Apify's MCP server lets agents search the Apify Store, inspect and call Actors, read run results and datasets, and search Apify documentation. The hosted server supports OAuth or a bearer API token, and tools can be customized via URL parameters.
Connect
- 1Connect it in ChatGPT
Turn on Developer mode in ChatGPT (Settings → Security and login), open Plugins, select + and paste https://mcp.apify.com as the MCP server URL, then sign in with OAuth. Add it to a chat from the composer's tools menu.
- 2Or add it to Codex or the API
codex mcp add apify --url https://mcp.apify.com codex mcp login apifyThe login command opens a browser to finish OAuth.
Configs are generated from the publisher's documented endpoint. Check their docs for plan requirements and scopes. New to this? Read the step-by-step tutorial.
Tools 11
search-actorsfetch-actor-detailscall-actorget-actor-runget-dataset-itemsget-key-value-store-recordabort-actor-runsearch-apify-docsfetch-apify-docsapify--rag-web-browserapify--web-fetchThings to ask
- “Find an Actor that scrapes Google Maps reviews”
- “Scrape the top 50 Instagram posts for #coffee”
- “Run the website content crawler on docs.example.com”
- “Get the dataset items from my last Actor run”