Apify MCP Server

The Apify MCP Server enables seamless integration between Claude and the Apify platform, allowing you to harness the power of web scraping and automation directly within your conversations. This server provides access to Apify's extensive marketplace of ready-made actors for extracting data from websites, automating web workflows, and processing information at scale.

Overview

Apify is a cloud platform for web scraping and automation, offering thousands of pre-built tools called "actors" that can extract data from popular websites, scrape search results, monitor web pages, and perform various automation tasks. This MCP server brings Apify's capabilities into your Claude workflow, enabling you to run actors, retrieve datasets, and manage automation tasks without leaving your conversation.

Features

Actor Management

• Browse and search through Apify's extensive actor marketplace
• Run actors with custom input configurations
• Monitor actor run status and retrieve results
• Access both public and private actors from your Apify account

Data Retrieval

• Fetch datasets generated by actor runs
• Access structured data in various formats
• Retrieve large-scale scraped data efficiently
• Query and filter dataset contents

Run Management

• Start new actor runs with specified parameters
• Check the status of ongoing runs
• Retrieve logs and debugging information
• Manage multiple concurrent runs

Use Cases

The Apify MCP Server excels at tasks that require web data extraction and automation:

Market Research: Scrape product prices, reviews, and competitor information from e-commerce sites to analyze market trends and competitive positioning.

Lead Generation: Extract contact information, company details, and social media profiles to build comprehensive prospect lists.

Content Monitoring: Track changes on websites, monitor news sources, or aggregate content from multiple platforms for analysis.

SEO Analysis: Collect search engine results, analyze SERP features, and gather ranking data for keyword research.

Social Media Intelligence: Extract posts, comments, and engagement metrics from social platforms to understand audience sentiment and trends.

How It Works

Once connected, you can interact with Apify through natural language. Ask Claude to scrape a website, run a specific actor, or retrieve data from a previous run. The server handles the communication with Apify's API, translating your requests into actions and returning formatted results that Claude can process and present to you.

The server maintains context about your Apify account, available actors, and recent runs, making it easy to chain together multiple operations or iterate on data extraction tasks without manual intervention.