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Automate Apify

Keep track of your Apify actors without watching the console: failed and timed-out runs, finished scrapes and how much of your monthly usage is gone. Apify calls ClickRuntime the moment a run changes state, so the alert or result follows straight away. Describe it to your AI assistant, check what it will do, and it keeps running.

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Try asking

Create a ClickRuntime automation: give me a webhook link for Apify. When any actor run fails or times out, post the actor name and a link to the run to #scrapers in Slack.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in Apify

A heads-up when a scraper breaks, a result note when a run succeeds, and a weekly look at spend and failures. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
The moment it happens

Get a Slack alert when a scraper fails

When any actor run fails or times out, you get its name and a link to the run in Slack.

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The moment it happens

Get the results when a scrape finishes

Each successful run sends you how many items it collected and a link to the dataset.

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Weekly

Get a weekly Apify usage and failures report

Every Monday you see this month's usage so far and the runs that failed last week.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Apify, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Apify automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Apify should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Every 30 minutes, check my Apify actor runs and alert me if a run failed, timed out, or returned fewer than half the usual number of dataset items.

When my Apify Google Maps scraper finishes, add every new business with a website and phone number to my Google Sheets lead list, skipping ones already there.

Each morning, take the latest Apify dataset of competitor reviews, have AI tag each by complaint type, add them to Airtable and send a summary of the top complaints to Slack.

Beyond chat

Have Apify work when you're not in the chat

Connecting Apify to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect Apify

You connect Apify with a personal API token from your Apify console. It acts with your account's access to actors, runs and datasets.

Apify

Data / Web scraping & automation

  1. Sign in to the Apify console and open Settings, then API & Integrations.
  2. Under Personal API tokens, copy a token or create a new one. Tokens start with apify_api_.
  3. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the token as a secret. ClickRuntime sends it in the Authorization header rather than the ?token= parameter.

Good to know

Apify limits that affect automations

  • Apify sends run events by webhook, including succeeded, failed and timed out, so run alerts arrive as they happen rather than on a schedule.
  • If Apify answers with a rate-limit-exceeded error, the automation waits and retries with growing delays.
  • The free plan includes monthly usage credit, which actor runs draw down.

FAQ

Questions about automating Apify

What can ClickRuntime see in my Apify account?
What your personal API token allows: your actors, their runs and statuses, the datasets they produce and your usage figures.
How does it know a run failed?
You add a ClickRuntime link as a webhook in Apify for the run events you care about, such as failed or timed out. Apify calls it when the run ends, and the alert goes out right away.
Can it send me the scraped data?
It can tell you how many items a run produced and link to the dataset. Tell your AI assistant if you want something else done with the results.
Do these automations need AI?
No. Run alerts, result emails and the weekly report run without it. If you add a summary of the results, that uses the AI included with every ClickRuntime plan, with no AI key of your own needed.
Is this a Apify connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Apify data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Apify while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Apify event.

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