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Apify has launched MCP connectors, enabling its Actors to securely connect to external applications like Notion, GitHub and Slack using users' own accounts. The feature allows Actors to access user data, send results and run workflows across applications without accessing account credentials. MCP connectors work through the Model Context Protocol, an open standard for agent-to-tool interaction supported by services including Postgres, Git, Google Calendar and Slack. Users assign connectors to Actors in Apify Console, with access limited to specific tools. Actors can then perform integrated workflows, such as scraping reviews, analysing sentiment and opening tickets in external apps. The feature is now available to all Apify users. Apify operates the largest marketplace of web automation tools, with creators earning over $1 million monthly.

Announcing MCP connectors. Today, Apify is launching a new feature that elevates Apify Actors from anonymous data providers to full-fledged automation workhorses: MCP connectors. Jun 9, 2026 by With MCP connectors, you can now connect your Apify account with external apps like Notion, GitHub, or Slack, and securely share access to these apps with Actors, enabling them to access your business data, send results, or integrate external workflows. Background. Historically, Apify has been known as a platform for extracting public data from the web. Most Actors in Apify Store work on the open web, without any login or user account, fetching public data from all kinds of websites for all kinds of use cases. Such anonymous data collection is usually just a first input step of more complex workflows, which often interact with external apps under a login or user account. Until now, these workflows had to run outside of Apify, as it was difficult to provide Actors with authenticated access to external applications. With MCP connectors, Actors can now securely access third-party applications through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard protocol for agent-to-tool interaction. MCP is supported by a growing ecosystem of services, from Postgres and Git to Google Calendar and Slack, giving Actors new hands to act on the outer world. How connectors work. MCP connectors are a new kind of input for Actors. When setting up an Actor that supports this feature, Apify Console shows you a special input field where you can select an existing connector: Or add a new connector by entering a URL and authenticating to a remote MCP server. Once you start the Actor, it can access the remote MCP server through the connector and call its tools. Security considerations. MCP connectors give Actors access to external applications on behalf of the account you connect to, so an Actor acts with that account's permissions. To give an Actor access to an MCP connector, you need to manually assign the connector to the Actor input in Console. Even if an Actor knows a connector ID, it can't access it unless you manually assign it to its input. When you add a new connector, the authentication credentials to a remote MCP server are stored securely on your Apify account, encrypted at rest. All your connectors are shown under API & Integrations, where you can remove them or add new ones. You can also limit access to specific MCP tools for additional security. Note that Actors never get access to your credentials or authentication tokens of the MCP servers. They run developer-supplied code, so Apify treats the Actor runtime as untrusted: instead of handing credentials to the Actor, Apify gives it an MCP server proxy that forwards each request to the remote server and injects the credentials only on the Apify-managed side. A compromised or malicious Actor can still call the tools you allowed, but it can't read or exfiltrate the underlying credentials. Example Actors and use cases. 1. AI Code Sandbox. Give AI agents a safe space to run code without risking the host system. AI Code Sandbox runs in a containerized environment on the Apify platform so you can execute untrusted code safely. You can interact with it through a shell, REST API, MCP, and web UI. Use it for AI agent development, interactive debugging, and Apify Actor orchestration. 2. Email campaigns: Klaviyo Campaign Drafter. Klaviyo is one of the most used email platforms for e-commerce stores. If you're a store owner looking to send email campaigns on your products (based on launch, sales, awareness), try Klaviyo Campaign Drafter. Insert the product URL in the input field, and the Actor will generate the email and campaign for you, directly on Klaviyo, ready to send or schedule. It uses your tone of voice and brand colors as well. Example output below: 3. CI/CD pipelines and agentic AI: Universal MCP Connector. Run arbitrary workflows on Apify and publish results on any platform that supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Insert a prompt into Universal MCP Connector, and it will call the Actors it needs to get those results. It will then use an LLM to go through the outputs and place them on a platform of your choosing. 4. End-to-end travel planning: travel Budget Planner. Travel Budget Planner by Inovaflow is an orchestrator. It runs other specialized Apify Actors for you in the background and merges their results into one trip. Accommodation comes from its Airbnb & Booking Price Index; flights from Skyscanner Scraper. Optional sources add Airbnb / Booking.com listings, FlixBus + FlixTrain, and Rome2Rio. 5. Competitive intel: Google Ads Scraper. Turn Google's public ad disclosures into clean, structured JSON for competitive intelligence, brand monitoring, ad spend research, and political ad transparency analysis. Google Ads Scraper by Ayen Data collects advertiser data, ad creatives, impressions, audience targeting, and ad media from the Google Ads Transparency Center. 6. Trend analysis: Reddit Posts Scraper. Reddit Posts Scraper by Parseforge collects post data from any public subreddit, search query, or direct Reddit URL. Each record includes title, full text, author, score, upvote ratio, comment count, creation date, domain, flair, media flags, and awards. Runs return 1,000+ posts per minute on residential proxy, making it practical for trend analysis, content research, and ongoing monitoring at scale. Track market sentiment, monitor competitor activity, gather research data, or build a content idea pipeline with Facebook Group Posts Scraper by Goldmine. It extracts structured data from public Facebook groups (post content, authors, engagement metrics, timestamps, and media attachments) straight into a clean JSON dataset, an Apify schedule, or a Notion database your team and AI agents can query. New opportunities for Actor creators. MCP connectors open up a space for new, valuable use cases that were not possible before, in particular, AI agents. Apify is excited to see what you build and hear your feedback - just let Apify know on Discord. Largest marketplace of tools for AI

