Apify MCP Server

Name: Apify MCP Server
Author: apify

by apifyversion 0.21.2i★ –iRuns in the cloud

Registry namecom.apify/apify-mcp-server

Install

Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Extract data from any website with thousands of scrapers, crawlers, and automations on Apify Store ⚡

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Our basic checksi3 of 3 passedChecked from public information; code not scanned yet
UsageiNot measured yet★ –

What you can do with it

We have not written a plain-language summary for this one yet. Below are the facts we read from the registry.

Connection: Runs in the cloud
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Category: Other
You need to fill in: Authorization

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

Basic checks: 3 of 3 passed
Runs on the maker’s server: what you ask it goes through their server.
You fill in yourself: Authorization

Values marked secret are keys to your account. Never share them or paste them into a chat.

You need

Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

This address needs a key in a request header, which the add-connector menu cannot set. Use Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code instead.

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http apify https://mcp.apify.com/ --header 'Authorization: your-value'

Fill in the empty values before running it.

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "apify": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

This address needs a key in a request header, which the add-connector menu cannot set. Use Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code instead.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

Values you fill in

Authorization secret required HTTP header
Apify API token for authentication with Apify platform services. For example 'Bearer '

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

The server asks you to sign in before it lists its tools.

Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 6, 2026

✓ Pass
Maker matches the repo
The registry name was verified against the domain apify.com (the registry checks domain ownership)
… Not checked yet
Still maintained
We have not read this repo from GitHub yet
… Not checked yet
Has a licence
We have not read this repo from GitHub yet
✓ Pass
Endpoint responds
Responded in 980 ms (HTTP 401)
✓ Pass
Sign-in with OAuth
Declares OAuth sign-in, so your AI app can take you to log in
… Not checked yet
No hidden instructions in tool descriptions
Not checked yet; we read the tool list when we check the endpoint

Compared with others in Otheri

More stars than 0% of the other 32433 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 98% of the other 32433 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 32433 servers in this category

Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.

Common questions

Is Apify MCP Server safe?

It passed 3 of 3 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

You need to fill in: Authorization

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs in the maker’s cloud. Connect over the internet with nothing to install, but what you send passes through the maker’s servers.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (0.21.2) reached the registry yesterday.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

What can I use instead?

In the same category: Spec Driven Development, Remote Desktop Commander, Symantec Cloud DLP AIops

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README from the maker

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Apify MCP server

Connect your agent to the largest marketplace of tools for AI.

The official Apify Model Context Protocol (MCP) server gives AI agents web scraping, data extraction, and browser automation through thousands of ready-made Actors from [Apify Store](https://apify.com/store), at [`https://mcp.apify.com`](https://mcp.apify.com).

Apify is the marketplace of ready-to-run tools for AI agents. One connection to the Apify MCP server gives your agent thousands of tools to choose from, for jobs like web fetch, SERP monitoring, lead generation and enrichment, and pulling data from e-commerce sites and social media. The server loads only what each task needs.

Your agent searches Apify Store, checks an Actor's input and pricing, runs it, and reads the structured results, so you don't install a separate MCP server for every site. Connect to the hosted server with OAuth, or run it locally over stdio with the @apify/actors-mcp-server npm package.

Quickstart
Set up your client
Remote (hosted) or local MCP server
How an agent uses Apify Actors
Tools, resources, and prompts
Choose which tools load
UI mode configuration
Example prompts
Pricing and limits
Telemetry
Troubleshooting and limitations
FAQ
Development
Contributing
Privacy and license
Learn more

🚀 Quickstart

Open the MCP configurator, pick your client, and choose the tools you want.
Copy the generated configuration, deeplink, or command into your client.
Sign in to Apify in the browser window that opens. If you don't have an account, you can create a free one there.

The hosted endpoint is https://mcp.apify.com. If your client can't use OAuth, send your Apify API token in an Authorization: Bearer header instead. Treat the token like a password and keep it out of repositories.

Using a coding agent such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot? An official Apify plugin installs this MCP server together with Apify agent skills in one step.

🤖 Set up your client

The configurator generates the exact setup for each supported client, including Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, Claude, Claude Desktop, Codex, OpenCode, Kiro, and more. The snippets below cover the most common cases.

Claude Code

claude mcp add apify "https://mcp.apify.com" -t http

Claude Code opens the Apify sign-in page the first time it uses the server. To install the Apify plugin with Apify agent skills instead, run /plugin marketplace add apify/apify-claude-code-plugin, then /plugin install apify@apify and /reload-plugins.

ChatGPT

Open ChatGPT Plugins, select +, then Add custom MCP server.
Name it Apify, enter https://mcp.apify.com as the server URL, and choose OAuth authentication.
Review the risk warning, select I understand and want to continue, then Create as a plugin.
Sign in with Apify, review the tools, and install the plugin. No API token is needed.
Start a new conversation, type @, and select Apify.

