Apify MCP data presets for AI agents

Copy-paste MCP configs that give Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code (Copilot) or Claude Code a small, focused set of public-web-data tools instead of the whole Apify Store. Each bundle points the official hosted Apify MCP server at three specific Actors using its documented ?tools= URL parameter, so the agent sees exactly three dedicated tools plus the run/dataset helpers.

Disclosure: I (GitHub @AHMEDFOUAAD, Apify user ahmed.fouaad82) built and sell these Actors on Apify Store. They are paid per result (pay-per-event). The first results of every run are free (25 for most of these Actors; see each Store page's Pricing tab), then the listed price applies. You need your own Apify account (OAuth sign-in or your own API token); runs bill to your account, and Apify's free plan includes $5/month of usage. This repo only contains client configs: it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apify.

Each bundle folder has: cursor.mcp.json, vscode.mcp.json, token variants, claude_desktop_config.json (stdio bridge via mcp-remote) and a server.json (official MCP Registry entry).

Why presets?

• Fewer, sharper tools. A preselected endpoint exposes only the tools for one job, which keeps the agent's tool list short and its choices predictable (Apify recommends pinning tools in production).
• Fresh public data. Job boards, feeds, transcripts, PDFs, sitemaps and link status, fetched at run time, returned as structured JSON.
• Pay per result. No subscription for these Actors; the first results of every run are free.

Verified

On 2026-11-11 the three endpoints were initialized against https://mcp.apify.com (server apify-mcp-server 0.21.5) and tools/list returned the expected tools, for example for the jobs bundle:

ahmed-dot-fouaad82--greenhouse-public-jobs
ahmed-dot-fouaad82--lever-salary-jobs
ahmed-dot-fouaad82--ats-public-jobs
get-actor-run, get-dataset-items, get-key-value-store-record, abort-actor-run

The jobs bundle's claude_desktop_config.json was also run as-is through npx mcp-remote@latest (stdio bridge, Node 22): initialize and tools/list returned the same 7 tools.

A real tool call (ahmed-dot-fouaad82--rss-feed-reader, 3 items from the Hacker News RSS feed) returned SUCCEEDED with 3 dataset rows and 0 charged results (free slice). Re-run the check yourself with scripts/check_preset.py.

Notes from that test:

• Endpoints that preload an Actor require authentication (OAuth or token); with

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