Apify's store has 5,000+ ready-made scrapers, called Actors, for Google Maps, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, Amazon and more. The official MCP server lets the agent find the right Actor, run it and read the results. You don't write or maintain a scraper.
In Claude Code or claude.ai, it answers what your own tools can't: competitors' ads, what people say about them on Reddit, their posts and reviews. In your own product, pin the Actors you need and your agent can generate leads from Google Maps, pull Instagram or TikTok profiles on demand or monitor reviews.
The most used Actors for marketing work, from Apify's store (October 2026):
| Actor | Gets you | Users last 30 days | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Profiles, posts, reels, comments | 50K | 4.7 | |
| Businesses with contacts and reviews | 40K | 4.7 | |
| Videos, profiles, hashtags | 28K | 4.8 | |
| Posts by keyword, no login cookies | 8K | 5.0 | |
| Competitors' active ads and creatives | 8K | 4.0 | |
| Posts and comments by keyword or subreddit | 7.7K | 4.6 |
Alternatives
| MCP | Pick it when | Popularity |
|---|---|---|
| The site blocks scrapers and you need proxies and unblocking built in | 2.7K ★, official | |
| You already use Oxylabs proxies and its scraper APIs | Official | |
| You need any page as clean text, not data from a specific platform | 7.6K ★, official |
Watch out
- Actors are built by the community and quality varies. Every G2 review scraper we checked rated 3 or lower or had a few dozen users.
- Pin the Actors you trust with
?tools=. Left to discover on its own, the agent may pick an expensive or low-quality Actor.
- The free plan includes $5 of usage a month, and most Actors charge per result.
Install
In Claude Code:
Terminal
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claude mcp add --transport http apify https://mcp.apify.com
Run
/mcp and sign in to Apify with OAuth. In claude.ai, add it under Settings, Connectors.In your product, attach a hosted URL with the Actors pinned, for example
https://mcp.apify.com?tools=apify/google-search-scraper, and pass your Apify API token as the Bearer token (Claude API authorization_token or an AI SDK header).More in Top MCP servers for web data.
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