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#### Claude Desktop
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Configure Claude Desktop to recognize the MCP server.
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Make sure that you enable developer mode in Claude Desktop to access the configuration settings.
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To configure Claude Desktop to work with the MCP server, follow these steps. For a detailed guide, refer to the [Claude Desktop Users Guide](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/user).
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1. Open your Claude Desktop configuration and edit the following file:
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1. Download Claude for desktop
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- Available for Windows and macOS.
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- For Linux users, you can build a Debian package using this [unofficial build script](https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian).
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2. Open the Claude Desktop app and enable **Developer Mode** from the top-left menu bar.
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3. Once enabled, open **Settings** (also from the top-left menu bar) and navigate to the **Developer Option**, where you'll find the **Edit Config** button
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4. Open configuration file and edit the following file:
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- On macOS: `~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`
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- On Windows: `%APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`
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- On Linux: `~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`
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Alternatively, you can use the following command to select one or more Apify Actors:
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Alternatively, you can use `actors` argument to select one or more Apify Actors:
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"mcpServers": {
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"actors-mcp-server": {
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"command": "npx",
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"args": [
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"-y", "@apify/actors-mcp-serves",
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"-y", "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
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"--actors", "lukaskrivka/google-maps-with-contact-details,apify/instagram-scraper"
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5. Restart Claude Desktop
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- Look for the 🔌 icon to confirm that the Exa server is connected.
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3. Examples
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6. Open the Claude Desktop chat and ask "What Apify Actors I can use?"
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![Claude-desktop-with-Actors-MCP-server](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apify/actors-mcp-server/refs/heads/master/docs/claude-dekstop.png)
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7. Examples
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You can ask Claude to perform web searches, such as:
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You can ask Claude to perform tasks, such as:
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Find and analyze recent research papers about LLMs.
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Find top 10 best Italian restaurants in San Francisco.

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