Apify MCP Server - Barndoor Documentation
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Secure Official Remote Developer & Version Control
Summary: Official Apify remote MCP for discovering and running Apify Actors, reading Actor runs, retrieving storage outputs, and searching Apify documentation.
How Teams Use It: Teams can use the Apify MCP server to discover and run any of the thousands of Apify Actors — pre-built web scrapers and data extraction tools — directly through AI chat. Engineering and operations teams can automate tasks like monitoring competitor websites, scraping product listings, extracting news articles, and collecting research data without writing custom crawling infrastructure. The RAG Web Browser Actor further enables AI agents to search the web and return structured scraped content, making Apify a versatile data pipeline for both ad-hoc research and recurring extraction workflows.
Tools
| Tool Name | Tool Description | Tool Type |
|---|---|---|
| abort-actor-run | Stop an in-progress Apify Actor run, optionally allowing graceful shutdown. | Update |
| apify--rag-web-browser | Run Apify's RAG Web Browser Actor to search the web and return scraped content. | Create |
| call-actor | Run an Apify Actor and return run metadata plus links to generated outputs. | Create |
| fetch-actor-details | Retrieve Actor details, input schema, documentation, pricing, and output schema. | Read |
| fetch-apify-docs | Fetch full Apify documentation content from a documentation URL. | Read |
| get-actor-run | Retrieve detailed status and metadata for a specific Apify Actor run. | Read |
| get-dataset-items | Retrieve items from an Apify dataset with pagination and filtering support. | Read |
| get-key-value-store-record | Retrieve a record value from an Apify key-value store by key. | Read |
| search-actors | Search Apify Store for Actors that match a task or data extraction goal. | Read |
| search-apify-docs | Search Apify documentation for relevant pages and platform guidance. | Read |