You can access the Rat King programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

$echo '{
<  "startUrls": [
<    {
<      "url": "https://apify.com"
<    }
<  ]
<}' |
<apify call splendid_rat/rat-king --silent --output-dataset

Rat King API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Rat King locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

Other API clients include:

Rat King API in Python

Rat King API in JavaScript

Rat King OpenAPI definition

Rat King API

Live view

immortal_chocolate/live-view

Live view example

Daniel Wébr

Live View

vratous/live-view

Vratislav Bartonicek

Long Urls Test

periwinkle_ballet/long-urls-test

Nishad Manerikar

Long runnning actor

honzakirchner43/long-runnning-actor

Jan Kirchner

Long Name Testing Test

vratous/long-name-testing-test

Vratislav Bartonicek

STAND BY! That's a RAT!

splendid_rat/stand-by-that-s-a-rat

haha

Roman Rostar

Actor with output schema and very long name just to test it

immortal_chocolate/actor-with-output-schema-and-very-long-name-just-to-test-it

Daniel Wébr

Rental actor with an unnecessarily stupidly long name how silly

jkuzz/rental-actor-with-an-unnecessarily-stupidly-long-name-how-silly

Why is this actor's name so long? Who thought this was a good idea. Now we have to test all kinds of overflow and elipsis behaviours just that this silly person can have their long name on their stupid actor. Honestly, some users should be banned just for the names they come up with. And this descri