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What is an Actor?
What is an Actor?

An Apify Actor is a program that can carry out any task in a web browser

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Written by Hany Duong
Updated over a year ago

Actors are Apify's unique robots. Actors run on the Apify platform and can automate tasks such as sending an email, updating spreadsheets, or extracting data from websites. If you can do it manually in a browser, there's a good chance an Apify Actor can do it for you.

Read more about Actors or browse ready-made Actors on Apify Store.

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