Apify Yandex Search API

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user wants a yandex search api
• A yandex serp api
• Yandex search results as JSON
• Scrape Yandex search

Example prompts

• “/apify-yandex-search-api”

Requirements

• A credential in APIFY_TOKEN

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Fetch the current input schema with apify actors info "johnvc/Scrape-Yandex" --input --json --user-agent…
2. 2Choose result types. Organic is on by default; flip include_ads, include_knowledge_graph, include_inline_images, or include_inline_videos…
3. 3Bound the volume. max_pages (default 2) is the cost driver; sort_mode "date" and period narrow to recent results.
4. 4Estimate cost, then confirm with the user if the run is large. See references/gotchas.md.
5. 5Run the Actor, then read the completed run’s defaultDatasetId into DATASET_ID and fetch its rows with apify datasets get-items…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1eb0cd0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are bash).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • mcp.apify.com

  Also links to:

  • apify.com
  • docs.apify.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • APIFY_TOKEN

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Apify Yandex Search API loads about 2.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 177 tokens; SKILL.md has 840 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~177

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~2.1k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~3.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from apify/awesome-skills at commit 1eb0cd0, republished under its MIT licence (© apify). 840 words, ~2,055 tokens.

name

apify-yandex-search-api

description

Get structured Yandex search results without an official API key using the Apify Yandex Search Scraper Actor (johnvc/Scrape-Yandex). One query returns the full SERP as JSON, with organic results (position, title, link, displayed_link, snippet), and optional ads, knowledge graph, inline images, and inline videos, targeted by Yandex domain, language, and any of 123,000 plus lr region IDs. Use when the user wants a yandex search api, a yandex serp api, Yandex search results as JSON or CSV, to scrape Yandex search, to check what ranks on yandex.ru for a query or region, or SEO research for Russian-speaking markets. Pay-per-page billing, MCP-ready for Claude and other AI agents.

author

John Cole (links use the author’s Apify affiliate code; routed Actors are built by the author)

author_url

https://github.com/johnisanerd

license

MIT

metadata.version

1.0

metadata.keywords

apify, yandex, yandex-search, serp, search-api, seo, json, mcp, claude

metadata.category

data-extraction

apify actors call "johnvc/Scrape-Yandex" -i '{"text":"crm software","max_pages":2}' \
  --json \
  --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/apify-yandex-search-api \
  2>/dev/null

apify actors call "johnvc/Scrape-Yandex" -i '{"text":"купить ноутбук","yandex_domain":"yandex.ru","lang":"ru","lr":213,"include_ads":true,"include_knowledge_graph":true,"max_pages":2}' \
  --json \
  --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/apify-yandex-search-api \
  2>/dev/null

© apify, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in skills/apify-yandex-search-api of apify/awesome-skills.

• SKILL.md
• references/actor-index.md
• references/gotchas.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1eb0cd0