# Apify MCP Server

> Give agents thousands of ready-made scrapers and automation tools from Apify Store.

## Facts
- **Category:** [MCP Servers](https://agentsearchengine.app/category/mcp-servers)
- **Type:** MCP server
- **Pricing:** Open source
- **GitHub stars:** 8,127
- **Language:** TypeScript
- **License:** MIT
- **Last repo activity:** today (Sep 22, 2026)
- **Official site:** https://mcp.apify.com
- **Source code:** https://github.com/apify/apify-mcp-server
- **Listing on Agent Search Engine:** https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/apify-mcp-server
- **Data verified:** September 2026

## Best for
Agents that need structured data from specific sites without writing and hosting scrapers.

## Avoid if
You need scraping without an Apify account; Actors run on the Apify platform.

## About Apify MCP Server
Apify's official MCP server lets agents run Actors from Apify Store, the platform's ready-made scrapers, crawlers and automation tools, to extract data from social media, search engines, maps, e-commerce and other sites. The recommended hosted endpoint at mcp.apify.com supports OAuth from clients such as Claude.ai and VS Code; a local stdio package is also available.

## Connect to an MCP client
Hosted MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com.

### Claude Code (Run in your terminal)

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

### Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json or .cursor/mcp.json)

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

### VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json)

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

### Codex (Run in your terminal)

```shell
codex mcp add apify-mcp-server --url https://mcp.apify.com
```

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