How I Built a 12-Tool MCP Server for AI Agents in 4 Hours (and What It Taught Me About 2026 Scraping)

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard is becoming the default way to expose tools to LLMs in 2026. Anthropic, OpenAI, and every major editor vendor — Cursor, Cline, Continue, Windsurf — now ship with MCP support. If you have any API or scraper, MCP-ifying it is a free distribution channel into every AI client on the market. I had 12 web scrapers running on Apify Store. Last weekend I bundled them into a single MCP server. Total time: about 4 hours. Here is what I learned, including the bug t