Apify MCP Server

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answering

Apify is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. Last commit 17 Sep 2026.

Apify MCP — run web-scraping Actors and fetch their dataset results.

Uptime history 42 hours of history · worst hour 75%

42 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

185 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 17 Sep 2026

Apify does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 99.4% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add apify --transport http https://gateway.pipeworx.io/apify/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/apify/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.apify]
url = "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/apify/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/apify/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/apify/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://gateway.pipeworx.io/apify/mcp	streamable-http	answering	101 ms	3 min ago

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Apify — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Is Apify working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 185 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Apify?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Apify need an API key?

No. Apify completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Apify?

It answers our handshake in 185 ms on average, which is faster than 69% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Apify open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.