Open Data Actors MCP

open-data-actors-mcp: MCP server for public-data Apify actors (sanctions, SEC Form D, WARN, FMCSA)

A thin Model Context Protocol server that exposes 34 public-data Apify actors as tools: sanctions screening, SEC Form D funding leads, WARN layoff notices, FMCSA new carriers, technical SEO audits, tech-stack detection, job boards, building permits, Google Maps places, TikTok profiles, YouTube comments, Amazon best sellers, SAM.gov federal bids, 8-K alerts, CFPB complaints, NPI enrollments, podcast activity, OpenStreetMap leads, and more.

Disclosure: I am the author and maintainer of these actors. They run on Apify and are pay-per-result; the Apify free plan credit covers a trial. This server only forwards your tool call to the Apify API with *your* token. It has no backend of its own, stores nothing, and sends nothing anywhere else. If you want Apify's general-purpose MCP server (every Store actor), use mcp.apify.com; this one is a small, fixed, typed subset.

Hosted (no install)

Stateless streamable-HTTP endpoint: https://open-data-actors-mcp.vercel.app/mcp

Bring your own Apify token on every request (Authorization: Bearer , or ?token=). Nothing is stored or logged by us; runs bill to your own Apify account. Rate limit: 30 requests/minute per token.

claude mcp add --transport http open-data-actors https://open-data-actors-mcp.vercel.app/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN"

Verify with a real client: APIFY_TOKEN=... node test/http.test.mjs.

Install

You need Node 18+ and an Apify API token (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations?fpr=rnmakg).

{

"mcpServers": { "open-data-actors": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "github:Mamoo85/open-data-actors-mcp"], "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "your-apify-token" } } } }

(Not on npm yet; the github: form installs straight from this repo.) Works in Claude Desktop, Claude Code (claude mcp add open-data-actors -e APIFY_TOKEN=... -- npx -y github:Mamoo85/open-data-actors-mcp), Cursor, and any stdio MCP client.

Tools

Each tool takes the actor's own input fields plus max_results (default 25, cap 200). Calls run synchronously (run-sync-get-dataset-items, 240 s timeout) and return {count, items}. Fields that are secrets or state (proxy settings, API keys, webhook URLs, incremental-state names) are intentionally not exposed.

Cost

Each call starts an Apify run and you pay Apify the actor's pay-per-result price for the rows it produces. Lower max_results to cap spend. See each Store page for current pricing.

Tests

npm test starts the server and drives it with the real MCP SDK client over stdio: lists tools, checks error handling, and (when APIFY_TOKEN is set) makes one live tools/call. Verified 2026-10-14: 34 tools listed, live sanctions_screening call returned data.

Development

python gen.py regenerates src/tools.json from the actors' published input schemas.

MIT licensed.

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