Kanto Labs MCP server

An MCP server that gives AI assistants (Claude, Cursor, VS Code Copilot and any other MCP client) 14 web, data and media tools, backed by Kanto Labs' actors on the Apify Store:

Failed or unreachable inputs are not charged.

Coming soon: enrich_company, upscale_image, get_topic_trends, get_trending_topics, check_website_traffic_rank, search_free_images are listed already, but their actors are not yet public on the Apify Store; until they are, calls to them return an "actor not yet public" error (nothing is charged).

How billing works

The server is free and open source (MIT). Each tool call runs the matching actor on Apify with your own Apify API token, so the actor's pay-per-event price is billed to your Apify account (Apify's free plan includes monthly credit). There is no Kanto Labs account, key or subscription.

Every call carries a spending cap: maxTotalChargeUsd (default $1.00, change it with the KANTO_MAX_CHARGE_USD env var or per call). Apify stops the run once it has charged that much, so an assistant cannot run up a large bill by accident. Each result states what the call cost.

Setup

1. Get an Apify API token: sign up at apify.com, then Settings -> API & Integrations (console.apify.com/settings/integrations).
2. Add the server to your client (Node.js 18.17+ required; npx downloads and builds it from GitHub on first run).

Claude Desktop

Edit claude_desktop_config.json (Settings -> Developer -> Edit Config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kanto-labs": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "github:kanto-labs/kanto-labs-mcp"],
      "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "apify_api_your_token_here" }
    }
  }
}

Or install the one-click bundle kanto-labs-mcp.mcpb from the Releases page: double-click it and paste your token when asked.

Claude Code

claude mcp add kanto-labs -e APIFY_TOKEN=apify_api_your_token_here -- npx -y github:kanto-labs/kanto-labs-mcp

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json (global) or .cursor/mcp.json (project):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kanto-labs": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "github:kanto-labs/kanto-labs-mcp"],
      "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "apify_api_your_token_here" }
    }
  }
}

VS Code (GitHub Copilot agent mode)

.vscode/mcp.json - the token is asked for once and stored securely:

{
  "inputs": [
    { "type": "promptString", "id": "apify_token", "description": "Apify API token", "password": true }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "kanto-labs": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "github:kanto-labs/kanto-labs-mcp"],
      "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "${input:apify_token}" }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf, Cline, Zed and others

Any client that launches stdio servers works: command npx, args -y github:kanto-labs/kanto-labs-mcp, env APIFY_TOKEN.

Windows: if your client reports spawn npx ENOENT, use "command": "cmd" with "args": ["/c", "npx", "-y", "github:kanto-labs/kanto-labs-mcp"].

Example prompts

• "What is stripe.com built with? And shopify.com?"
• "Convert https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762 to Markdown and summarize section 3."
• "Audit the SEO of https://example.com and list the three most important fixes."
• "Crawl up to 20 pages of example.com, check broken links, keep it under $0.10."
• "Read the text on this receipt: https://example.com/receipt.jpg - what is the total?"
• "OCR this scanned Japanese PDF with the accurate model, first 5 pages only."
• "When do stripe.com and shopify.com expire, who is their registrar, and do they have DMARC set up?"
• "Is kanto-example-name.com still available to register?"
• "Pull 8 frames from https://media.w3.org/2010/05/sintel/trailer.mp4 and describe what happens in the video."
• "Download all product images wider than 300 px from https://books.toscrape.com/ as WEBP."
• "Which of these link-building prospects has the highest domain authority: example-blog.com, another-site.org, third-site.net?"
• "Enrich hubspot.com, Siemens and canva.com: industry, HQ, employees, logo and LinkedIn page."
• "Upscale https://example.com/product-small.jpg 4x as PNG."
• "Compare interest in ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude over the past 12 months. Which is growing?"
• "What were people in Japan and Germany reading about yesterday?"
• "How popular are zalando.de and allegro.pl, and in which countries?"
• "Find 10 landscape photos of the Eiffel Tower at night that need no attribution."

Tool parameters

All tools also accept: