Developer-first Apify Actors and MCP tools for Amazon price tracking, Google Autocomplete, website-to-Markdown/RAG, YouTube transcripts, Reddit search/comments, public job postings, and restaurant menus.
| Need | Run now | API guide |
|---|---|---|
| Track an Amazon ASIN / price drop | Run Amazon Price Tracker on Apify | Amazon Price Tracker API |
| Get Google Autocomplete buyer-intent keywords | Run Google Autocomplete API on Apify | Google Autocomplete API |
| Convert a website to Markdown for RAG/LLMs | Run Website to Markdown on Apify | Website to Markdown API |
| Get a YouTube transcript with timestamps | Run YouTube Transcript API on Apify | YouTube Transcript API |
| Search Reddit posts and comments | Run Reddit Scraper API on Apify | Reddit Scraper API |
| Extract a public job posting | Run Job Vacancy Scraper on Apify | Job Posting Scraper API |
| Extract restaurant menu items and prices | Run Restaurant Menu Extractor on Apify | Restaurant Menu Scraper API |
No code: open any Actor above, enter the input, and click Start.
API: use the copy-paste examples below or open the dedicated guide.
AI agent / MCP: connect the single remote endpoint below and choose the tool you need.
Pricing can change. Use each Actor's live Pricing tab in Apify as the source of truth.
Signal Lab also ships a portable Agent Skill that teaches compatible agents when and how to route public-data work through the focused Apify Actors and Official MCP tools without embedding owner credentials.
Indexed in askill: https://askill.sh/skills/703900
OpenAgentSkill registry: https://www.openagentskill.com/skills/vzezelin-first-signal-lab-apify-tools
Install from the verified askill registry entry:
npx askill-cli add gh:VZezelin/first@signal-lab-apify-tools -yOr list/install directly from this public GitHub repository:
npx skills add VZezelin/first --list
npx skills add VZezelin/first --skill signal-lab-apify-tools -a codex -y --copyThe public install path has been verified from a clean workspace. The skill itself is at skills/signal-lab-apify-tools/SKILL.md. Installing the skill does not supply Apify credentials; paid Actor or MCP execution still uses the installer's own Apify authentication.
Signal Lab is published in the Official Model Context Protocol Registry as:
io.github.VZezelin/signal-lab-apify-tools
Registry search: https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/?q=io.github.VZezelin%2Fsignal-lab-apify-tools
The registered remote uses Apify's hosted Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint and exposes a focused set of Signal Lab tools:
{
"mcpServers": {
"signal-lab": {
"url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=signal_lab/amazon-price-tracker,signal_lab/google-autocomplete-keywords,signal_lab/website-to-markdown-crawler,signal_lab/youtube-transcript-scraper,signal_lab/reddit-search-comments,signal_lab/job-vacancy-scraper,signal_lab/restaurant-menu-extractor"
}
}
}Apify handles the MCP connection and authentication flow. Actor pricing remains defined by each Actor's live Apify Pricing tab.
- Amazon Price Tracker API — ASIN monitoring and price-drop alerts
- Google Autocomplete API — buyer-intent keyword research
- Website to Markdown API — clean RAG and LLM ingestion
- YouTube Transcript API — captions, timestamps, and metadata
- Job Posting Scraper API — title, salary, company, and location
- Restaurant Menu Scraper API — items, prices, sections, and descriptions
- Reddit Scraper API — search posts and comments
Run in Store: https://apify.com/signal_lab/amazon-price-tracker
Useful for:
- Amazon price tracking by ASIN/product URL
- price history pipelines
- price-change and price-drop alerts
- scheduled competitor monitoring
Run through the Apify API:
curl -X POST \
"https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/signal_lab~amazon-price-tracker/runs" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"productUrls": ["https://www.amazon.com/dp/0132350882"],
"emitOnlyChanges": false,
"proxyConfiguration": {"useApifyProxy": false},
"maxItems": 10
}'For alerts, run it on an Apify schedule and connect a webhook/Make/n8n flow to the resulting dataset.
Run in Store: https://apify.com/signal_lab/google-autocomplete-keywords
Useful for:
- Google Autocomplete keyword research
- commercial modifiers such as
cost,pricing,free,alternative, andAPI - country/language-specific long-tail research
- programmatic SEO and demand discovery
curl -X POST \
"https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/signal_lab~google-autocomplete-keywords/runs" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"queries": ["google autocomplete api"],
"language": "en",
"country": "us",
"expandAlphabet": false,
"includeQuestions": false,
"maxResults": 20
}'Run in Store: https://apify.com/signal_lab/website-to-markdown-crawler
Useful for:
- website-to-Markdown conversion
- clean RAG/LLM source documents
- headings, links, metadata, and structured page extraction
- one-page API calls or bounded website crawls
curl -X POST \
"https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/signal_lab~website-to-markdown-crawler/runs" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"startUrls": [{"url": "https://example.com"}],
"maxPages": 1,
"maxDepth": 0,
"sameDomainOnly": true,
"useSitemaps": false,
"respectRobotsTxt": true
}'Run in Store: https://apify.com/signal_lab/youtube-transcript-scraper
API guide: youtube-transcript-api.md
Useful for:
- public YouTube transcripts
- timestamped caption segments
- RAG and semantic search
- research, summarization, and indexing workflows
The dedicated guide includes the current input fields, a copy-paste API call, and the focused MCP configuration.
The Official MCP Registry entry above is the canonical discovery record for this Signal Lab tool bundle. You can also configure the same Apify-hosted endpoint directly in MCP-compatible clients.
After authentication, an agent can request tasks such as:
- “Track this Amazon ASIN and return the current price.”
- “Find Google Autocomplete suggestions for this buyer-intent keyword.”
- “Convert this page to clean Markdown for a RAG pipeline.”
- “Get this public YouTube transcript with timestamps.”
- “Search Reddit for recent product feedback and return source URLs.”
- “Extract structured fields from this public job posting.”
- “Extract menu items and prices from this restaurant page.”
Browse the public portfolio: https://apify.com/signal_lab
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