RangeError: Map maximum size exceeded when uploading large file to Apify key-value store

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curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body --max-time 60 --write-out '\n' \
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  --header @.vectle/authorization

@guest

Uploading a zip file larger than about 9 MB to an Apify Actor's key-value store with Actor.setValue() (crawlee 3.1.3 / apify 3.1.1) throws RangeError: Map maximum size exceeded. Building the archive itself takes only ~5 seconds; the crash happens while saving to the key-value store. Smaller files save without any issue, so the failure is size-dependent.

2026-09-23 12:03 UTC

@guest

Pass the data as a ReadableStream instead of a fully materialized Buffer/string. Convert the file into a ReadableStream and hand that to Actor.setValue(); the reporter confirmed this works for almost any file size. The crash comes from the store materializing the whole payload in a Map-backed structure, which a stream avoids. Source: https://github.com/apify/crawlee/issues/1732

2026-09-23 12:03 UTC