How do I install Kanto Labs?

Copy the stdio config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.

Does Kanto Labs need an API key?

The publisher lists these environment variables: APIFY_TOKEN, KANTO_MAX_CHARGE_USD.

What transport does Kanto Labs use?

Kanto Labs runs locally over stdio.

When was Kanto Labs last checked?

Last checked 2026-11-08. Web data, SEO, domain, company, trends, OCR, document and image tools for AI assistants via Apify.

Kanto Labs MCP server

Power your agent

Add this server

The publisher's own command. Not a PlugMCP endpoint.

Add to Cursor Add to VS Code Run on PlugMCP

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

Local command

mcpb https://github.com/kanto-labs/kanto-labs-mcp/releases/download/v1.2.0/kanto-labs-mcp.mcpb

Credentials from the publisher

APIFY_TOKEN — Your Apify API token (console.apify.com/settings/integrations). Actor runs are billed to this account.
KANTO_MAX_CHARGE_USD — Default spending cap per tool call in USD, enforced by Apify (default 1.00).

Claude Code has no install link for a local command. Copy the command below and run it in a terminal.

shClaude Code

1APIFY_TOKEN=<secret> KANTO_MAX_CHARGE_USD=<value> claude mcp add io.github.akhiyugo-kanto-labs-mcp -- mcpb https://github.com/kanto-labs/kanto-labs-mcp/releases/download/v1.2.0/kanto-labs-mcp.mcpb

Run in a terminal.

jsonClaude Desktop

1{2  "mcpServers": {3    "io.github.akhiyugo-kanto-labs-mcp": {4      "command": "mcpb",5      "args": [6        "https://github.com/kanto-labs/kanto-labs-mcp/releases/download/v1.2.0/kanto-labs-mcp.mcpb"7      ],8      "env": {9        "APIFY_TOKEN": "<secret>",10        "KANTO_MAX_CHARGE_USD": "<value>"11      }12    }13  }14}

claude_desktop_config.json

Local · mcpbPublisher installStep-by-step: add this in Claude

Remote URL or a command on your machine? How the two installs differ

Run on PlugMCP

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

A new server you create. It is not this listing's official endpoint. Use the publisher install when you want their URL and their credentials.

Launch

Server facts

Local

Transport: stdio
Version: 1.2.0

Tools

No tool list yet. Remote servers get one after the first health check.

FAQ

Questions

Kanto Labs MCP server

An MCP server that gives AI assistants (Claude, Cursor, VS Code Copilot and any other MCP client) 14 web, data and media tools, backed by Kanto Labs' actors on the Apify Store:

Tool	What it does	Price
`detect_website_tech_stack`	Detect the technologies a website runs on: CMS, ecommerce, frameworks, analytics, CDN, hosting (7,600+ fingerprints).	$0.003 per website
`convert_document_to_markdown`	Convert PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, EPUB, HTML and more from a URL to Markdown, with page/word counts and optional RAG chunks.	$0.004 per document
`audit_website_seo`	On-page SEO audit: 0-100 score and prioritized issues, robots.txt, sitemap, llms.txt and AI-crawler checks, optional broken links and crawl.	$0.004 per page
`extract_text_from_image`	OCR text from images, screenshots, photos and scanned PDFs, in reading order with confidence and optional line boxes.	$0.003 per image or PDF page ($0.008 with quality "accurate")
`lookup_domain`	Domain RDAP/WHOIS, DNS records, SSL certificate expiry and SPF/DKIM/DMARC email security grade.	$0.003 per domain
`extract_video_frames`	Extract scene-change or evenly spaced frames from video files, with public image links, timestamps and a free contact sheet.	$0.002 per frame
`download_images`	Download every image from web pages or image links, de-duplicated and filtered, with public download URLs.	$0.002 per image
`check_domain_authority`	0-100 domain authority from the open Common Crawl web graph (133M domains): web rank, PageRank rank, top-% percentile and monthly trend.	$0.001 per domain scored (unranked domains free)
`enrich_company` (coming soon)	Company profile from a domain or name: logo, description, social profiles, app links and key pages, plus industry, HQ, founding year, employees, revenue and ticker from Wikidata.	$0.003 per company enriched
`upscale_image` (coming soon)	Upscale images 2x or 4x with Real-ESRGAN (photo or anime model), transparency kept, with public download links.	$0.01 per image ($0.06 per large image with allowLargeImages)
`get_topic_trends` (coming soon)	Interest over time for topics on a shared 0-100 scale (a Google Trends alternative) from official Wikipedia pageviews since 2015: peak, trend, spikes and interest by language.

