Connecting Sitebulb Desktop to ChatGPT means you can ask ChatGPT about the projects and audits from Sitebulb running on your desktop computer, and get answers pulled straight from your crawls.
ChatGPT Individual or Business plan?
Until Sitebulb MCP gets approved by OpenAI in their Plugin Directory (which can take ~3-6 months) - you will need to add Sitebulb MCP as a custom plugin, which will look different in ChatGPT whether you're on an 'Individual' plan or a 'Business' one.
If you have an Individual plan, you need this guide - carry on below.
If you are part of a Business plan, you need a different guide - please follow this link.
Adding Sitebulb as a plugin on ChatGPT
Note that these steps apply for individual ChatGPT account - if you are part of a Business workspace, use this guide instead.
Enable developer mode
Open https://chatgpt.com, open your account menu, then choose Settings → Security and login, then scroll down until you see 'Developer mode'. Enable this using the toggle.
Create the plugin
Navigate to https://chatgpt.com/plugins and hit the plus button in the top right to add a plugin (Note: if you do not see this button, you have not enabled developer mode, please go back to the stage above).
Choose Create plugin and enter the following:
Field | Value |
Icon (optional) | Upload Sitebulb Icon (PNG here) |
Name | Sitebulb Desktop |
Description | Read Sitebulb Desktop audit data with MCP. |
Connection (button) | Server URL |
MCP Server URL | |
Authentication | OAuth |
Tick I understand and want to continue only when you're ready to create the plugin, then choose Create.
You should not need to touch the 'Advanced OAuth settings', just leave these alone.
Sign in with Sitebulb
Once you hit Create, you should see a popup screen 'Add Sitebulb Desktop to ChatGPT'. Hit Sign in with Sitebulb Desktop to open the signup flow:
This will open a page in your browser on auth.sitebulb.com - sign in with your Sitebulb credentials (make sure these are the same ones you use to sign into the Sitebulb desktop application).
Check the address first. Only ever sign in at https://auth.sitebulb.com. And don't paste OAuth codes, tokens, or one-time codes into the chat, nothing legitimate will ask you to.
Once you've signed in, you'll need to choose the 'target', which is simply the name of the desktop/laptop computer running Sitebulb (most people will only have one option here). Hit Choose alongside the computer you wish to connect to.
You'll need to hit Allow in order to give Sitebulb the read-only access it needs for MCP.
That's it, you'll now have connected Sitebulb MCP and should see confirmation in the interface.
Start a new chat and ask a simple prompt to check it's working:
Troubleshooting
If you don't see Sitebulb in the list of available plugins in your chat, you may need to hard refresh ChatGPT and/or run the sign-in process again - sometimes ChatGPT has issues syncing recently added plugins.
If you revoke the desktop 'target', you may not be able to add it back in again. Go back into ChatGPT and restart the process of connecting to the plugin, and you should then be able to select the desktop computer again as the target.