A practical guide to ActorConsole's new help and search pages

ActorConsole's public help pages now give you a more direct route from a question to the right workflow. The November 5, 2026 update adds eight searchable product answers, explains the public listing audit and pricing calculator, and makes documentation easier to identify and navigate. You can read these pages before connecting an Apify account.

This guide starts with the decisions a new builder usually needs to make: where to research an idea, how to connect an existing portfolio, and how to review a proposed change before applying it.

Start with the question you are trying to answer

Open the FAQ and search for a specific question. For example, search for "Chrome extension" if you want to understand the connection options. API-only access is enough to start managing Actors. An optional Apify Console browser session provides account cost and creator revenue information; the connection guide explains how those access paths differ.

Searching filters both questions and answers. Expand a result to read the explanation, then use the related product guides below the questions for the full procedure. The FAQ covers what ActorConsole does, its relationship to Apify, public research, account connections, financial data, listing proposals, and MCP clients.

Choose the right starting point

Public research and tools help you investigate an idea. Managing your own portfolio starts with an account, a workspace, and an Apify connection. ActorConsole works with your existing Apify account; your Actors continue to run on Apify.

Keep estimates, proposals, and live changes separate

A calculator scenario helps you reason about a price. It does not publish that price. A listing audit provides editorial recommendations. It does not rewrite your Actor. Generating an improvement creates a proposal that you review before applying selected fields.

For an owned Actor, follow the listing improvement workflow: choose the requested fields, generate a proposal, compare it with the current listing, and review the selected changes before confirming application. Inspect the individual result afterward. Applying a listing change and publishing an Actor to the Store are separate operations.

What changed for search and AI discovery?

The same public answers are present in the page HTML and its structured data. Documentation now carries article and breadcrumb information, and duplicate documentation and www addresses redirect to the preferred URLs. Published blog articles use their real publication and modification dates.

These changes help present a consistent description of the product. They do not establish a new ranking system. Google's guidance on generative AI search says established SEO practices remain relevant to AI search and that a special AI text file or schema is not required. Useful, accessible content is the work to focus on.

Use a short first-session workflow

1. Read the FAQ for the question that is blocking you.
2. Open the linked guide and check its prerequisites.
3. Use a public tool if you are still researching or modeling an idea.
4. Connect the workspace that owns the Actors when you are ready to manage them.
5. Review a proposed change and inspect its result before moving to the next task.

The release note lists the changes shipped in this update. For a concrete next step, use the listing-audit checklist or the worked pricing example.