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Apify MCP Server

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Description

MCP server that enables AI agents to extract data from social media, search engines, maps, and e-commerce sites using thousands of Apify scrapers.

Key Features

  • Access to thousands of ready-made scrapers, crawlers, and automation tools from Apify Store
  • OAuth support for one-URL connection from Claude.ai, VS Code, Cursor, and other MCP clients
  • Hosted server at mcp.apify.com with Streamable HTTP transport (SSE deprecated April 2026)
  • Agentic payments via x402 and Skyfire allowing AI agents to pay for Actor runs without API tokens
  • Output schema inference for structured Actor results on the hosted server
  • Local stdio mode via npx for integration with Claude Desktop and command-line tools

Use Cases

💡 Extracting structured data from social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Google Maps)
💡 Scraping search engine results pages (SERPs) for competitive analysis and research
💡 Automating e-commerce data collection for price monitoring and market intelligence
💡 Web browsing and RAG pipelines using the RAG Web Browser Actor
💡 Running custom scraping workflows triggered by AI agents via MCP protocol

Strengths & Limitations

✅ Strengths

  • • Actively maintained, recent updates
  • • High community interest (5.8k stars)
  • • Permissive open-source license (MIT)

Tags

typescript mcp tools agent data-processing api

Categories

🔌 MCP Tools

Quick Start

Connect via hosted server: add https://mcp.apify.com to your MCP client with OAuth → Or run locally: set APIFY_TOKEN env var → npx @apify/actors-mcp-server → Browse available Actors at apify.com/store → Invoke Actors as tools through MCP → Results returned as structured data
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