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title: "Apify / Read a run's dataset items"
description: "Apify tool apify-dataset-items on looot: input fields, $0.0001 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Reads the items a finished Apify actor run wrote to its dataset. Call it after apify-actor-run or apify-meta-ads-library-search and send dataset_id (the run's defaultDatasetId); limit, offset, fields and omit shape the output.

- **Tool id:** `apify-dataset-items`
- **Provider:** [Apify](/providers/apify)
- **Job:** [Fetch the results of a scrape job](/reference/jobs/web-scrape-job-results) (`web.scrape.job.results`)
- **Price:** $0.0001 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `clean` | boolean | no | true (default) strips empty/hidden fields from each item. Example: true |
| `fields` | string | no | Comma-separated field allow-list. Example: "title,url" |
| `limit` | integer | no | Items per page. Example: 10 |
| `offset` | integer | no | Items to skip. Example: 0 |
| `omit` | string | no | Comma-separated fields to leave out. Example: "rawHtml" |
| `dataset_id` | string | yes | defaultDatasetId from an apify-actor-run (or apify-meta-ads-library-search) result -- never guess or enumerate one. |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, checked against 1 real answer:

```txt
{ message }[]
```

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

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```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"apify-dataset-items","input":{"dataset_id":"<dataset_id>","omit":"rawHtml","clean":true,"limit":10,"fields":"title,url","offset":0},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "apify-dataset-items",
    input: {
      dataset_id: "<dataset_id>",
      omit: "rawHtml",
      clean: true,
      limit: 10,
      fields: "title,url",
      offset: 0,
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "apify-dataset-items",
        "input": {
            "dataset_id": "<dataset_id>",
            "omit": "rawHtml",
            "clean": True,
            "limit": 10,
            "fields": "title,url",
            "offset": 0,
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

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To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:web.scrape.job.results` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/web-scrape-job-results).