What can an AI teammate do with Apify MCP?

An Apify MCP AI teammate can discover and call any Apify Actor as a native tool - scraping websites, extracting structured data, running automation workflows, and retrieving results, all within a single reasoning run. It uses the Model Context Protocol so there is no custom integration code. Write actions like running actors require your approval.

What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?

MCP is an open standard developed by Anthropic that lets AI models call external tools and services in a structured, consistent way. Apify's MCP server implements this standard, turning every Apify Actor into a callable tool the AI can discover and invoke natively during reasoning.

Do I need an Apify account to use this integration?

Yes. You need an Apify account and API token to authenticate with the Apify MCP server. Free and paid Apify plans both work - actor usage is billed through your Apify account based on compute consumed.

Which Apify Actors are available as MCP tools?

The Apify MCP server exposes a curated set of popular actors (such as Google Search Scraper, Website Content Crawler, and others) as well as any actors you have saved to your account. Your teammate can call the list-tools action at runtime to see what is currently available.

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AI Teammate for Apify MCP

An AI teammate that scrapes the web and runs automation actors using natural language.

Your AI teammate for Apify MCP connects to Apify's Model Context Protocol server, which exposes Apify Actors as callable tools directly inside the AI reasoning loop. It can discover available scraping tools, inspect their schemas, fetch actor documentation, run web scrapers, trigger automation workflows, and retrieve results, all from a single task. Write actions like running actors or saving results require your approval.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI models call external tools natively, without custom glue code. Apify's MCP server exposes its entire catalog of web scraping and automation actors as first-class tools, so your AI teammate can scrape Google, extract structured data from any website, or run multi-step automations as naturally as writing a sentence.

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What your AI teammate can do with Apify MCP

Read-only actions run automatically. Write actions require your approval.

Read-only actions

list available tools

Discover all Apify Actors currently exposed as MCP tools

get tool schema

Inspect the input schema and parameters for any Apify Actor

get actor documentation

Fetch the readme and usage docs for a specific Apify Actor

get run result

Retrieve the output dataset from a completed actor run

Write actions (require approval)

run scraping tool

Trigger a web scraping actor with custom input parameters

run automation actor

Execute a multi-step automation workflow on Apify's infrastructure

save results

Persist actor output to an Apify dataset for later retrieval

Example workflows with Apify MCP

Real tasks you can run on a schedule or on demand.

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scrape google search results and summarize top findings in a slack message

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run a product price monitoring actor on a schedule and alert on changes

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extract structured data from any website using natural language tool calls

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chain multiple apify actors together inside a single AI reasoning run

How to connect Apify MCP

Create a free m8tes account.

Connect Apify MCP

Click Connect and complete the OAuth flow or enter your API key.

Create a task

Give your AI teammate a task that uses Apify MCP. It handles the rest.

Apify MCP AI teammate: FAQ

Common questions about using an AI teammate with Apify MCP.

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