In Business, Enterprise, and Edu workspaces, an admin or owner may need to create or publish the plugin. If the option is missing, ask your workspace admin. When the server's tools change, open the plugin and select Refresh.

The ChatGPT desktop app uses local MCP configuration shared with Codex instead: go to Settings > MCP servers > Add server, choose Streamable HTTP, and enter https://mcp.apify.com. See OpenAI's custom MCP server guide.

Cursor

Use the one-click install link from the configurator, or let the Apify CLI write the configuration, including your API token:

apify mcp install cursor

The same command works for claude-code, vscode, codex, kiro, and antigravity.

VS Code and GitHub Copilot

Use the one-click install link from the configurator, run apify mcp install vscode, or add https://mcp.apify.com as an HTTP server in your MCP configuration:

"servers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com" } } }

Claude

Apify is available as a Claude connector. Open Settings > Connectors, find Apify in the connector directory, and connect it. You can also select Add custom connector, name it Apify, and enter https://mcp.apify.com as the remote MCP server URL. Sign in with Apify when prompted. The same connector works on Claude.ai and in Claude Desktop. See the Claude guide.

Any other MCP client (JSON config)

Most clients that support remote servers and OAuth accept a configuration like this:

"mcpServers": { "apify": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com" } } }

Local stdio (npx)

Requires Node.js 22 or later.

"mcpServers": { "actors-mcp-server": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@apify/actors-mcp-server"], "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" } } } }

If you've run apify login, the server can also read the token saved by the Apify CLI. Run npx @apify/actors-mcp-server --help for all options.

The server is also listed in the Docker MCP catalog, and each release ships an MCP bundle file (apify-mcp-server.mcpb) for one-click installation in clients that support it.

Remote (hosted) or local MCP server

The hosted remote MCP server with OAuth is the recommended option. Use the local server when you want to run the MCP process on your own machine; Actors still run and store their results on the Apify platform in both modes. If your client supports only stdio, you can also bridge it to the hosted server with mcp-remote: npx mcp-remote https://mcp.apify.com.

	Hosted (`https://mcp.apify.com`)	Local (`npx @apify/actors-mcp-server`)
Transport	Streamable HTTP	stdio
Authentication	OAuth or Bearer token	`APIFY_TOKEN` environment variable or Apify CLI login
Output schemas inferred for Actor results	Yes	No
Tool selection	`tools` URL parameter	`--tools` flag or `TOOLS` environment variable
Updates	Always the latest server	The npm version you install

How an agent uses Apify Actors

Actors are serverless programs on the Apify platform. Each one does a specific job, like scraping Google Maps, crawling a website for RAG, or collecting social media posts. The MCP server turns Actors into tools an agent can find and call without you configuring each one in advance.

A typical task follows four steps:

search-actors finds candidate Actors in Apify Store for the task.
fetch-actor-details returns the Actor's input schema, README, and pricing, plus its output schema on request.
call-actor starts the run and waits for it to finish, 30 seconds by default and up to 45. It returns the run status and storage IDs; the scraped items stay in the run's dataset.
get-dataset-items reads the results from the run's dataset, with limit and offset for pagination.

The server adds get-dataset-items, get-key-value-store-record, get-actor-run, and abort-actor-run whenever call-actor or an Actor tool is loaded, so the agent can always read results and check on long runs that outlast the wait.

You can also expose a specific Actor as its own tool, for example apify/instagram-scraper. The server builds the tool's parameters from the Actor's input schema, so the agent knows exactly what to pass. A Server Actor with an API schema, such as apify/web-fetch, apify/web-search, or apify/rag-web-browser, gets a tool that sends one HTTP request to its API instead.

Actors that run their own MCP server. Some Actors are MCP servers themselves. fetch-actor-mcp-tool-list lists their tools, and call-actor-mcp-tool calls one. When such an Actor is loaded as a tool source and has no API schema, its tools are exposed under names in the form username--actor-name--tool-name; an Actor with an API schema, such as apify/web-search, gets its server tool instead, and call-actor-mcp-tool reaches its MCP tools. Apify Store also lists MCP-related Actors from independent creators; those are separate products with their own READMEs and pricing.

🛠️ Tools, resources, and prompts

Any Actor can be a tool, and agents discover new ones as they work. By default, the server lo

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Apify MCP Server

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

Values you fill in

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Otheri

Common questions

Alternatives

Spec Driven Development

Remote Desktop Commander

Symantec Cloud DLP AIops

README from the maker

Apify MCP server

Contents

🚀 Quickstart

🤖 Set up your client

Remote (hosted) or local MCP server

How an agent uses Apify Actors

🛠️ Tools, resources, and prompts