webdata-tools-mcp

webdata-tools-mcp

An MCP server that gives AI agents twenty-one web-data tools: job postings (company career sites, remote jobs, startups on Wellfound, US tech jobs on Dice, Indeed, Naukri), hiring signals, Google News, research papers and patents, field trends and idea validation, Trustpilot and app-store reviews, Reddit mentions and buying-intent leads, website contacts, German and Austrian property listings, Shopify products and store analysis, trade-show exhibitor lists and upcoming events. Two ready-made prompts turn the research tools into an innovation analyst that works the same with any model.

Each tool runs a ready-made Apify Actor and returns clean JSON. You pay Apify per result (about $1–3 per 1,000 results); there is no subscription and nothing is sent anywhere except Apify.

Tools

Tool	What it returns	Cost (approx.)	Actor
search_google_news	News articles with the publisher's real URL, date, related coverage	$2 / 1,000 articles	google-news
find_hiring_companies	Which companies are hiring for given roles (buying-intent signal)	1¢ per company with a signal	hiring-signals
get_company_jobs	All open jobs from career pages or company names (13 job-board systems: Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, Rippling, …)	$1 / 1,000 jobs	jobs-harvester
find_remote_jobs	Remote jobs from company job boards plus the Remote OK, Jobicy, Working Nomads and Himalayas feeds	$2 / 1,000 jobs	remote-jobs-scraper
search_startup_jobs	Startup jobs on Wellfound by role and city: salary and equity, startup size and pitch	$2 / 1,000 jobs	wellfound-jobs-scraper
search_tech_jobs	US tech jobs on Dice: salary, employer type, Easy Apply, remote flag	$0.55 / 1,000 jobs	dice-jobs-scraper
search_indeed_jobs	Indeed listings in 9 countries	$3 / 1,000 jobs	indeed-jobs
search_naukri_jobs	Naukri.com jobs (India): full description, salary in rupees, experience, rating	$1.50 / 1,000 jobs	naukri-jobs-scraper
get_trustpilot_reviews	Reviews, TrustScore and company profile	$0.50 / 1,000 reviews	trustpilot-reviews
get_app_reviews	App Store and Google Play reviews	$0.20 / 1,000 reviews	app-reviews
search_reddit	Reddit posts and comments by keyword or subreddit, tagged with buying intent	$1 / 1,000 items	reddit-monitor
find_reddit_leads	Reddit posts asking for a tool like yours, seeking a competitor alternative, comparing or complaining	$2 / 1,000 leads + $0.10 / 1,000 posts read	reddit-lead-finder
search_research	Papers, preprints and patents from OpenAlex, arXiv, PubMed and Europe PMC, merged; newest or most influential first, with field-normalized impact	$3 / 1,000 results	research-radar
analyze_field	A technology field's opportunity score with reasons, growth and momentum, industry participation and top companies, leading countries, institutions and funders, rising topics; several fields ranked	$0.03 / field	innovation-radar
validate_idea	How new or crowded an idea is, who is working on it, and the closest prior work	$0.03 / idea	innovation-radar
find_website_contacts	Emails, phones, socials from websites	$2 / 1,000 sites with contacts	contact-details
search_german_property_listings	Rent/buy listings in Germany and Austria (ImmoScout24)	$1 / 1,000 listings	immobilienscout24-scraper
get_shopify_products	Prices, discounts, stock, variants from Shopify stores	$1 / 1,000 products	shopify-products
analyze_shopify_stores	Store location, currency, catalog size and snapshot, e-mails, phones, socials	$4 / 1,000 stores	shopify-store-analyzer
get_trade_show_exhibitors	Trade-show exhibitors: booth, email, phone, website, address (91 shows or any supported exhibitor-list link; changes-only monitoring)	$2 / 1,000 exhibitors	exhibition-scraper
find_events	Upcoming events from Luma, Eventbrite, Meetup: venue, organiser, hosts, tickets, attendees	$1 / 1,000 events	events-scraper

Every tool also takes an optional extra_input object for any other field the Actor documents. Every result comes back as text and as structured content (tool, count, shown, truncated, items), and every tool is marked read-only, so clients can run it without asking.

