# Apify (MCP Server)

> Run thousands of Apify Actors for scraping and automation from your agent

- Type: MCP server
- Publisher: Apify (official)
- Categories: Data & Analytics, Research, Development
- Website: https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp
- Docs: https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp
- Source: https://github.com/apify/apify-mcp-server
- Transport: streamable-http
- Server URL: https://mcp.apify.com
- Launch command: npx @apify/actors-mcp-server
- Sign-in: oauth
- Environment variables: APIFY_TOKEN
- GitHub stars: 9223
- Listed: 2025-01-02

## About

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.

## Install

1. **Connect 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.

2. **Or add it to Codex or the API**

   Codex CLI:

   ```bash
   codex mcp add apify --url https://mcp.apify.com
   codex mcp login apify
   ```

   config.toml:

   ```toml
   [mcp_servers.apify]
   url = "https://mcp.apify.com"
   ```

   Responses API:

   ```python
   import os
   from openai import OpenAI
   
   client = OpenAI()
   
   response = client.responses.create(
       model="gpt-6-astra",
       tools=[{
           "type": "mcp",
           "server_label": "apify",
           "server_url": "https://mcp.apify.com",
           "authorization": os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"],
           "require_approval": "never",
       }],
       input="Find an Actor that scrapes Google Maps reviews",
   )
   print(response.output_text)
   ```

## Tools

- `search-actors`
- `fetch-actor-details`
- `call-actor`
- `get-actor-run`
- `get-dataset-items`
- `get-key-value-store-record`
- `abort-actor-run`
- `search-apify-docs`
- `fetch-apify-docs`
- `apify--rag-web-browser`
- `apify--web-fetch`

## Example prompts

- "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"

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