Actor (Apify)
An Apify Actor is a cloud-hosted, serverless scraping or automation program.
Actors are stored on Apify's infrastructure and run on demand without requiring any local setup. The Apify store hosts 39,000+ pre-built Actors covering every major website and data source.
Related Terms
Web Scraping
Web scraping is the automated extraction of structured data from websites.
Proxy Rotation
Proxy rotation is the practice of cycling through multiple IP addresses when making scraping requests, so the target server sees different IPs instead of repeated requests from the same source.
Compute Units (Apify)
Compute Units (CUs) are Apify's billing metric for platform usage.