GWC announces strategic collaboration with Apify at Web Summit Qatar 2026. Collaboration integrates logistics scale with AIdriven data and automation to help e-commerce businesses scale and expand into new markets February 1, 2026 * GWC and Apify to share practical AI and MCP use cases with founders and digitalfirst businesses at Web Summit Qatar 2026. * Focus on reducing technical, operational, and goto-market barriers for high-growth e-commerce players. * GWC advances its role as an enabler of a connected ecommerce ecosystem spanning logistics, data, and technology. Doha / Qatar: Gulf Warehousing Company (GWC), one of the region's leading logistics providers, has marked its first participation at Web Summit Qatar 2026 by announcing a strategic collaboration with Apify, a European cloud platform specializing in web data extraction, automation, and AI-driven workflows. Announced during the summit taking place from 1 to 4 February in Doha, the collaboration brings together GWC's regional and global logistics capabilities with Apify's AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP) infrastructure to support e-commerce businesses as they enter new markets, scale operations, and accelerate growth across the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and other high-growth regions. The collaboration is designed to address persistent challenges faced by digital-first businesses, including market intelligence, demand discovery, competitive analysis, and cross-border execution. By combining logistics, data, and automation into a single operating model, the initiative aims to shorten time-to-market and reduce the technical and operational friction that often constrains early-stage and scaling e-commerce players. "At GWC, our role in e-commerce goes beyond logistics. Our objective is to help businesses grow, sell, and expand into new markets - and to scale with them as they scale. Through interoperability between logistics, data, and AI, we are building an integrated e-commerce ecosystem that enables faster expansion, smarter decision-making, and seamless cross-border execution". Jan Čurn, CEO of Apify, highlighted the strategic impact this partnership provides for e-commerce builders: "GWC understands this market and has the infrastructure. We know web data and automation. The combination gives e-commerce builders something neither of us could offer alone, from actionable market intelligence to the operational backbone needed to grow across borders." As part of the collaboration, GWC and Apify will jointly advance AI-powered workflows and MCP-based solutions tailored to real-world e-commerce use cases, supporting functions such as product discovery, demand analysis, lead generation, and cross-border go-to-market execution. The parties will also collaborate on knowledge-sharing initiatives, including founder-focused masterclasses and technical sessions at Web Summit Qatar, aimed at helping entrepreneurs and digital-first businesses understand how to leverage AI and automation to expand and scale sustainably. Through this initiative, GWC will provide regional market access, logistics integration, and go-to-market enablement, while Apify contributes its cloud platform, AI agents, and automation tools, including integrations with leading workflow platforms. Together, the collaboration reinforces GWC's strategy to position itself as a strategic enabler of cross-border e-commerce ecosystems that connect infrastructure, intelligence, and execution. As a first-time participant at Web Summit Qatar, GWC is showcasing how the integration of technology and AI into logistics can unlock new growth pathways for e-commerce and the digital economy, in alignment with the company's long-term growth strategy and Qatar National Vision 2030. Gulf Warehousing Company Q.P.S.C (GWC) is Qatar's number one logistics and supply chain solutions provider and a trusted industry leader across the GCC. Since its establishment in 2004, GWC has built a reputation for operational excellence, innovation, sustainability, and reliability. With a comprehensive regional network and advanced infrastructure, the company delivers seamless, technology-driven solutions covering warehousing, distribution, freight forwarding, transportation, and specialized logistics. GWC empowers businesses of all sizes, from entrepreneurs and SMEs to global multinationals, enabling seamless operations and sustainable growth. Notably, GWC was the first Regional Supporter and the Official Logistics Provider for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022(TM), showcasing its world-class capabilities on the global stage. Apify is a web data platform with a marketplace of 10,000+ ready-made scraping and automation tools. Users extract data from social media, e-commerce sites, search engines, and maps for competitive analysis, lead generation, and product research. Apify integrates with n8n, Make, Zapier, and LangChain, and its MCP support lets AI agents dynamically discover and use tools from the marketplace without custom code. Apify handles infrastructure, proxies, and scaling, so users focus on the data, not the pipeline. Disclaimer: The contents of this press release was provided from an external third party provider. This website is not responsible for, and does not control, such external content. This content is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis and has not been edited in any way. 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