (You cannot modify pricing for an Actor that will be effective immediately. You need to set "startedAt" to at least 2 weeks from now.)

i face problem when listen abort event [python sdk]

I followed the official documentation's template code to implement an Apify Actor, built and deployed it on the Apify platform. When I run the Actor and click Abort (graceful abort), the ABORTING event handler handler_foo does not log anything — Actor.log.info(...) inside it never appears. I have no way to confirm whether the handler is actually being triggered, and I need to perform custom actions when the user aborts the run. Questions: ...

My actors suddenly throw errors according to broken head in request queue

Hello together! I have a strange problem, my different actors working fine for months but suddenly they throwing errors like this: ``` [apify.scrapy._async_thread] ERROR Coroutine execution raised an exception. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/apify/scrapy/_async_thread.py", line 62, in run_coro...
Solution:
If somebody reads this post later on, this was caused by bugs in crawlee und apify which fixed in the actual versions:
apify==3.0.3
crawlee==1.0.4
apify==3.0.3
crawlee==1.0.4
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The new run view looks great, I have a small comment about navigation

The actor name in the run view (e.g https://console.apify.com/view/runs/123456789ABCDE) used to be clickable and would take to the actor's console page, but now it's not. Was this intentional? Having it clickable helps with easier navigation 🙏
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Duplicate mailing issue

When some user open a issue we get a mail from apify regarding it. But if we reply the same from email itself we receive a mail again with same text as what we have replied. For example, User - Hello Me - Hii (replying through mail, not from apify's dashboard) ...

How to add Overview Example in Readme

How can I put an overview example of my actor like they do here https://apify.com/streamers/youtube-scraper
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Recover the data I paid for, my $600 is gone

On October 14th, I paid $600 to run Actor. I was at the Business level at the time. My subscription expired on the 15th. Today, the 23rd, I logged in again and discovered my Actor data had been cleared. I haven't downloaded it yet! Any help! I need that data!
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website-content-crawler unable to download PDF properly

i am using website-content-crawler actor for scraping files, i was unable to download the for the last 2 days due AWS EC2 issue, today it is downloading files but they are still broken. can someone help sort the issue kindly i need to sort it urgently...

Stay strong oncallers!

I'm opening this issue just to cheer on and support all the Apify developers who are on call, working to fix everything after the AWS outage. Stay strong! 💪...

Actor Time out error

I've been getting this error recently, does anyone know what to do about it?
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Active running jobs that block RAM Limit but are not found in Runs overview

I tried to run a saved task with my api, but the task was getting stuck. When checking on the website, I saw one task running for a long time and nothing happening. I aborted it and tried to run a new 1024 mb ram task, but it says my limit of 8gb was reached. When I hover over the limit I can see 7 tasks that were started, but they are not visible in my Runs overview. I am concerned I am being charged for them and they keep me from running new tasks. Under Actors it says Total runs 15, but when I check the runs I can only see 8...
Solution:
Hi @kai.vg- thanks for sharing this issue. I think it's related to the AWS outages we have been experiencing today. Services are starting to come back online now, so AWS is clearing their backlog and that should allow us to resume normal functioning soon. Please review your account later on today and report back if you're still encountering the same issue....

user has an issue running the actor

I just got a comment that my actor is not working (it works for me) and the user just got this error message: 2025-10-17T08:56:43.331Z ACTOR: Pulling container image of build 2SzkfERo75DpWbht7 from registry. 2025-10-17T08:56:44.972Z ACTOR: Creating container. 2025-10-17T08:56:45.123Z ACTOR: Starting container. 2025-10-17T08:56:45.392Z Will run command: xvfb-run -a -s "-ac -screen 0 1920x1080x24+32 -nolisten tcp" /bin/sh -c npm start --silent 2025-10-17T08:56:48.321Z [ERROR] Main execution error: An error occurred while processing the request This doen't seem like an actor issue, it occurs before the actor starts. ...
Solution:
it was a error on my code that prevented more than 1000 urls and also for prod user I just showed a generic error message. So problem solved.