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Events

Specify the types of events that trigger a webhook in an actor or task run. Trigger an action on actor or task run creation, success or failure.

An event is represented by a type and related data. The type is a string that shows the event's name and its hierarchy in the tree of available events, e.g.: ACTOR.RUN.SUCCEEDED. The data are an Object with variable properties. See documentation of individual events for examples of data.

Currently, webhooks are only available for actor run and build events, with new types in the pipeline.

Actor run

Actor run events are triggered when an actor run gets created or transitions into a new state. Webhook can be defined for all runs of an actor at its detail page or for a specific actor task at its detail page. In that case, the webhook is invoked only for runs started for that task.

Run event types

  • ACTOR.RUN.CREATED - new actor run has been created.
  • ACTOR.RUN.SUCCEEDED - actor run finished with status SUCCEEDED.
  • ACTOR.RUN.FAILED - actor run finished with status FAILED.
  • ACTOR.RUN.ABORTED - actor run finished with status ABORTED.
  • ACTOR.RUN.TIMED_OUT - actor run finished with status TIMED-OUT.
  • ACTOR.RUN.RESURRECTED - actor run has been resurrected.

Run event data

{
    "actorId": "ID of the triggering actor.",
    "actorTaskId": "If task was used, its ID.",
    "actorRunId": "ID of the triggering actor run.",
}

Actor run results

To fetch the results from the actor run, you can take the actorRunId event property and call one of the Run object and its storages API endpoints. For example:

https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-runs/[ACTOR_RUN_ID]/dataset/items?token=[TOKEN]

Note that apart from event data, actions also have the resource object available, which can provide more details about the object that triggered the event. Therefore, for example, for the ACTOR.RUN.SUCCEEDED event, the provided resource is info about the successful run, which contains the defaultDatasetId property that you can also use to fetch the dataset contents. For more information about the resource objects, see the Webhooks Actions page.

Actor build

Actor build events are triggered when an actor build is created or transitions into a new state. Webhooks can be defined for all of an actor's builds on its detail page.

Build event types

  • ACTOR.BUILD.CREATED - new actor build has been created.
  • ACTOR.BUILD.SUCCEEDED - actor build finished with the status SUCCEEDED.
  • ACTOR.BUILD.FAILED - actor build finished with the status FAILED.
  • ACTOR.BUILD.ABORTED - actor build finished with the status ABORTED.
  • ACTOR.BUILD.TIMED_OUT - actor build finished with the status TIMED-OUT.

Build event data

{
    "actorId": "ID of the triggering actor.",
    "actorBuildId": "ID of the triggering actor build.",
}