The official Apify MCP server connects an AI agent to thousands of ready-built Apify Actors for web scraping, data extraction, and automation, either via a hosted OAuth endpoint or a local npm package.
Quick Install
Automated & IDE Setup
Copy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent — or use 1-click editor setup below.
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💡 Paste the JSON block into your client's configuration file under mcpServers, then restart the application.
Overview
This is Apify's official MCP server, letting an AI assistant discover and run any Actor from the Apify Store in real time for scraping, data extraction, and automation tasks. The easiest path is the hosted server at mcp.apify.com, which supports OAuth and can find and use any Actor from the Store; it's also distributed as an npm package (@apify/actors-mcp-server) for local or self-hosted use.
Use cases
•Run a specific Apify Actor (e.g. a web scraper) from an agent conversation
•Discover and select an Actor from the Apify Store for a scraping task
•Extract structured data from a website via an Actor, in real time
•Automate a multi-step web task using an existing Actor
Key features
•Access to thousands of pre-built Apify Actors for scraping and automation
•Hosted server with OAuth and full Actor Store discovery
•Also distributed as an npm package for local/self-hosted use
•Official Apify integration
Capabilities & Tool Schemas
Inspect callable tools, capabilities, and parameters exposed to AI agents by Jirispilka Actors MCP Server.
Extracted Tool Capabilities
Access to thousands of pre-built Apify Actors for scraping and automation
Hosted server with OAuth and full Actor Store discovery
Also distributed as an npm package for local/self-hosted use
The Apify Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server at mcp.apify.com instantly connects AI applications and agents to thousands of ready‑built tools. It allows your AI assistant to use any Apify Actor for web scraping, data extraction, and automation tasks in real time.
🚀 Try the hosted Apify MCP Server!
For the easiest setup and most powerful features, including the ability to find and use any Actor from Apify Store, connect your AI assistant to our hosted server:
Use Instagram Scraper to scrape Instagram posts, profiles, places, photos, and comments.
Use RAG Web Browser to search the web, scrape the top N URLs, and return their content.
Video tutorial: Integrate 5,000+ Apify Actors and Agents with Claude
🚀 Quickstart
You can use the Apify MCP Server in two ways:
HTTPS Endpoint (mcp.apify.com): Connect from your MCP client via OAuth or by including the Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN> header in your requests. This is the recommended method for most use cases. Because it supports OAuth, you can connect from clients like Claude.ai or Visual Studio Code using just the URL: https://mcp.apify.com.
https://mcp.apify.com (recommended) for streamable transport
https://mcp.apify.com/sse for legacy SSE transport
Standard Input/Output (stdio): Ideal for local integrations and command-line tools like the Claude for Desktop client.
Set the MCP client server command to npx @apify/actors-mcp-server and the APIFY_TOKEN environment variable to your Apify API token.
See npx @apify/actors-mcp-server --help for more options.
You can find detailed instructions for setting up the MCP server in the Apify documentation.
🤖 MCP clients and examples
To interact with the Apify MCP server, you can use various MCP clients, such as:
This interactive, chat-like interface provides an easy way to explore the capabilities of Apify MCP without any local setup.
Just sign in with your Apify account and start experimenting with web scraping, data extraction, and automation tools!
Or use the Anthropic Desktop extension file (dxt) for one-click installation: Apify MCP server dxt file
🛠️ Tools, resources, and prompts
The MCP server provides a set of tools for interacting with Apify Actors.
Since the Apify Store is large and growing rapidly, the MCP server provides a way to dynamically discover and use new Actors.
Actors
Any Apify Actor can be used as a tool.
By default, the server is pre-configured with one Actor, apify/rag-web-browser, and several helper tools.
The MCP server loads an Actor's input schema and creates a corresponding MCP tool.
This allows the AI agent to know exactly what arguments to pass to the Actor and what to expect in return.
For example, for the apify/rag-web-browser Actor, the input parameters are:
config.json
{
"query": "restaurants in San Francisco",
"maxResults": 3
}
You don't need to manually specify which Actor to call or its input parameters; the LLM handles this automatically.
When a tool is called, the arguments are automatically passed to the Actor by the LLM.
You can refer to the specific Actor's documentation for a list of available arguments.
Helper tools
One of the most powerful features of using MCP with Apify is dynamic tool discovery.
It gives an AI agent the ability to find new tools (Actors) as needed and incorporate them.
Here are some special MCP operations and how the Apify MCP Server supports them:
Actor discovery and management: Search for Actors, view their details, and dynamically add or remove them as available tools for the AI.
Apify documentation: Search the Apify documentation and fetch specific documents to provide context to the AI.
Actor runs (*): Get lists of your Actor runs, inspect their details, and retrieve logs.
Apify storage (*): Access data from your datasets and key-value stores.
Note: Helper tool categories marked with (*) are not enabled by default in the MCP server and must be explicitly enabled using the tools argument (either the --tools command line argument for the stdio server or the ?tools URL query parameter for the remote MCP server). The tools argument is a comma-separated list of categories with the following possible values:
docs: Search and fetch Apify documentation tools.
runs: Get Actor run lists, run details, and logs from a specific Actor run.
storage: Access datasets, key-value stores, and their records.
preview: Experimental tools in preview mode.
For example, to enable all tools, use npx @apify/actors-mcp-server --tools docs,runs,storage,preview or https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=docs,runs,storage,preview.
Overview of available tools
Here is an overview list of all the tools provided by the Apify MCP Server.
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