
Apify's own MCP server: your agent finds and runs ready-made Apify Actors to scrape social media, search, maps and any website.
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Apify's own MCP server, hosted at mcp.apify.com. Your agent can use any Actor in Apify Store (ready-made scrapers, crawlers and automation tools) as a tool, to pull data from social media, search engines, maps, e-commerce sites and any other website. It finds the right Actor, reads its input schema, runs it and then reads the results. What you can do with it - Search Apify Store and read an Actor's details, inputs, pricing and output schema - Run Actors and read their results from datasets and key-value stores - Search the web and fetch any page as Markdown with the built-in RAG Web Browser and Web Fetch Actors - Check, list and abort Actor runs, and read their logs - Create and update saved Actor tasks and schedules - Search and read the Apify documentation How it connects Add https://mcp.apify.com to your MCP client. On first connection your browser opens so you can sign in to Apify and approve access; you can use an Apify API token in an Authorization: Bearer header instead. By default it loads Actor search and running, the docs and the two web Actors; add ?tools= to the address to pick other tools or specific Actors. The Apify CLI's apify mcp install command writes the setup for you, and for coding agents Apify also offers a plugin that sets up this server together with its Agent Skills. Good to know - Limited to search-actors, fetch-actor-details, search-apify-docs and fetch-apify-docs (through ?tools=), it works without an Apify account. - Actor runs are billed to your Apify account; agents can also pay per run through Apify's agentic payments. - For safety it leaves out full-permission Actors, which only you can approve. - Apify collects anonymous tool-usage telemetry; add telemetry-enabled=false to the address to opt out.
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“Find the latest news about autonomous AI agents and summarize the key developments.”
“Scrape the top 10 restaurants in Prague from Google Maps with their contact details.”
“Show me the next 10 results from that scraping run.”
“Fetch this page and give it to me as Markdown.”
“Scrape the latest posts and comments from this Instagram profile.”
“Get the Google search results for best CRM for startups.”
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Reads only
Searches Apify Store and reads Actor details and pricing · Reads run results from datasets and key-value stores · Searches and reads the Apify documentation
Makes changes · your agent can ask first
Runs Actors on your Apify account · Aborts runs, and creates or updates saved tasks and schedules
No changes at all? Connect to https://mcp.apify.com?tools=search-actors,fetch-actor-details,search-apify-docs,fetch-apify-docs instead: it only ever offers the tools that read.
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Add to VS Codecopilot mcp add --transport http --header 'Authorization: <Authorization>' apify-mcp-server https://mcp.apify.com/
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Add to Cursor.cursor/mcp.json{
"mcpServers": {
"apify-mcp-server": {
"url": "https://mcp.apify.com/",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "<Authorization>"
}
}
}
}A hosted server: nothing runs on your machine.
claude mcp add --transport http --header 'Authorization: <Authorization>' apify-mcp-server https://mcp.apify.com/
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codex mcp add apify-mcp-server --url https://mcp.apify.com/
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~/.gemini/config/mcp_config.json{
"mcpServers": {
"apify-mcp-server": {
"url": "https://mcp.apify.com/",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "<Authorization>"
}
}
}
}A hosted server: nothing runs on your machine.
gemini mcp add --transport http --header 'Authorization: <Authorization>' apify-mcp-server https://mcp.apify.com/
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A hosted server: nothing runs on your machine.
openclaw mcp add apify-mcp-server --url https://mcp.apify.com/ --transport streamable-http
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opencode mcp add apify-mcp-server --url https://mcp.apify.com/
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hermes mcp add apify-mcp-server --url https://mcp.apify.com/
~/.hermes/config.yaml{
"mcp_servers": {
"apify-mcp-server": {
"url": "https://mcp.apify.com/",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "<Authorization>"
}
}
}
}AuthorizationRequiredSecretApify API token for authentication with Apify platform services. For example 'Bearer <apify-api-token>'Replace each <NAME> placeholder with your own value.
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Safe to install in every agent it supports. Runs remotely on mcp.apify.com · needs your sign-in.