Failed or unreachable inputs are not charged.

Coming soon: enrich_company, upscale_image, get_topic_trends, get_trending_topics, check_website_traffic_rank, search_free_images are listed already, but their actors are not yet public on the Apify Store; until they are, calls to them return an "actor not yet public" error (nothing is charged).

How billing works

The server is free and open source (MIT). Each tool call runs the matching actor on Apify with your own Apify API token, so the actor's pay-per-event price is billed to your Apify account (Apify's free plan includes monthly credit). There is no Kanto Labs account, key or subscription.

Every call carries a spending cap: maxTotalChargeUsd (default $1.00, change it with the KANTO_MAX_CHARGE_USD env var or per call). Apify stops the run once it has charged that much, so an assistant cannot run up a large bill by accident. Each result states what the call cost.

Setup

Get an Apify API token: sign up at apify.com, then Settings -> API & Integrations (console.apify.com/settings/integrations).
Add the server to your client (Node.js 18.17+ required; npx downloads and builds it from GitHub on first run).

Claude Desktop

Edit claude_desktop_config.json (Settings -> Developer -> Edit Config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kanto-labs": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "github:kanto-labs/kanto-labs-mcp"],
      "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "apify_api_your_token_here" }
    }
  }
}

Or install the one-click bundle kanto-labs-mcp.mcpb from the Releases page: double-click it and paste your token when asked.

Claude Code

claude mcp add kanto-labs -e APIFY_TOKEN=apify_api_your_token_here -- npx -y github:kanto-labs/kanto-labs-mcp

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json (global) or .cursor/mcp.json (project):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kanto-labs": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "github:kanto-labs/kanto-labs-mcp"],
      "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "apify_api_your_token_here" }
    }
  }
}

VS Code (GitHub Copilot agent mode)

.vscode/mcp.json - the token is asked for once and stored securely:

{
  "inputs": [
    { "type": "promptString", "id": "apify_token", "description": "Apify API token", "password": true }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "kanto-labs": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "github:kanto-labs/kanto-labs-mcp"],
      "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "${input:apify_token}" }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf, Cline, Zed and others

Any client that launches stdio servers works: command npx, args -y github:kanto-labs/kanto-labs-mcp, env APIFY_TOKEN.

Windows: if your client reports spawn npx ENOENT, use "command": "cmd" with "args": ["/c", "npx", "-y", "github:kanto-labs/kanto-labs-mcp"].

Example prompts

"What is stripe.com built with? And shopify.com?"
"Convert https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762 to Markdown and summarize section 3."
"Audit the SEO of https://example.com and list the three most important fixes."
"Crawl up to 20 pages of example.com, check broken links, keep it under $0.10."
"Read the text on this receipt: https://example.com/receipt.jpg - what is the total?"
"OCR this scanned Japanese PDF with the accurate model, first 5 pages only."
"When do stripe.com and shopify.com expire, who is their registrar, and do they have DMARC set up?"
"Is kanto-example-name.com still available to register?"
"Pull 8 frames from https://media.w3.org/2010/05/sintel/trailer.mp4 and describe what happens in the video."
"Download all product images wider than 300 px from https://books.toscrape.com/ as WEBP."
"Which of these link-building prospects has the highest domain authority: example-blog.com, another-site.org, third-site.net?"
"Enrich hubspot.com, Siemens and canva.com: industry, HQ, employees, logo and LinkedIn page."
"Upscale https://example.com/product-small.jpg 4x as PNG."
"Compare interest in ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude over the past 12 months. Which is growing?"
"What were people in Japan and Germany reading about yesterday?"
"How popular are zalando.de and allegro.pl, and in which countries?"
"Find 10 landscape photos of the Eiffel Tower at night that need no attribution."

