apify-actor-development
apifyBuild, test, and ship reliable Apify Actors.
actor development
What it does
Develops, debugs, and deploys Apify Actors for web scraping, automation, and data processing.
When to use it
Use when creating new Actors, modifying existing ones, or troubleshooting Actor code.
How to use it
Give it an Actor development goal in a project; it creates or modifies the Actor, configures schemas, writes documentation, tests locally, and deploys it.
What you provide
- An existing project
Uses
Access · 3
This skill
Apify
Deploys Actors to Apify
Apify Store
Reviews reference Actors
~/.apify
Saves Apify credentials
What you need · 3
The Apify CLI must be installed and available; the skill requires checking it with apify --help before Actor development.
The Apify MCP server is optional and enables the documented Apify documentation tools.
The Playwright MCP server is optional and enables browser-based debugging of Actors that interact with the web.
About this skill
- Visibility
- Public
- Repository
- apify/agent-skills
- Created
- Oct 8, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 8, 2026
- Files
- 9