what it is
A platform of ready-made scrapers and automation tools, called Actors, published by independent developers in a shared store. Apify runs a hosted MCP server, so an agent can search for an Actor, run it and read the results.
how I use it
Instagram, X, TikTok, LinkedIn and Reddit block ordinary fetches, and so do some company sites. When Claude needs one of those pages, it goes through Apify.