Interact with the Apify platform to discover and run web scraping Actors from Apify Store, access datasets and results, and enable AI coding assistants to access Apify documentation and tutorials.
Install
Section titled “Install”Add Apify to your zone and connect it to your MCP client.
Step 1 - Install in Keycard Console
Section titled “Step 1 - Install in Keycard Console”-
In your zone’s Keycard Console, go to Applications -> Add Application -> Explore MCP Servers.
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Search for
Apifyand click Install. -
A browser tab opens to Apify’s OAuth consent screen. Sign in and approve the requested permissions.
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You’re redirected back. Apify appears on the Applications page with a Keycard MCP Gateway URL.
Step 2 - Connect your MCP client
Section titled “Step 2 - Connect your MCP client”On the Applications page, click Add to Coding Agent next to Apify and pick how you want to install:
- Cursor - opens a deeplink that hands the MCP config straight to Cursor. Click Install inside Cursor to finish.
- Claude Code - opens a dialog with a
claude mcp addcommand. Pick a scope (User, Project, or Local), then copy and run the command in your terminal. - Install manually - reveals the Server Name and Server URL to paste into any other MCP-compatible client.
Once connected, Apify’s tools are available to the agent, scoped to whoever signs in to your zone.
What Apify can do once installed.
Apify provides 8 tools:
- search-actors
- Search Apify Store for scraping tools and Actors
- fetch-actor-details
- Get detailed information about an Actor by its ID or full name (format: "username/name", e.
- call-actor
- Run an Apify Actor from the Store
- get-actor-run
- Get details of a specific Actor run by ID
- get-actor-output
- Get output dataset items from an Actor run
- search-apify-docs
- Search Apify and Crawlee documentation
- fetch-apify-docs
- Fetch full content of a documentation page by URL
- apify-slash-rag-web-browser
- This tool calls the Actor "apify/rag-web-browser" and retrieves its output results.
Next steps
Section titled “Next steps”What to do once Apify is installed.
Now do this
- Confirm the gateway works by asking your AI client to call one of the Apify tools above.
Recommended
- Decide who can use it - write access policies scoped to the Apify resource so only the right users and agents reach the tools.
- Watch the calls - every tool call lands in your audit log with user identity, resource, and policy decision.