# Apify Actor Run Sync

> Apify Actor Run Sync is a paid API for AI agents from api.apify.com, paid per call via x402, $1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Synchronously runs an Apify Actor (scraper, crawler, or automation tool) and returns the result when the run completes

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/:actorId/run-sync
- Price: $1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-apify-com-efee3e6a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_JAUjtHwbMDGo8VDupioaC

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability api-apify-com-efee3e6a -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Use the Apify web-scraper actor to extract all product names and prices from https://books.toscrape.com and return the structured results — wait for the run to finish before giving me the data.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to synchronously run any of thousands of pre-built Apify Actors (scrapers, crawlers, automation tools) and want the result returned in a single request without polling. Ideal for one-off data extraction tasks from websites, social media, e-commerce platforms, or any structured web source where a ready-made Actor already exists in the Apify Store.

## Known failure modes

- Actor not found — invalid actorId returns 404
- Run timeout — actor exceeds allowed execution time and returns timeout error
- Invalid input — actor-specific input schema validation failure returns 400
- Insufficient memory — actor exceeds memory quota and run fails
- Actor build not found — specified build version does not exist
- Authentication error — missing or invalid API token returns 401

## How this service works

Apify Store is the largest marketplace of tools for AI agents. Extract data from any website and automate your workflows with thousands of scrapers, crawlers, and automation tools called Actors.

## Output

Returns the output of the completed Actor run, including scraped or processed data (e.g. JSON dataset items, key-value store records), run metadata such as status and timing, and any results generated by the specific Actor that was executed.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "description": "Actor input JSON. Each Actor on Apify Store defines its own input schema. Browse and inspect schemas at https://apify.com/store (Actor detail pages can be rendered in markdown by appending .md to their URL), or call the Apify API to fetch the schema for a specific Actor.",
     "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-apify-com-efee3e6a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.apify.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.apify.com/llms.txt)