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* 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.
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Actor Standby Mode Reference
JavaScript and TypeScript
- NEVER disable standby mode (
usesStandbyMode: false) in.actor/actor.jsonwithout explicit permission - Actor Standby mode solves this problem by letting you have the Actor ready in the background, waiting for the incoming HTTP requests. In a sense, the Actor behaves like a real-time web server or standard API server instead of running the logic once to process everything in batch. Always keepusesStandbyMode: trueunless there is a specific documented reason to disable it - ALWAYS implement readiness probe handler for standby Actors - Handle the
x-apify-container-server-readiness-probeheader at GET / endpoint to ensure proper Actor lifecycle management
You can recognize a standby Actor by checking the usesStandbyMode property in .actor/actor.json. Only implement the readiness probe if this property is set to true.
Readiness Probe Implementation Example
// Apify standby readiness probe at root path
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' });
if (req.headers['x-apify-container-server-readiness-probe']) {
res.end('Readiness probe OK\n');
} else {
res.end('Actor is ready\n');
}
});
Key points:
- Detect the
x-apify-container-server-readiness-probeheader in incoming requests - Respond with HTTP 200 status code for both readiness probe and normal requests
- This enables proper Actor lifecycle management in standby mode
Python
- NEVER disable standby mode (
usesStandbyMode: false) in.actor/actor.jsonwithout explicit permission - Actor Standby mode solves this problem by letting you have the Actor ready in the background, waiting for the incoming HTTP requests. In a sense, the Actor behaves like a real-time web server or standard API server instead of running the logic once to process everything in batch. Always keepusesStandbyMode: trueunless there is a specific documented reason to disable it - ALWAYS implement readiness probe handler for standby Actors - Handle the
x-apify-container-server-readiness-probeheader at GET / endpoint to ensure proper Actor lifecycle management
You can recognize a standby Actor by checking the usesStandbyMode property in .actor/actor.json. Only implement the readiness probe if this property is set to true.
Readiness Probe Implementation Example
# Apify standby readiness probe
from http.server import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
class GetHandler(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_GET(self):
# Handle Apify standby readiness probe
if 'x-apify-container-server-readiness-probe' in self.headers:
self.send_response(200)
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write(b'Readiness probe OK')
return
self.send_response(200)
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write(b'Actor is ready')
Key points:
- Detect the
x-apify-container-server-readiness-probeheader in incoming requests - Respond with HTTP 200 status code for both readiness probe and normal requests
- This enables proper Actor lifecycle management in standby mode