How to change an Apify actor parameter via API - google-apps-script

Question

I want to call an Apify actor and specify a parameter value via a call to the Apify API.
The actor is the Google Search Results Scraper located here.
Here is where the docs say to use queries as the object property name in the API call payload.
The following table shows specification of the actor INPUT fields as defined by its input schema. These fields can be [...] provided in a JSON object when running the actor using the API. Read more in docs.
...
Search queries or URLs
Google Search queries (e.g. food in NYC) and/or full URLs (e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=food+NYC).
Enter one item per line.
Optional
Type: String
JSON example
"queries": "Hotels in NYC
Restaurants in NYC
https://www.google.com/search?q=restaurants+in+NYC"
After I run my Google Apps Script code, I expect to see a change in the searchQueries.term parameter to be the following.
Apify — what I expect to see
"searchQuery": {
"term": "Banks in Phoenix", // what I am trying to change to by API call
// [...]
},
But what I actually get is the same parameter value as existed the last time I ran the actor manually. As follows.
Apify — what I actually see
"searchQuery": {
"term": "CPA firms in Newark", // remaining from last time I ran the actor manually
// [...]
},
Here is the code I'm running from Google Apps Script.
Code.gs
const runSearch = () => {
const apiEndpoint= `https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-tasks/<MY-TASK-NAME>/run-sync?token=<MY-TOKEN>`
const formData = {
method: 'post',
queries: 'Banks in Phoenix',
};
const options = {
body: formData,
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
};
UrlFetchApp.fetch(apiEndpoint, options,);
}
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You are missing the payload property in the request object.
Change:
queries: 'Banks in Phoenix',
to:
payload: {
queries: 'Banks in Phoenix',
}
Code.gs
const runSearch = () => {
const apiEndpoint= `https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-tasks/<MY-TASK-NAME>/run-sync?token=<MY-TOKEN>`
const formData = {
method: 'post',
payload: {
queries: 'Banks in Phoenix',
},
};
const options = {
body: formData,
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
};
UrlFetchApp.fetch(apiEndpoint, options,);
}