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Apify × Claude

Use the Apify MCP server
in Claude

Thousands of ready-made scrapers and automation actors, callable from your AI: websites, social platforms, maps, and more. This guide connects Apify to Claude (claude.ai and the Claude desktop app) through a governed gateway — one URL that also works in every other MCP client you use, with your rules and a full log attached.

Connect Apify free

Live-probed · Security-scanned · Connects with your API key

Setup: Apify in Claude

Claude adds MCP servers via custom connectors in Settings. The gateway route takes about two minutes:

  1. Create a free gate gateway and connect Apify to it from the verified directory (one click with your API key).
  2. Open claude.ai → Settings → Connectors and click 'Add custom connector'.
  3. Name it 'gate' and paste your gateway URL, then approve the authorization.
  4. Ask Claude something Apify can answer — the call runs through your gateway, with your rules applied and logged.

What to ask once it’s connected

“Scrape the latest posts from this Instagram profile.”
“Extract all Google Maps listings for cafes in Berlin Mitte.”
“Run a website crawler on this domain and list every page.”
“Pull the top posts from this subreddit for the last week.”

Why route it through a gateway

One URL, every client

The same Apify connection works in Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code too — no per-client re-wiring.

Rules before regret

Allow, ask, or block every tool Apify exposes — reads can flow freely while writes require your approval.

Every call logged

A plain-language activity log of everything Claude did with Apify — searchable, exportable, auditable.

Scanned and probed

Apify passed a live handshake probe and a security scan before listing — and drift detection watches it after you connect.

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Also available: Apify in Claude Code · Apify in ChatGPT · Apify in Cursor · Apify in VS Code