More about the tools: https://tacps126.github.io/mcp.html

Prompts and agent skill

Two ready-made prompts turn the research tools into an analyst, whichever model you use (Claude, GPT, Gemini, a local model): the evidence, the reading guide and the answer shape are fixed, so results stay comparable.

Prompt	What it does
field-opportunity-analysis	Runs analyze_field on your fields, then writes ranked opportunities: what to build, for whom, why now, capital needed, who to talk to
idea-validation	Runs validate_idea, then assesses novelty, closest prior work, timing, who is already there, capital, risks and next steps

For agents that load skills (Claude Code, Codex and others), copy skills/innovation-analyst into your skills folder.

Setup

• Create a free Apify account and copy your API token from Console → Settings → API & Integrations.
• Add the server to your client. The token goes in APIFY_TOKEN.

Claude Desktop, one click: download webdata-tools-mcp-<version>.mcpb from the latest release and open it. Claude Desktop installs it and asks for your Apify token.

Claude Desktop / Cursor / Windsurf (mcpServers config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "webdata": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "webdata-tools-mcp"],
      "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "<your Apify token>" }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code:

claude mcp add webdata -e APIFY_TOKEN=<your Apify token> -- npx -y webdata-tools-mcp

Requires Node.js 18 or newer.

Releases are tagged and published by CI from main (.github/workflows/release.yml).

Try it

• "Which of these companies are hiring data engineers right now? https://boards.greenhouse.io/stripe, https://jobs.lever.co/spotify"
• "Find remote senior engineer jobs open to people in Canada posted this week."
• "Who on Reddit is looking for an alternative to HubSpot this month?"
• "Analyze these Shopify stores and give me their country, product count and contact e-mail: allbirds.com, gymshark.com"
• "Show the 1 and 2 star Trustpilot reviews of example.com from the last 30 days and group the complaints."
• "Find news from the last 7 days about open-source LLM licensing, with the real publisher links."
• "What should a seed-stage founder build in sodium-ion batteries? Compare it with solid-state." (field-opportunity-analysis prompt)
• "Find the most influential papers of the last three years on retrieval augmented generation."
• "Get contact emails for these 20 agency websites." (use only for lawful business outreach)

Settings

Environment variable	Default	Meaning
APIFY_TOKEN	required	Your Apify API token
WEBDATA_MAX_CHARGE_USD	0.5	Spend cap per tool call; Apify stops the run when it is reached
WEBDATA_TIMEOUT_SECS	150	How long one call may run (30 to 300)

Cost safety

• Every call is capped at $0.50 of Apify spend (WEBDATA_MAX_CHARGE_USD changes it). Apify stops the run when the cap is reached.
• max_items defaults to small numbers (20–100) and has a hard maximum per tool.
• Long text fields are shortened to 600 characters, and one result is limited to about 60,000 characters, so a call cannot flood the agent's context.

No install: Apify's hosted MCP server

You can also use Apify's own server with these Actors selected, with nothing to install:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=tacps126/google-news,tacps126/hiring-signals,tacps126/trustpilot-reviews" }
  }
}

It signs you in with OAuth. The tools take the Actors' raw input fields instead of the simplified arguments above.

Development

npm install
npm test                                  # offline: mapping, errors, size limits, MCP handshake
node scripts/sync-actor-inputs.mjs        # refresh test/fixtures from the published Actors
APIFY_TOKEN=... node scripts/smoke.mjs    # live check, a few cents

test/fixtures/actor-inputs.json lists the input fields of each published Actor; the tests fail if a tool sends a field the Actor does not accept.

Responsible use

The Actors read publicly available pages. You are responsible for following each site's terms and the law that applies to you (GDPR, CAN-SPAM) when you use the data, especially contact details.

Listed on

Also on npm, the official MCP Registry (io.github.tacps126/webdata-tools-mcp), and Smithery.

License

MIT