Things to Do API
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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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HN · launched Oct 16, 2026 · 57 upvotes (top 19%)
- Travel & hospitality
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Partial The API wrapper and MCP server are easy to vibe code, but aggregating and continuously updating accurate, deduplicated local pop-up and one-off event data requires robust scraping pipelines.
What it would actually take: The interface is a simple FastAPI or Express backend exposing REST and MCP endpoints. The difficult component is the continuous data ingestion engine: scrapers for Eventbrite, Partiful, Luma, Instagram, and local city blogs with automated deduplication, geo-normalization, and entity resolution to keep one-off pop-up events up-to-date and accurate.
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Concerns raised: hard to maintain and keep up to date
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- Product
- Things to Do API
- Website domain
- thingstodoapi.com
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- Upvotes percentile
- 0.81
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- AI summary
- api for discovering local activities and attractions
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