Apify MCP server

Connect your agent to the largest marketplace of tools for AI.

The official Apify Model Context Protocol (MCP) server gives AI agents web scraping, data extraction, and browser automation through thousands of ready-made Actors from Apify Store, at https://mcp.apify.com.

Apify is the marketplace of ready-to-run tools for AI agents. One connection to the Apify MCP server gives your agent thousands of tools to choose from, for jobs like web fetch, SERP monitoring, lead generation and enrichment, and pulling data from e-commerce sites and social media. The server loads only what each task needs.

Your agent searches Apify Store, checks an Actor's input and pricing, runs it, and reads the structured results, so you don't install a separate MCP server for every site. Connect to the hosted server with OAuth, or run it locally over stdio with the @apify/actors-mcp-server npm package.

Contents

• Quickstart
• Set up your client
• Remote (hosted) or local MCP server
• How an agent uses Apify Actors
• Tools, resources, and prompts
• Choose which tools load
• UI mode configuration
• Example prompts
• Pricing and limits
• Telemetry
• Troubleshooting and limitations
• FAQ
• Development
• Contributing
• Privacy and license
• Learn more

🚀 Quickstart

1. Open the MCP configurator, pick your client, and choose the tools you want.
2. Copy the generated configuration, deeplink, or command into your client.
3. Sign in to Apify in the browser window that opens. If you don't have an account, you can create a free one there.

The hosted endpoint is https://mcp.apify.com. If your client can't use OAuth, send your Apify API token in an Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN> header instead. Treat the token like a password and keep it out of repositories.

Using a coding agent such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot? An official Apify plugin installs this MCP server together with Apify agent skills in one step.

🤖 Set up your client

The configurator generates the exact setup for each supported client, including Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, Claude, Claude Desktop, Codex, OpenCode, Kiro, and more. The snippets below cover the most common cases.

claude mcp add apify "https://mcp.apify.com" -t http

Claude Code opens the Apify sign-in page the first time it uses the server. To install the Apify plugin with Apify agent skills instead, run /plugin marketplace add apify/apify-claude-code-plugin, then /plugin install apify@apify and /reload-plugins.

1. Open ChatGPT Plugins, select +, then Add custom MCP server.
2. Name it Apify, enter https://mcp.apify.com as the server URL, and choose OAuth authentication.
3. Review the risk warning, select I understand and want to continue, then Create as a plugin.
4. Sign in with Apify, review the tools, and install the plugin. No API token is needed.
5. Start a new conversation, type @, and select Apify.

In Business, Enterprise, and Edu workspaces, an admin or owner may need to create or publish the plugin. If the option is missing, ask your workspace admin. When the server's tools change, open the plugin and select Refresh.

The ChatGPT desktop app uses local MCP configuration shared with Codex instead: go to Settings > MCP servers > Add server, choose Streamable HTTP, and enter https://mcp.apify.com. See OpenAI's custom MCP server guide.

Use the one-click install link from the configurator, or let the Apify CLI write the configuration, including your API token:

apify mcp install cursor

The same command works for claude-code, vscode, codex, kiro, and antigravity.

Use the one-click install link from the configurator, run apify mcp install vscode, or add https://mcp.apify.com as an HTTP server in your MCP configuration:

{
  "servers": {
    "apify": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com"
    }
  }
}

Apify is available as a Claude connector. Open Settings > Connectors, find Apify in the connector directory, and connect it. You can also select Add custom connector, name it Apify, and enter https://mcp.apify.com as the remote MCP server URL. Sign in with Apify when prompted. The same connector works on Claude.ai and in Claude Desktop. See the Claude guide.

Most clients that support remote servers and OAuth accept a configuration like this:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com"
    }
  }
}

Requires Node.js 22 or later.

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

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