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Filming Locations MCP Server

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Filming Locations is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 8 tools. Last commit 8 Sep 2026.

Where films and TV were shot, and where games, anime and manga are set. Wikidata, read only, CC0.

Uptime history 28 days of history
28 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
8
Tools
read from the server
194 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 8 Sep 2026

What changed 13

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 27 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

16 Sep a tool description was rewritten where_was_it_filmed
14 Sep a tool description was rewritten where_was_it_filmed
9 Sep 4 tools changed the parameters they ask for locations_near, search_locations, search_productions and 1 more
9 Sep a tool description was rewritten where_was_it_filmed
8 Sep a tool description was rewritten where_was_it_filmed
6 Sep a tool description was rewritten where_was_it_filmed
2 Sep a tool description was rewritten where_was_it_filmed
1 Sep a tool description was rewritten where_was_it_filmed
27 Aug a tool description was rewritten2 times that day where_was_it_filmed
and 1 more, back to 27 August 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Filming Locations every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add filming-locations --transport http https://thefilmmap.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filming-locations": {
      "url": "https://thefilmmap.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.filming-locations]
url = "https://thefilmmap.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filming-locations": {
      "url": "https://thefilmmap.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filming-locations": {
      "url": "https://thefilmmap.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 8

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

locations
locations_near
List filming locations within a radius of a WGS84 coordinate, most famous first, each with distance_km — the direct answer to "what was filmed near me?" and to set-jetting itineraries. Radius defaults to 50 km (max 500). Geocode the place yourself, then call this with its latitude and longitude.
search_locations
Find filming locations by name, optionally filtered by country (name or 2-letter ISO code) and by kind of place. Results are ordered by fame rank, which is driven by the most widely covered production shot there rather than by the place itself.
countries
list_countries
Every country in the atlas with how many filming locations it holds, most first — answers "which country has the most filming locations". Countries with a browsable page carry its URL. Coverage reflects what Wikidata records, which is uneven and skewed to Europe and North America, so read these as records and not as an inventory of world film production.
productions
search_productions
Find productions by name (accent- and case-insensitive substring match), best match first then by how widely Wikipedia covers them. Filter by kind: film, tv, game or anime. Use it when you are unsure of a title before calling where_was_it_filmed. Games and anime are placed by where they are SET, never where they were filmed; the `relation` field on every result says which.
statistics
get_statistics
Headline figures computed live from the atlas: totals by medium and by kind of place, the top countries, the busiest and most famous locations, and — the number worth quoting — how many productions Wikidata records only at country level and therefore cannot place. The source for any aggregate claim about this dataset.
top
top_locations
The atlas ranked, worldwide or inside one country or one kind of place. Order is fame rank, which comes from the most widely covered production shot there — so rank 1 is the place the most famous production used, not the place with the most credits. Sort by `productions` instead to get the busiest places (Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver). Answers "most famous filming locations in <country>".
what
what_was_filmed_here
The inverse question, and the one this atlas is unusual for answering: give a place and get everything recorded as shot there, most widely covered first. Accepts a slug (preferred, e.g. "skellig-michael") or a name. Each result carries `relation`, because a video game or an anime attached to a place was SET there and not filmed there.
where
where_was_it_filmed
The main tool. Give a film or television title and get every place Wikidata records it as filmed at, with coordinates, plus the countries it records too coarsely to place. Covers 23,531 productions across 33,119 places. Two things to carry into any answer you write. First, video games AND anime are in here as well, and neither is filmed anywhere: their places are where they are SET (Wikidata P840, not P915), and every record says which through its `relation` field — never call one of those a filming location. Second, the gaps are real information: when `countries_only` is populated, Wikidata knows the production shot in those countries but not where, and the honest answer says so rather than guessing a street. This atlas never records which scene was shot where, so do not infer it.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://thefilmmap.com/mcp streamable-http answering 192 ms 7 min ago

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Filming Locations — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Filming Locations do?
It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_statistics, list_countries, locations_near, search_locations, search_productions, top_locations and 2 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Filming Locations working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 194 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Filming Locations?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Filming Locations need an API key?
No. Filming Locations completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Filming Locations?
It answers our handshake in 194 ms on average, which is faster than 67% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Filming Locations open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.