How to Give ChatGPT Web Scraping with MCP Connectors (2026) (opens in new tab)

ChatGPT can now call your own tools through custom MCP connectors — including web scraping. But there is a catch the marketing pages skip: connectors must be remote servers, so a local tool like CrawlForge cannot be pasted in directly. This is the honest version: what is actually possible, why a wrapper is needed, and the exact bridge to build. TL;DR: ChatGPT custom MCP connectors (renamed "apps" in Dec 2025) work on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu via Developer mode — not Free/Go. C...