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antigravity-skills-reference/skills/apify-actor-development/references/actor-json.md
Ahmed Rehan 2f55f046b9 feat: add 12 official Apify agent-skills for web scraping & data extraction (#165)
* feat: add 12 official Apify skills for web scraping and data extraction

Add the complete Apify agent-skills collection as official vendor skills,
bringing the total skill count from 954 to 966.

New skills:
- apify-actor-development: Develop, debug, and deploy Apify Actors
- apify-actorization: Convert existing projects into Apify Actors
- apify-audience-analysis: Audience demographics across social platforms
- apify-brand-reputation-monitoring: Track reviews, ratings, and sentiment
- apify-competitor-intelligence: Analyze competitor strategies and pricing
- apify-content-analytics: Track engagement metrics and campaign ROI
- apify-ecommerce: E-commerce data scraping for pricing intelligence
- apify-influencer-discovery: Find and evaluate influencers
- apify-lead-generation: B2B/B2C lead generation from multiple platforms
- apify-market-research: Market conditions and geographic opportunities
- apify-trend-analysis: Discover emerging trends across platforms
- apify-ultimate-scraper: Universal AI-powered web scraper

Existing skill fixes:
- design-orchestration: Add missing description, fix markdown list spacing
- multi-agent-brainstorming: Add missing description, fix markdown list spacing

Registry and documentation updates:
- Update skill count to 966+ across README.md, README.vi.md
- Add Apify to official sources in SOURCES.md and all README variants
- Register new skills in catalog.json, skills_index.json, bundles.json, aliases.json
- Update CATALOG.md category counts (data-ai: 152, infrastructure: 95)

Validation script improvements:
- Raise description length limit from 200 to 1024 characters
- Add empty description validation check
- Apply PEP 8 formatting (line length, spacing, trailing whitespace)

* refactor: truncate skill descriptions in SKILL.md files and revert  description length validation to 200 characters.

* feat: Add `apify-ultimate-scraper` to data-ai and move `apify-lead-generation` from business to general categories.
2026-03-01 10:02:50 +01:00

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Actor Configuration (actor.json)

The .actor/actor.json file contains the Actor's configuration including metadata, schema references, and platform settings.

Structure

{
    "actorSpecification": 1,
    "name": "project-name",
    "title": "Project Title",
    "description": "Actor description",
    "version": "0.0",
    "meta": {
        "templateId": "template-id",
        "generatedBy": "<FILL-IN-TOOL-AND-MODEL>"
    },
    "input": "./input_schema.json",
    "output": "./output_schema.json",
    "storages": {
        "dataset": "./dataset_schema.json"
    },
    "dockerfile": "../Dockerfile"
}

Example

{
    "actorSpecification": 1,
    "name": "project-cheerio-crawler-javascript",
    "title": "Project Cheerio Crawler Javascript",
    "description": "Crawlee and Cheerio project in javascript.",
    "version": "0.0",
    "meta": {
        "templateId": "js-crawlee-cheerio",
        "generatedBy": "Claude Code with Claude Sonnet 4.5"
    },
    "input": "./input_schema.json",
    "output": "./output_schema.json",
    "storages": {
        "dataset": "./dataset_schema.json"
    },
    "dockerfile": "../Dockerfile"
}

Properties

  • actorSpecification (integer, required) - Version of actor specification (currently 1)
  • name (string, required) - Actor identifier (lowercase, hyphens allowed)
  • title (string, required) - Human-readable title displayed in UI
  • description (string, optional) - Actor description for marketplace
  • version (string, required) - Semantic version number
  • meta (object, optional) - Metadata about actor generation
    • templateId (string) - ID of template used to create the actor
    • generatedBy (string) - Tool and model name that generated/modified the actor (e.g., "Claude Code with Claude Sonnet 4.5")
  • input (string, optional) - Path to input schema file
  • output (string, optional) - Path to output schema file
  • storages (object, optional) - Storage schema references
    • dataset (string) - Path to dataset schema file
    • keyValueStore (string) - Path to key-value store schema file
  • dockerfile (string, optional) - Path to Dockerfile

Important: Always fill in the generatedBy property with the tool and model you're currently using (e.g., "Claude Code with Claude Sonnet 4.5") to help Apify improve documentation.