How to connect Apify to Cursor

1. 1. Enable Apify in Metorial

   In your Metorial portal, enable the Apify MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.

2. 2. Add Metorial to your MCP config

   Use ~/.cursor/mcp.json for every project, or .cursor/mcp.json for one.

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   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "metorial": {
         "url": "<your-magic-mcp-url>"
       }
     }
   }

3. 3. Sign in

   Open Customize in the sidebar, find Metorial and sign in to load Apify tools.

• Run Actor: Start an Apify Actor run.
• Manage Task: Create, get, update, delete, list, or run Apify Actor Tasks.
• Manage Actor: Get, create, update, or delete an Apify Actor owned by the authenticated account.
• List Runs: List Apify Actor runs either account-wide or for a specific Actor.
• Abort Run: Abort a running Apify Actor execution.
• Manage Webhook: Create, get, update, test, delete, or list Apify webhooks for Actor run and build events.
• Get Dataset Items: Retrieve or export items from an Apify dataset.
• Manage Schedule: Create, get, update, delete, or list Apify schedules that run Actors or Actor Tasks on a cron expression.
• Manage Key-Value Store: Manage Apify key-value stores and records.
• Get Run: Retrieve an Apify Actor run by ID, optionally including JSON dataset items or the run log as a Slate attachment.
• Push Dataset Items: Append JSON objects to an Apify dataset.
• Build Actor: Start an Apify Actor build, retrieve build details, or list builds for an Actor.
• List Actors: List Actors owned by the authenticated Apify account.
• Manage Request Queue: Manage Apify request queues and queued crawler requests.
• Search Store Actors: Search public Apify Store Actors.
• And 4 more on the Apify MCP server page.

• Cursor picks MCP tools automatically when they are relevant, including in Plan Mode. Name a Apify tool to steer it.
• Cursor asks for approval before it uses an MCP tool by default. Click the arrow next to the tool name to check the arguments first.
• Switch the Metorial server off from Customize in the sidebar without removing it.
• Cursor shows each Apify tool response in chat, with expandable views of the arguments and the result.

Metorial connects but tools are missing or failing

Open the Output panel (Cmd+Shift+U), choose MCP Logs, and look for authentication or connection errors.

Your company blocks the server

Enterprise admins approve remote servers in Team Settings, then MCP Configuration. Ask them to add a URL entry for your Metorial URL.

Cursor asks before every tool call

That is the default. Allowlist the Metorial tools you trust in your Run Mode settings to run them without a prompt.

Based on the Cursor MCP documentation.