{"slug": "show-hn-things-to-do-api", "title": "Show HN: Things to Do API", "summary": "A developer launched Things to Do API, an API and MCP server for local events such as pop-ups, one-off events and concerts, currently covering the San Francisco Bay Area. The developer said the dataset is built by finding influential accounts and fanning out across the things they co-post with, and is offered as a faster alternative to on-demand scraping or agent web search, with the MCP endpoint available at https://api.thingstodoapi.com/mcp. The developer is considering adding other cities and asked whether local event data would be useful and where coverage should expand.", "body_md": "I built an api/mcp for local events: pop-ups, one-off events, concerts, etc. currently covering the SF bay area.\n\nI'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.\n\nyou 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.\n\nthe methodology for it is to find influential accounts/posters/etc. and do a fan out across things that they co-post with.\n\nmcp: `claude mcp add --transport http thingstodo [https://api.thingstodoapi.com/mcp](https://api.thingstodoapi.com/mcp)`\n\nI'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?\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50126384](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50126384)\n\nPoints: 2\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-things-to-do-api", "canonical_source": "https://thingstodoapi.com/", "published_at": "2026-10-16 23:58:34+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-17 00:26:51.782307+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "agent-protocols", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Things to Do API", "MCP", "San Francisco Bay Area", "Hacker News"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-things-to-do-api", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-things-to-do-api.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-things-to-do-api.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-things-to-do-api.jsonld"}}