Apify

live Web ScrapingDeveloper Tools

Apify MCP — run pre-built or custom scraping Actors and pull their datasets: generic web scraping, RAG site-crawl-to-markdown, and more. BYO Apify token.

3 tools

0ms auth

free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

apify_run_actor

Run an Apify Actor (a cloud scraping/automation program) and get its dataset results in a single blocking call. The run is capped at 300 seconds. Pass the Actor input as an `input` object — its shape

No parameters required.

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apify_scrape_url

Scrape a single web page (or crawl from it) and get clean, RAG-friendly markdown content. Convenience wrapper around the "apify~website-content-crawler" Actor. Example: apify_scrape_url({ url: "https:

No parameters required.

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apify_dataset_items

Fetch items from an existing Apify dataset (e.g. the output of a prior Actor run). Example: apify_dataset_items({ datasetId: "abc123", limit: 50, _apiKey: "your-token" }).

No parameters required.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools

bash

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/apify/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Call a tool

bash

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/apify/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"apify_run_actor","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("apify_run_actor", {});

ask_pipeworx

// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("apify mcp — run pre-built or custom scraping actors and pull their datasets: generic web scraping, rag site-crawl-to-markdown, and more");

Related packs

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MCP Config

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-apify": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/apify/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}