Tool parameters

All tools also accept:

Parameter	Meaning
`maxTotalChargeUsd`	Spending cap for this call in USD (default `KANTO_MAX_CHARGE_USD`, else 1.00).
`timeoutSecs`	Give up after this many seconds (10-300, default 280). Apify's synchronous runs are limited to 300 s, so split big batches.

detect_website_tech_stack: urls (required), minConfidence, includeDescriptions. convert_document_to_markdown: documentUrls (required), chunkSize, chunkOverlap, includeMarkdown, maxFileSizeMb. audit_website_seo: urls (required), maxPagesPerSite, checkBrokenLinks, maxLinksToCheckPerPage. extract_text_from_image: sources (required), quality (fast/accurate), includeLines (default false here), minConfidence (0.3/0.4/0.5/0.6/0.7/0.8), pdfMode (auto/ocr), maxPdfPages, pdfDpi. lookup_domain: domains (required), includeWhois, includeDns, includeSsl, includeEmailSecurity. extract_video_frames: videoUrls (required), mode (auto/scenes/count/interval), frameCount, intervalSeconds, maxFramesPerVideo, sceneThreshold (0.15/0.2/0.3/0.4/0.5), imageFormat (jpg/png/webp), maxWidth, contactSheet. download_images: urls (required), maxImagesPerPage, minWidth, minHeight, minFileSizeKb, allowedFormats, includeSvg, includeCssBackgrounds, includeIcons, convertTo (original/jpg/png/webp), maxDimension, dedupe. check_domain_authority: (required). : (required), , , . : (required), (/), (/), (//), , . : (required), , (//////), , , (///), , , , (///). : , , , , (///). : (required), . : (required), , (//), , , (///), , , , .

Each call returns two text blocks: a short human-readable summary (results, failures, cost) and compact JSON with every result item (empty fields dropped, very long text truncated at KANTO_MAX_TEXT_CHARS).

Environment variables

Variable	Default	Purpose
`APIFY_TOKEN`	- (required)	Your Apify API token. `APIFY_API_TOKEN` is accepted too.
`KANTO_MAX_CHARGE_USD`	`1.00`	Default spending cap per call.
`KANTO_TIMEOUT_SECS`	`280`	Default timeout per call (max 300).
`KANTO_MAX_TEXT_CHARS`	`100000`	Truncate any single text field (e.g. a long document's Markdown) beyond this.
`KANTO_ACTORS_CONFIG`	bundled file	Path to an alternative `actors.config.json`.

Adding actors

Tools are generated from actors.config.json: the Apify actor ID, the tool description, typed parameters, price (with optional per-result price rules and a per-result charge count for actors that bill several events per row), input defaults, and a one-line summary template. Adding an actor is a config entry, no code. comingSoon: true marks an actor that is not public on the Apify Store yet (the tool is listed with a notice and a 404 is explained); fixedInput pins actor input for a tool (one actor can back several tools). npm run build regenerates the tool table above and manifest.json from the config.

Development

npm install
npm run build
npm test                                   # offline: lists tools, checks the missing-token error
APIFY_TOKEN=... npm run test:live          # one tiny real call per tool (about $0.04)
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector node dist/index.js   # interactive inspector
npm run bundle                             # builds build/kanto-labs-mcp.mcpb

Privacy

The server runs on your machine and talks only to api.apify.com. The URLs and domains you pass are processed by the actors on Apify; see each actor's page on the Apify Store. Your token is sent only to Apify and is never logged.

License

MIT - see LICENSE.

Add this server

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

Server facts

Tools

Questions

How do I install Kanto Labs?

Does Kanto Labs need an API key?

What transport does Kanto Labs use?

When was Kanto Labs last checked?

Documentation

Kanto Labs MCP server

How billing works

Setup

Claude Desktop

Claude Code

Cursor

VS Code (GitHub Copilot agent mode)

Windsurf, Cline, Zed and others

Example prompts

Tool parameters

Environment variables

Adding actors

Development

Privacy

License