// Call external services (MCP)
apify-mcp-serverv0.19.3
The Apify MCP server enables your AI agents to extract data from social media, search engines, maps, e-commerce sites, or any other website using thousands of ready-made scrapers, crawlers, and automation tools available on the Apify Store.
Open source Maintained For agents
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apify-mcp-server is the Apify MCP server enables your AI agents to extract data from social media, search engines, maps, e-commerce sites, or any other website using thousands of ready-made scrapers, crawlers, and automation tools available on the Apify Store.
Good for: Developers who want their agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor…) to call external services (mcp).
01How to start
- 1Read the official README for requirements and permissions.
- 2Install it from the official package registry:
npm install @iflow-mcp/apify-mcp-server - 3Add it to your agent’s MCP config — Claude Code:
claude mcp add; Cursor:.cursor/mcp.json; Codex:~/.codex/config.toml.
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