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Things to Do API

by @invalidmonk

Things to Do API I built an api/mcp for local events: pop-ups, one-off events, concerts, etc. currently covering the SF bay area. I've been building a bunch of consumer apps lately around personalization and recommendation and have had a hard time finding this data in one spot. agents can find useful stuff through tool calls / web search, but slow. you can scrape on demand too, but i wanted a faster data set and couldn't find an existing provider for the mix of event types I was searching for. the methodology for it is to find influential accounts/posters/etc. and do a fan out across things that they co-post with. mcp: `claude mcp add --transport http thingstodo https://api.thingstodoapi.com/mcp` I'm considering adding other cities. If you're building something that needs local event data, would something like this be useful and where would you want coverage?

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