Refinery MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 55 installs a week from npm. Last commit 28 Jun 2026.
Clean raw HTML into LLM-ready text before agents spend tokens.
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claude mcp add refinery-mcp -e 'APIFY_TOKEN=<APIFY_TOKEN>' -- npx -y @larelabs/refinery-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"refinery-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@larelabs/refinery-mcp"
],
"env": {
"APIFY_TOKEN": "<APIFY_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.refinery-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@larelabs/refinery-mcp"]
env = { APIFY_TOKEN = "<APIFY_TOKEN>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"refinery-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@larelabs/refinery-mcp"
],
"env": {
"APIFY_TOKEN": "<APIFY_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"refinery-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@larelabs/refinery-mcp"
],
"env": {
"APIFY_TOKEN": "<APIFY_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}Put your own value in place of
<APIFY_TOKEN> (Apify API token for the Refinery HTML cleaner actor).
The author’s registry entry marks it as required.
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