ChatGPT guide

Find local businesses with ChatGPT

List businesses of one type in one city, with address, website, rating and review count.

1. Connect looot to ChatGPT

Open ChatGPT Plugins at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Select the plus button, then "Add custom MCP server".
Enter a name (looot) and a short description, for example: live data APIs, paid per call.
Under Connection, choose Public endpoint and paste https://api.looot.ai/mcp, including the /mcp path.
Configure authentication, read the risk warning and select "I understand and want to continue".
Select "Create as a plugin", review the tools ChatGPT found on the server, then install the plugin.
looot's sign-in page opens when ChatGPT first needs your account: sign in and allow access. Runs are paid from your prepaid looot balance.

OpenAI's guide does not say which ChatGPT plans can add a custom MCP server. It says account and workspace policies apply to adding and using custom MCP servers.

Source, read 2026-11-10: OpenAI developer docs: Connect and test your plugin

2. Ask ChatGPT

Start a new conversation, type @ in the prompt box and select the looot plugin. Then paste the prompt.

Prompt

Use looot to find [type of business] in [city, country] with the job maps.local.search, fallback on. Return a table with name, address, website, rating and review count, sorted by review count.

3. Jobs it calls and what they cost

maps.local.search
1 call, from $0.001 per call (Serper, the cheapest of 5 providers)
Compare providers About the cheapest provider

One use costs from $0.001 at today's cheapest providers. A provider that misses can fall back to the next one, which can cost more; looot charges only the calls that ran, from your prepaid balance.

Providers in the real run below:AnyAPI

4. A real run

We ran this task through the looot MCP on 2026-11-10. Asked: coffee shops in Lisbon, Portugal. Total charged: $0.0015.

20 places returned, all in Lisbon.
Most reviewed: A Brasileira (4.2 stars, 10,705 reviews), Cafe Portugal (4.8, 6,026), The Folks Blue Street (4.7, 3,788), Neighbourhood Cafe Lisbon (4.6, 2,160).
Each row has an address, website, rating, review count, categories and map coordinates. Opening hours were empty in the rows we read.

maps.local.search on anyapi-run-maps-search (AnyAPI): answered, charged $0.0015. Run id run_fe00279fb2af420590ae68251a82eafd.

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