MCP (Model Context Protocol)

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard developed by Anthropic that enables AI models to connect to external tools and data sources through a standardized interface.

Apify's MCP server (mcp.apify.com) exposes 39,000+ web scrapers as MCP tools, allowing AI agents like Claude to scrape any website on demand.

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AI Agent

An AI agent is an autonomous AI system that can perceive its environment, make decisions, and take actions to accomplish goals — including browsing the web, running tools, and calling APIs.

Actor (Apify)

An Apify Actor is a cloud-hosted, serverless scraping or automation program.