Home / MCP
Use the scrapers from AI assistants (MCP)
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the standard way AI assistants call outside tools. Each actor here becomes one tool; runs are billed to your Apify account at the actor’s normal price.
Apify’s hosted MCP server (works today)
All 19 actors as tools. Remove the ones you do not need: fewer tools keep the assistant’s choices clear.
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=arcadium/agoda-tripcom-reviews,arcadium/ats-lookup,arcadium/booking-reviews,arcadium/capterra-products,arcadium/capterra-reviews,arcadium/career-site-jobs,arcadium/eu-car-listings,arcadium/google-hotel-reviews,arcadium/google-hotels,arcadium/google-news,arcadium/google-trends,arcadium/hotel-reputation,arcadium/reputation-monitor,arcadium/seek-jobs,arcadium/software-reviews,arcadium/tripadvisor-reviews,arcadium/trustradius-reviews,arcadium/youtube-transcripts,arcadium/youtube-videos",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}
Local server (stdio)
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@apify/actors-mcp-server",
"--actors",
"arcadium/agoda-tripcom-reviews,arcadium/ats-lookup,arcadium/booking-reviews,arcadium/capterra-products,arcadium/capterra-reviews,arcadium/career-site-jobs,arcadium/eu-car-listings,arcadium/google-hotel-reviews,arcadium/google-hotels,arcadium/google-news,arcadium/google-trends,arcadium/hotel-reputation,arcadium/reputation-monitor,arcadium/seek-jobs,arcadium/software-reviews,arcadium/tripadvisor-reviews,arcadium/trustradius-reviews,arcadium/youtube-transcripts,arcadium/youtube-videos"
],
"env": {
"APIFY_TOKEN": "<APIFY_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}
Arcadium Data scraping MCP endpoint
Our own scraping-only endpoint is planned at https://mcp.arcadiumdata.io/scrapers and is not live yet. Until then, use Apify’s server above; it runs the same actors.
What an agent gets
- Flat JSON rows with a
rowTypefield; filter on it first. - Free error rows with a
code(for examplenot_found,blocked) so the agent can tell “nothing there” from “try again later”. - Documented fields on every actor page and in llms.txt.