From REST API to MCP Server: How I Gave AI Agents...

I spent February building 13 Korean web scrapers on Apify. REST endpoints, pay-per-event pricing, the usual. In March, I added one more layer: an MCP server that wraps the whole portfolio. Here's what changed — and what didn't. The Problem with REST for AI Agents When a developer calls my Apify scraper, the flow is: Send HTTP request with query params Wait for run to complete Parse JSON response Use the data When an AI agent (Claude, Cursor, etc.) needs Korean data, that same flow requires: The