Turn Your AI Assistant Into a Web Scraping Powerhouse

Stop building one-off scrapers and data extraction scripts. The Apify Actors MCP Server connects your AI assistant to 5,000+ production-ready Actors for web scraping, data extraction, and automation tasks.

Skip the Integration Headaches

You know the drill: your AI needs to pull data from Instagram, scrape Google Maps, or analyze Facebook posts. You end up writing custom scrapers, dealing with anti-bot measures, and maintaining fragile code that breaks when sites change.

This MCP server flips that model. Instead of building scrapers, your AI assistant gets instant access to Apify's entire Actor ecosystem—battle-tested tools that handle the messy parts of web data extraction.

What You Get Out of the Box

Dynamic Tool Discovery: Your AI can search for and add new Actors mid-conversation. Need to scrape LinkedIn profiles? The assistant finds the right Actor, adds it as a tool, and starts using it immediately.

Production-Grade Scrapers: Every Actor is maintained by Apify or the community, handles rate limiting, respects robots.txt, and works around common anti-scraping measures.

Zero Maintenance: No more updating selectors when websites change. The Actor maintainers handle that complexity.

Here's what becomes possible:

"Find the top 10 Italian restaurants in San Francisco with their contact details"
→ Uses Google Maps scraper + contact extractor

"Analyze The Rock's Instagram engagement over the last month" 
→ Uses Instagram scraper + data analysis

"Get recent research papers about LLMs and summarize the key findings"
→ Uses web scraper + content extraction + summarization

Two Deployment Options

Cloud Actor: Perfect for team setups or when you want zero infrastructure management. Deploy once, use everywhere.

# Start server in Apify cloud
https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>

Local Server: Ideal for development or when working with sensitive data that stays local.

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

Real Workflow Impact

Instead of spending days building a Facebook scraper that breaks every few weeks, you tell your AI assistant: "Extract posts from these Facebook pages and analyze sentiment." The assistant finds the Facebook Posts Scraper Actor, configures it with the right parameters, runs it, and processes the results—all in one conversation.

The server handles the complexity of Actor discovery, input validation, execution monitoring, and result retrieval. Your AI gets a clean, consistent interface to thousands of specialized tools.

Beyond Basic Scraping

The helper tools unlock advanced workflows:

• Actor Management: Search, add, and remove tools dynamically
• Execution Monitoring: Check run status, fetch logs, abort long-running tasks
• Data Access: Pull results from Apify's datasets and key-value stores
• Built-in Help: The AI can discover what tools are available and how to use them

Multiple Client Support

Works with Claude Desktop (stdio), VS Code (stdio + SSE), LibreChat, and any MCP-compatible client. The server adapts Actor input schemas to work smoothly with different clients while maintaining full functionality.

Get Started in Minutes

1. Get an Apify token from your account settings
2. Install via Claude Desktop or VS Code with one click
3. Ask your AI: "What Apify Actors can I use?"

The server comes pre-configured with popular Actors like the RAG Web Browser, but you can specify exactly which tools you want available.

This isn't just another MCP server—it's access to an entire ecosystem of production-ready automation tools that would take months to build and maintain yourself. Your AI assistant becomes dramatically more capable without you writing a single line of scraping code.