RAG Web Browser
Pricing
Pay per usage
RAG Web Browser
Web browser for OpenAI Assistants, RAG pipelines, or AI agents, similar to a web browser in ChatGPT. It queries Google Search, scrapes the top N pages from the results, and returns their cleaned content as Markdown for further processing by an LLM. It can also scrape individual URLs. Supports MCP.
4.3 (10)
Pricing
Pay per usage
66
Monthly users
686
Runs succeeded
>99%
Response time
14 hours
Last modified
9 hours ago
You can access the RAG Web Browser programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running
2curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=apify/rag-web-browser"
3
4# Session id example output:
5# event: endpoint
6# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1faUsing RAG Web Browser via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
MCP server lets you use RAG Web Browser within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the RAG Web Browser Actor with the provided input.
1curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
2 "jsonrpc": "2.0",
3 "id": 1,
4 "method": "tools/call",
5 "params": {
6 "arguments": {
7 "query": "web browser for RAG pipelines -site:reddit.com",
8 "proxyConfiguration": {
9 "useApifyProxy": true
10 },
11 "removeElementsCssSelector": "nav, footer, script, style, noscript, svg, img[src^='\''data:'\''],\\n[role=\\"alert\\"],\\n[role=\\"banner\\"],\\n[role=\\"dialog\\"],\\n[role=\\"alertdialog\\"],\\n[role=\\"region\\"][aria-label*=\\"skip\\" i],\\n[aria-modal=\\"true\\"]",
12 "htmlTransformer": "none"
13},
14 "name": "apify/rag-web-browser"
15 }
16}'The response should be: Accepted. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:
1event: message
2data: {
3 "result": {
4 "content": [
5 {
6 "type": "text",
7 "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"
8 }
9 ]
10 }
11}Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for RAG Web Browser
You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:
1{
2 "mcpServers": {
3 "actors-mcp-server": {
4 "command": "npx",
5 "args": [
6 "-y",
7 "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
8 "--actors",
9 "apify/rag-web-browser"
10 ],
11 "env": {
12 "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
13 }
14 }
15 }
16}You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.
To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.
Pricing
Pricing model
Pay per usageThis Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage.
