# Email to Task & Action Item Extractor (`westerly_palisade/email-to-task-by-dravara`) Actor

Turn one email, message, conversation, or support ticket into source-backed action items, open questions, commitments, risks, and a reply draft. Unknown owners and deadlines stay blank; it never sends.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/westerly\_palisade/email-to-task-by-dravara.md
- **Developed by:** [Dravara LLC](https://apify.com/westerly_palisade) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.11 / tasks extracted

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Email to Task & Action Item Extractor

Turn one email, message, conversation, or support ticket into source-backed action items, open questions, commitments, risks, and a reply draft. Unknown owners and deadlines stay blank; it never sends.

### Capabilities and limits

Paste one bounded email, conversation, message, or support ticket. EmailToTask returns a concise summary, source-backed action items, unanswered questions, commitments, risks, and a reply draft. Unknown owners and deadlines remain blank instead of being guessed. It does not send a reply, create a ticket, contact an owner, or treat quoted instructions as commands. Human review is required before using the result. Model-backed requests use Dravara's configured OpenAI Responses API model with store set to false; applicable provider abuse-monitoring retention and Poe conversation retention may still apply. A validated result receives the approved Dravara creator charge only when it contains at least one source-backed action item. A valid no-action result and a failed result do not receive the result charge. Correct validation errors before starting a new message. After a retryable failure, start one new message. If Poe's charge state is unclear, check its billing activity before retrying. Dravara keeps the exact paid result for replay for 365 days. After artifact deletion and final settlement, eligible operational identifiers are minimized; pseudonymous result-integrity, accounting, and settlement records remain under a separate recordkeeping period. The release verifies the approved Dravara creator charge and current Poe-displayed total in Rates before publication. Poe determines its separate platform component and may change the displayed total.

One run writes at most one result item. The Actor does not use Standby mode and does not perform actions outside the documented task.

Successful result event: `tasks-extracted` at $0.11.

Cost protection: model-backed requests accept at most 16 KiB of combined UTF-8 prompt and controls. Oversize requests do not call the model. See the live Pricing tab for current charges.

# Actor input Schema

## `source_text` (type: `string`):

Plain source text to extract into tasks, 1 to 40,000 characters.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "source_text": "Hi Morgan, please send the final invoice by Friday. I will review it Monday. Can you confirm the purchase-order number?"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "source_text": "Hi Morgan, please send the final invoice by Friday. I will review it Monday. Can you confirm the purchase-order number?"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("westerly_palisade/email-to-task-by-dravara").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "source_text": "Hi Morgan, please send the final invoice by Friday. I will review it Monday. Can you confirm the purchase-order number?" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("westerly_palisade/email-to-task-by-dravara").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "source_text": "Hi Morgan, please send the final invoice by Friday. I will review it Monday. Can you confirm the purchase-order number?"
}' |
apify call westerly_palisade/email-to-task-by-dravara --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,westerly_palisade/email-to-task-by-dravara"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/XGAjg6YPkgy4UO5M2/builds/M8Bf25XGLh55t28yi/openapi.json