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Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://mcp.apify.com, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com"
    }
  }
}

Known issues

147 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

fix: server card and server.json claim authentication is always required

ℹ️ Maintainers note: there was already discussion about changing the server.json authorization metadata to always required in https://github.com/apify/apify-mcp-server/pull/1174. The main issues is that the server.json spec does not support setting that authentication is required under some condition and we advertise in the server.json only the main mcp.apify.com URL that currently requires token. The MCP server might not require auth when the ?tools= is specified with tools that do not

Read the thread · 2026-07-28 · closed · external user · 5 comments

[Bug]: Unable to connect

Server type

Local (stdio via npx @apify/actors-mcp-server)

MCP Client

Claude Desktop

Operating System

None

What happened?

says can't connect api tried so many times

Steps to reproduce

cant connect api

Node.js version

No response

Apify MCP Server version

No response

MCP server configuration

apify

Error logs

Read the thread · 2026-03-29 · closed · external user · 5 comments

[Bug]: Install Issue

Server type

Local (stdio via npx @apify/actors-mcp-server)

MCP Client

Claude Desktop

Operating System

macOS

What happened?

Won't let me install for some reason.

M3 Pro 16 Gigs Ram Tahoe 26.3.1

Under requirements: <!>macOS, Windows, Linux (is red) and won't let me move forward.

Thank you for any tips.

Joey

Steps to reproduce

Open claude desktop settings, integrations, find apify macOS, Windows, Linux is in red, cannot install.

Node.js version

_No respon

Read the thread · 2026-03-23 · closed · external user · 6 comments

Unable to connect to extension server. Please try disabling and re-enabling the extension.

Trying to connect Apify to claude and i am receiving the below message after installing apify-mcp-server

Unable to connect to extension server. Please try disabling and re-enabling the extension.

Read the thread · 2026-03-14 · closed · external user · 11 comments

MCP call-actor tool should handle dataset previews better

Hello Apify developers!

This is an opinionated suggestion based on my tests of the Apify MCP server.

Context: I'm trying to let Claude Code use everything Apify has to offer using the new plugins and skills Current feelings: really nice scraper discovery, scraper info. Oauth with the remote server is super clean, love it as no secrets are needed anywhere! During the testing with CC my feeling was that the MCP mainly expects the users to use apify-slash-rag-web-browser and not so much the

Read the thread · 2025-10-18 · closed · external user · 8 comments

Most recent

Connector description is empty, so capabilities are unknown before enabling

Problem

In the client's connector list, the Apify connector shows an empty description. Nothing states what it can do before it is enabled, so an agent recommends it on the name alone, the user enables it, and only then does the task turn out to be unsupported (deploying Actor source). The round trip is wasted on missing metadata alone.

Expected

The listing carries a description of what the connector covers (search and run Actors, read datasets and key-value stores, manage tasks) and wh

Read the thread · 2026-08-28 · open · external user · 0 comments

Map the 'apify-ai' MCP client name to APIFY_AI request-origin attribution

The Apify AI agent service (apify/apify-ai-agent, the Mastra service replacing Console AI chat's backend) connects to mcp.apify.com with MCP clientInfo.name = 'apify-ai'. getRequestOriginForClient() (src/utils/mcp_clients.ts) exact-matches APIFY_AI_CLIENT_NAME (apify-console-ai-chat), so the service's Actor runs are attributed as generic MCP instead of APIFY_AI in run.meta.origin and origin-filtered listings.

Ask: also map `apify-

Read the thread · 2026-08-26 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

MCP spec conformance: 5 requirement(s) violated (via @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test) — spec 2025-11-25

When run over stdio with npx @apify/actors-mcp-server and no APIFY_TOKEN set, the server prints APIFY_TOKEN is required but not set... to stderr and exits immediately, before ever completing an MCP handshake. Testing specifically against the older 2025-11-25 spec revision (this server negotiates both 2026-07-28 and 2025-11-25), @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test finds 5 requirement violations — fewer than under 2026-07-28 because this revision's suite doesn't have a separate server/discover

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · open · external user · 0 comments

MCP spec conformance: 10 requirement(s) violated (via @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test) — spec 2026-07-28

When run over stdio with npx @apify/actors-mcp-server and no APIFY_TOKEN set, the server prints APIFY_TOKEN is required but not set... to stderr and exits immediately, before ever completing an MCP handshake. Because of this, @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test's conformance suite (which starts the server as a plain stdio child process, with no credentials configured) can't get past initialize/server/discover at all, and 10 requirement checks fail as a result — mostly cascading consequences of "no

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · open · external user · 0 comments

initialize handshake blocks on unbounded network call, causing client-side timeout in shared-pool sessions (Claude Desktop Cowork/Code)

Environment Extension: apify-mcp-server (Claude Desktop extension ant.dir.gh.apify.apify-mcp-server) Version: 0.14.3 OS: Windows 11 Node: bundled/"built-in Node.js" runtime used by the Claude Desktop extension host Server args: dist/stdio.js --tools actors,docs,apify/rag-web-browser Client: Claude Desktop, specifically the separate server copy it spawns for Cowork/Code sessions ("shared-pool") Summary The MCP initialize request handler performs a live network call to the Apify platform API (fetc

Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · open · external user · 1 comment

feat: Add task tools to the default eval tools

Problem or motivation

The eval harness only loads a fixed set of tool categories, and the task tools had to be added to that list by hand for the new cases to work. They should be part of the default tools the evals run against so this doesn't have to be remembered per category.

What would good look like?

No response

Alternatives considered

No response

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

feat: add integration tests for Actor tasks

Problem or motivation

The task tools (get, create, update, publish, unpublish) shipped with unit tests only. There's no integration coverage in tests/integration/suite.ts, so nothing verifies they work against a real API. Requested during review of #1235

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

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