Apify MCP Server

What it does

The Apify MCP Server bridges AI assistants to Apify's library of thousands of ready-made web scrapers, crawlers, and automation Actors. Any Apify Actor becomes an AI tool — extract data from Instagram, Google Maps, Facebook, Amazon, and more, or run full browser-based automation tasks, all orchestrated by your AI agent.

Key features

• 8,000+ ready-made tools — Every Actor in Apify Store is instantly available: social media scrapers, SERP scrapers, map extractors, RAG web browser, and more
• Dynamic tool discovery — AI agents can search for and add new Actors mid-conversation without pre-configuration
• Hosted endpoint — https://mcp.apify.com supports OAuth and Streamable HTTP; connect from Claude.ai or VS Code with just a URL
• Structured output — Actor results include schema inference for clean, typed data returned to the LLM
• Skyfire agentic payments — Agents can autonomously pay for Actor runs without manual API token management
• Configurable tool sets — Load only the categories or specific Actors you need via URL query params

Installation

Claude Desktop (stdio):

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

Claude.ai web / VS Code (hosted, OAuth): Add MCP server URL: https://mcp.apify.com

Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <your-apify-token>" }
    }
  }
}

Supported hosts

Claude Desktop, Claude.ai web (OAuth), VS Code Copilot, Cursor