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[Apify MCP Is Now Available in Dust](https://apify.com/store/categories/mcp-servers)

May 28th, 2026

🎯 What is it?

Dust agents can now connect to Apify as a remote MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. This means your agents can trigger Apify Actors — pre-built web scraping and automation tools — directly from a Dust conversation, and pull the resulting data back in real time.

💡 Why is it useful?

Getting fresh data from the web or automating repetitive data-collection workflows has historically required custom-built scrapers, dedicated infrastructure, or manual copy-paste work. With Apify connected to Dust, agents can tap into thousands of ready-made scraping and automation tools on demand — no custom code, no glue scripts, no maintenance overhead.

⚙️ How does it work?

Apify is connected as a remote MCP server inside Dust. Once set up, agents can call any Apify Actor (a self-contained unit for scraping or automating tasks on a specific platform or website), wait for it to run, and fetch the structured output directly into the conversation. Authentication is handled via OAuth.

✨ Concrete Use Cases

Here's how you could use it:

  • Competitive intelligence: Ask an agent to scrape a competitor's pricing page or product listings on a weekly basis and summarize changes — no manual browsing required.

  • Lead enrichment: Trigger an Apify Actor to pull public company data, LinkedIn profiles, or job postings and feed the results directly into your CRM workflow through Dust.

  • Social media monitoring: Run an Actor to collect recent posts or mentions from a specific platform and have an agent analyze sentiment or flag trending topics.

📈 Benefits for you

Access to live, structured web data without engineering effort. Your agents become significantly more autonomous on research, monitoring, and data-gathering tasks — eliminating the round-trip between Dust and external scraping tools.

🚀 How to access it?

Available now for teams already using Apify. Connect it in Spaces → Tools, using OAuth to authenticate. Once added, it can be assigned to any agent in your workspace.