webdata-tools-mcp

webdata-tools-mcp

Smithery

An MCP server that gives AI agents eleven web-data tools: job postings, hiring signals, Google News, Trustpilot and app-store reviews, Reddit mentions, website contacts, German and Austrian property listings, Shopify products and trade-show exhibitor lists.

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 (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, …)	$1 / 1,000 jobs	jobs-harvester
search_indeed_jobs	Indeed listings in 9 countries	$3 / 1,000 jobs	indeed-jobs
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	$1 / 1,000 items	reddit-monitor
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
get_trade_show_exhibitors	Trade-show exhibitors: booth, email, phone, website, address (76 shows or any supported exhibitor-list link)	$2 / 1,000 exhibitors	exhibition-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

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 / 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.

Try it

• "Which of these companies are hiring data engineers right now? https://boards.greenhouse.io/stripe, https://jobs.lever.co/spotify"
• "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."
• "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.

License

MIT