Draft example of helper function to create RequestList

Author: Pijukatel

src/apify/_actor.py

@@ -6,14 +6,15 @@
 from datetime import timedelta
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Callable, TypeVar, cast
 
+from crawlee.storages import RequestList
 from lazy_object_proxy import Proxy
 from pydantic import AliasChoices
 from typing_extensions import Self
 
 from apify_client import ApifyClientAsync
 from apify_shared.consts import ActorEnvVars, ActorExitCodes, ApifyEnvVars
 from apify_shared.utils import ignore_docs, maybe_extract_enum_member_value
-from crawlee import service_container
+from crawlee import service_container, Request
 from crawlee.events._types import Event, EventPersistStateData
 
 from apify._configuration import Configuration
@@ -974,6 +975,20 @@ async def create_proxy_configuration(
 
         return proxy_configuration
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def create_request_list(
+        *,
+        actor_start_urls_input: dict
+    ) ->RequestList:
+        return RequestList(requests=[
+            Request.from_url(
+                method=request_input.get("method"),
+                url=request_input.get("url"),
+                payload=request_input.get("payload", "").encode("utf-8"),
+                headers=request_input.get("headers", {}),
+                user_data=request_input.get("userData", {}),
+            ) for request_input in actor_start_urls_input])
+
 
 Actor = cast(_ActorType, Proxy(_ActorType))
 """The entry point of the SDK, through which all the Actor operations should be done."""