--- title: "Recherche Externe on ChatGPT: ranks and changes · OpenApps" description: "On Oct 29, 2026, Recherche Externe is an app on ChatGPT by mmcco, ranked #529 in Education." url: https://theopenapps.com/chatgpt/apps/recherche-externe --- > AI agents: this is one page of OpenApps as Markdown. https://theopenapps.com/llms.txt maps the site, the API and the MCP server. # Recherche Externe [mmcco](https://theopenapps.com/publishers/mmcco) Education & Research ChatGPT Apps SDK New [Web search](https://theopenapps.com/tags/web-search) [Legal research](https://theopenapps.com/tags/legal-research) [Vercel](https://theopenapps.com/tags/vercel) Recherche Externe is a research and verification toolkit with real internet access for AI agents. Its golden rule is to never answer from memory: every fact, article or figure it asserts should come from a page actually fetched, with the excerpt and the URL cited. It does six things. (1) chercher\_web runs a keyless, best-effort general web search, trying Bing then DuckDuckGo (often rate-limited from a server) and falling back to the Wikipedia search API; it returns titles, URLs and snippets to locate sources and reports which engine was used, without claiming to know the page contents. (2) lire\_page fetches a URL and returns its readable text (title and content) live, for the general web, LegisQuebec, Justice Canada and PDF files, whose text is extracted page by page; it does not execute JavaScript, so purely dynamic or bot-protected pages may fail. (3) loi\_quebec fetches the exact official text of a Quebec statute or regulation article from LegisQuebec and returns it with its URL. (4) loi\_federale fetches federal statute text from laws-lois.justice.gc.ca (for example the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act). (5) chercher\_jurisprudence builds reliable CanLII and SOQUIJ case-law search links to open in a browser: because CanLII blocks automated server-side fetching, this tool does not claim to read decisions, it only provides links. (6) sources\_officielles\_qc returns verified links and the matching tool to use for official Quebec sources by theme (case law, statutes and regulations, professional orders, land and real-estate records). Recherche Externe is read-oriented: it only searches and reads public sources, needs no account, and never modifies, sends, deploys or acts in any external system. When a source is unreachable it says so ("not verified - source unreachable") instead of filling the gap with a plausible reconstruction, and it marks any text longer than the requested limit as truncated rather than presenting it as complete. [Open in ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin%5Fasdk%5Fapp%5F6acd67b8be048191be65a273407f4154?open%5Fin%5Fapp) [Website](https://connecteur-recherche-externe.vercel.app) [Top rank now #529 3 up · 1d Education](https://theopenapps.com/chatgpt/apps/recherche-externe?tab=ranks&slug=category%3Aeducation-and-research) [Peak (14d) #529 Education](https://theopenapps.com/chatgpt/apps/recherche-externe?tab=ranks&slug=category%3Aeducation-and-research) First listed Oct 23, 2026 [Overview](https://theopenapps.com/chatgpt/apps/recherche-externe) [Ranks](https://theopenapps.com/chatgpt/apps/recherche-externe?tab=ranks) [Changes](https://theopenapps.com/chatgpt/apps/recherche-externe?tab=changes) ## Where it stands [Education #529 3 up · 1d NEW to the chart Peak #529 in 14d](https://theopenapps.com/chatgpt/apps/recherche-externe?tab=ranks&slug=category%3Aeducation-and-research) ## Starter prompts * Give me the official text of article 1457 of the Civil Code of Quebec (CCQ-1991) with the source URL. * Search the web for recent sources on Quebec tenant rights and list the titles with their links. * Open this URL and summarize only what the page actually says, citing the exact excerpt. ## Details Developer [mmcco](https://theopenapps.com/publishers/mmcco) Category Education & Research Kind Apps SDK Version 0.1.0 Sign-in On install Capabilities Keyless web search (Bing/DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia fallback) and live fetch of any URL or PDF as readable text., Retrieves official legal text live from LegisQuebec (Quebec) and Justice Canada (federal), with the source URL., Read-only: searches and reads public sources and cites excerpt plus URL; case law returns CanLII/SOQUIJ links. Created Oct 12 Website [connecteur-recherche-externe.vercel.app](https://connecteur-recherche-externe.vercel.app) Privacy [connecteur-recherche-externe.vercel.app](https://connecteur-recherche-externe.vercel.app/privacy) Listing ID plugin\_asdk\_app\_6acd67b8be048191be65a273407f4154 ## Launch lag 10 d Oct 12 → Oct 23 ## Badge ```markdown [![Listed on OpenApps](https://theopenapps.com/badge/chatgpt/apps/recherche-externe.svg)](https://theopenapps.com/chatgpt/apps/recherche-externe) ```