Apify MCP Server (Official)

Official Apify MCP server enabling AI agents to run Apify Actors — a marketplace of 2,000+ pre-built web scraping and automation tools for Google Search, Amazon, social media, and many other platforms.

Evaluated Mar 06, 2026 (0d ago) vcurrent

Homepage ↗ Repo ↗ Developer Tools apify web-scraping mcp-server official automation actors data-extraction playwright

⚙ Agent Friendliness

/ 100

Can an agent use this?

🔒 Security

/ 100

Is it safe for agents?

⚡ Reliability

/ 100

Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality

Documentation

Error Messages

Auth Simplicity

Rate Limits

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement

100

Auth Strength

Scope Granularity

Dep. Hygiene

Secret Handling

HTTPS enforced. API token lacks scopes — full account access. Data passes through Apify. SOC 2, GDPR.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA

Version Stability

Breaking Changes

Error Recovery

Best When

An agent needs structured data from specific platforms (Google, LinkedIn, Amazon, social media) and Apify has a pre-built Actor for that source.

Avoid When

You only need to scrape a single website — simpler tools (Firecrawl, Browserbase) are more cost-effective.

Use Cases

• Running Apify Actors for web scraping tasks from agent workflows
• Extracting structured data from Google Search, LinkedIn, Amazon via actors
• Social media data extraction (Twitter, Instagram, TikTok scrapers)
• Running custom Apify Actors for specialized data extraction
• Web crawling at scale using Apify's cloud infrastructure

Not For

• Simple website scraping — use Firecrawl or Browserbase for that
• Real-time data requiring sub-second freshness
• Teams not needing the breadth of Apify's Actor marketplace

Interface

REST API

Yes

GraphQL

gRPC

MCP Server

Yes ↗

SDK

Yes

Webhooks

Yes

OpenAPI Spec ↗

Authentication

Methods: api_token

OAuth: No Scopes: No

Single Apify API token via APIFY_TOKEN. No scope granularity — token grants full account access including billing.

Pricing

Model: usage-based

Free tier: Yes

Requires CC: No

Actor marketplace has varying per-use pricing on top of platform credits. Credit-based system can make cost unpredictable for agents.

Agent Metadata

Pagination

cursor

Idempotent

Partial

Retry Guidance

Documented

Known Gotchas

⚠ Actor runs are async — agents must poll for completion or set up webhooks
⚠ Different actors have different input schemas — agents must know the actor's inputs
⚠ Platform credits + actor-specific costs can make budgeting complex
⚠ Some actors are community-maintained — quality varies significantly
⚠ Anti-bot detection affects even well-maintained actors — results not guaranteed
⚠ Actor outputs vary in format — inspect schema before processing

Alternatives

firecrawl-mcp browserbasehq-mcp-browserbase scrapegraphai-scrapegraph-mcp

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.