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Run thousands of Apify Store Actors to scrape websites, extract data and automate web tasks from your AI assistant.

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https://mcp.apify.com

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Connects your assistant to the Apify Store, a marketplace of ready-made scrapers, crawlers and automation tools called Actors. Actors can extract data from social media, search engines, maps, e-commerce and travel sites, or fetch and read arbitrary web pages. The server also covers Actor tasks, schedules and run storage such as datasets and key-value stores.

The hosted endpoint at https://mcp.apify.com uses streamable HTTP and supports OAuth sign-in, or an Authorization: Bearer header with an Apify API token. A local stdio option is available through the npm package @apify/actors-mcp-server, which needs the APIFY_TOKEN environment variable. Running Actors uses an Apify account.

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  • Search the Apify Store for Actors that fit a task
  • Read an Actor's README and input schema before running it
  • Run Actors and retrieve dataset and key-value store output
  • Scrape social media, maps, search results and e-commerce sites
  • Fetch web pages as Markdown, text, HTML or links
  • Create and run saved Actor tasks and schedules

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  • Find an Apify Actor that scrapes Google Maps and run it for coffee shops in Berlin

  • Scrape the latest posts from this Instagram profile and summarize them

  • Fetch this URL as Markdown using Apify

  • Schedule my saved Actor task to run every day at 08:00 UTC

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Claude Code

  1. Run this in a terminal, in your project folder:
claude mcp add --transport http apify https://mcp.apify.com
  1. Start Claude Code, type /mcp, pick apify and choose Authenticate. A browser window opens for the Apify sign-in.

Add --scope user to make it available in every project, not just this one.

Claude Desktop

  1. Open Settings → Connectors and click Add custom connector.
  2. Name it Apify and paste this URL:
https://mcp.apify.com
  1. Click Add, then Connect, and sign in when Apify asks.

Claude Desktop's JSON config file only starts local servers. Remote servers go through Connectors, and connectors you add on claude.ai show up here too.

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  1. Open the connector form on claude.ai. This button fills in the name and URL for you:
  1. Check that the URL reads https://mcp.apify.com and click Add.
  2. Click Connect and sign in when Apify asks.

Free plans allow one custom connector. On Team and Enterprise plans an owner adds it under Organization settings → Connectors.

ChatGPT

  1. On chatgpt.com, open Settings → Security and login and turn on Developer mode.
  2. Go to chatgpt.com/plugins and click + to create an app for a remote MCP server.
  3. Paste https://mcp.apify.com as the server URL and choose OAuth. ChatGPT sends you to Apify to sign in.

Developer mode is available on the web for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Education accounts.

Cursor

Or add it by hand to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (all projects) or .cursor/mcp.json (this project):

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

Cursor shows Needs login next to the server. Click it to sign in.

VS Code

Or from a terminal:

code --add-mcp '{"name":"apify","type":"http","url":"https://mcp.apify.com"}'

Or commit it to the repo in .vscode/mcp.json:

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

VS Code asks you to sign in the first time the server starts.

Devin Desktop

  1. Add it to ~/.config/devin/mcp_config.json (macOS and Linux) or %APPDATA%\devin\mcp_config.json (Windows):
mcp_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.apify.com"
    }
  }
}
  1. Refresh the MCP server list in Cascade and sign in when asked.

Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf. It reads serverUrl (or url) for remote servers.

Codex

codex mcp add apify --url https://mcp.apify.com
codex mcp login apify

Or edit ~/.codex/config.toml directly:

config.toml
[mcp_servers.apify]
url = "https://mcp.apify.com"

Gemini CLI

gemini mcp add --transport http apify https://mcp.apify.com

Then, inside Gemini CLI, run /mcp auth apify to sign in.

This adds it to the current project. Add -s user to use it everywhere.

Any client

Most clients accept this shape. Some name the URL field differently: serverUrl in Devin Desktop, httpUrl in Gemini CLI's settings file.

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

Zed puts servers under context_servers in its settings. Cline needs "type": "streamableHttp", or it assumes SSE.

Client only starts local servers? Bridge it with npx -y mcp-remote https://mcp.apify.com.

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Can I paste mcp.tc/i/apify into my MCP client?

No. mcp.tc links are pages, not server addresses. Connect with https://mcp.apify.com, so your client talks to Apify directly. The sign-in token only works there anyway. The quick link is for sharing: it opens this page, with setup steps for every client.

Does Apify need an API key or a sign-in?

Yes, you need a Apify account. The first time your client connects, it opens Apify's sign-in page. The token goes straight to the server's own URL, never through mcp.tc.

Is Apify a remote or a local server?

Remote. Apify hosts it at https://mcp.apify.com, and it speaks Streamable HTTP. There's nothing to install.

What can Apify do?

You can search the Apify Store for Actors that fit a task, read an Actor's README and input schema before running it and run Actors and retrieve dataset and key-value store output.

Which clients can use it?

Any client that supports remote MCP servers: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, claude.ai, ChatGPT in developer mode, Cursor, VS Code, Devin Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Zed and others. The setup steps cover each one.

Who wrote this page?

mcp.tc's robot read Apify's own metadata (its MCP handshake, tool list and public pages), and an AI model drafted the text from it. A person reviews anything the checks can't confirm. The text can still be wrong, so if you spot a mistake, use Report this listing on this page.

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