How to connect Apify MCP to Claude Cowork

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks. This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Apify MCP account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to scrape product prices from competitor pages, run crawler actor for blog URLs, export Apify dataset items to JSON, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Apify MCP account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to scrape product prices from competitor pages, run crawler actor for blog URLs, export Apify dataset items to JSON, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Apify MCP to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Apify MCP account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Apify MCP or give it any Apify MCP-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Scrape product prices from competitor pages"
  • "Run crawler actor for blog URLs"
  • "Export Apify dataset items to JSON"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Apify MCP account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Apify MCP through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

What is the Apify MCP MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Apify MCP MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Apify MCP account. It provides structured and secure access so your agent can perform Apify MCP operations on your behalf.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Apify MCP action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Apify-slash-rag-web-browser

This tool calls the Actor "apify/rag-web-browser" and retrieves its output results.

Call-actor

Call any Actor from the Apify Store.

Fetch-actor-details

Get detailed information about an Actor by its ID or full name (format: "username/name", e.

Fetch-apify-docs

Fetch the full content of an Apify or Crawlee documentation page by its URL.

Get-actor-output

Retrieve the output dataset items of a specific Actor run using its datasetId.

Get-actor-run

Get detailed information about a specific Actor run by runId.

Search-actors

Search the Apify Store to FIND and DISCOVER what scraping tools/Actors exist for specific platforms or use cases.

Search-apify-docs

Search Apify and Crawlee documentation using full-text search.

FRAMEWORKS

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CLI

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Google ADK

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LangChain

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LlamaIndex

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CrewAI

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Apify MCP MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Apify MCP tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Apify MCP and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Apify MCP tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Apify MCP scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Apify MCP data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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