Monolith Actor on Apify

This Actor wraps Monolith to crawl a web page URL and bundle the entire content in a single HTML file, without installing and running the tool locally.

What are Actors?

Actors are serverless microservices running on the Apify Platform. They are based on the Actor SDK and can be found in the Apify Store. Learn more about Actors in the Apify Whitepaper.

Usage

Apify Console

1. Go to the Apify Actor page
2. Click "Run"
3. In the input form, fill in URL(s) to crawl and bundle
4. The Actor will run and :
   • save the bundled HTML files in the run's default key-value store
   • save the links to the KVS with original URL and monolith process exit status to the dataset

Apify CLI

apify call snshn/monolith --input='{
  "urls": ["https://news.ycombinator.com/"]
}'

Using Apify API

curl --request POST \
  --url "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/snshn~monolith/run" \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN' \
  --data '{
  "urls": ["https://news.ycombinator.com/"],
  }
}'

Input Parameters

The Actor accepts a JSON schema with the following structure:

Example Input

{
  "urls": ["https://news.ycombinator.com/"],
}

Output

The Actor provides three types of outputs:

Dataset Record

Example Dataset Item (JSON)

{
    "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/",
    "kvsUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/JRFLHRy9DOtdKGpdm/records/https___news.ycombinator.com_",
    "status": "0"
}

Performance & Resources

• Memory Requirements:
  • Minimum: 4168 MB RAM
• Processing Time:
  • 30s per complex page like bbc.co.uk

For more help, check the Monolith Project documentation or raise an issue in the Actor page detail on Apify.