Apify MCP Server

What you can do with Apify MCP Server

The Apify MCP server lets agents extract data from social media, search engines, maps, e-commerce and other websites by discovering and running Actors from Apify Store, and by managing runs, datasets, tasks and schedules on the Apify platform.

• ·Search Apify Store for an Actor and run it
• ·Fetch web content with the default rag-web-browser and web-fetch Actors
• ·Read run logs and dataset results
• ·Create and schedule Actor tasks
• ·Search Apify documentation and API

What Apify MCP Server can and cannot do

What you need before using Apify MCP Server

Runtime

None for the hosted server; Node.js with npx for stdio (npx @apify/actors-mcp-server)

Credentials

OAuth sign-in on the hosted server, or APIFY_TOKEN from your Apify account

Payment

Apify platform usage; plan or free-credit terms not stated in the README

Connect Apify MCP Server and confirm it works

1. Hosted (recommended): connect your client to https://mcp.apify.com and sign in with OAuth, or send Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>
2. Stdio: add command npx with args ["@apify/actors-mcp-server"] and APIFY_TOKEN in env

claude mcp add --transport http apify-mcp-server https://mcp.apify.com/

[mcp_servers.apify-mcp-server]
url = "https://mcp.apify.com/"

https://mcp.apify.com/

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

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify-mcp-server": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.apify.com/"
    }
  }
}

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

When to choose another server

• Firecrawl MCP Server#56

  You want one general scrape, crawl and search API rather than a marketplace of Actors.

• Brightdata MCP#107

  You need a remote browser session with proxy rotation and CAPTCHA solving.

• Playwright MCP Server#10

  You want to drive a local browser yourself with no platform account.

Compared side by side in Browser automation MCP servers.

• Tester Client for Model Context Protocol (MCP) MCP Server
• mcp-server-rag-web-browser#3,562
• Playwright MCP Server#47,245

What changed, and when this was checked

First listed

Jan 3, 2025

Latest version published

Oct 15, 2026

Version history

78 versions tracked (below)

Requirements evidence

Declared by Glama, last synced Oct 16, 2026. Not independently verified by MCP Toplist.

Profile checked

Oct 9, 2026 against README

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