Apify Actors
Summary
Apify's official MCP server — turn thousands of ready-made scrapers into tools your assistant can call.
Features
- Call thousands of maintained scrapers as tools
- Search the Actor store and add tools dynamically
- Structured results from sites with no public API
Installation
Set up this MCP server in your favorite AI agent — copy a ready-made configuration below.
Description
Apify's official MCP server exposes its Actor marketplace to an AI assistant, which is an efficient way to give an agent web-data capabilities without building any scrapers.
What it unlocks
Thousands of maintained Actors covering search engines, social platforms, marketplaces, maps, job boards, review sites, and general-purpose crawling. Each one has a documented input schema, so the assistant knows what parameters to supply, and returns structured data rather than HTML.
How it works
- Dynamic tool discovery. The assistant can search the Actor store and add relevant Actors as tools mid-conversation, rather than being limited to a preconfigured list.
- Direct execution of any Actor with parameters, returning the dataset it produces.
- Dataset access for retrieving results from past runs.
Why it beats writing a scraper
Actors are maintained by their authors. When a target site changes its markup, someone else fixes it. For an agent that needs data from a dozen different sites, that maintenance difference is the whole argument.
Requires an Apify account and token; runs with npx -y @apify/actors-mcp-server. Free monthly credits cover light use.
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