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Apify & Crawlee•2y ago•
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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 },
});


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!
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