What's Up In: local events MCP Server

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answering

What's Up In: local events is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Read-only search of upcoming local events in US cities: music, comedy, AI/tech, arts, food, sports.

Uptime history 22 hours of history

22 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

80 of 80 checks

Tools

read from the server

142 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 42

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 16 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

16 Oct 4 tools changed the parameters they ask for28 times that day get_event, list_upcoming, search_across_cities and 1 more

16 Oct 2 tool descriptions were rewritten14 times that day search_across_cities, search_events

and 36 more, back to 16 October 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check What's Up In: local events every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add events --transport http https://whatsupin.ai/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "events": {
      "url": "https://whatsupin.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.events]
url = "https://whatsupin.ai/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "events": {
      "url": "https://whatsupin.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "events": {
      "url": "https://whatsupin.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

across

search_across_cities

Search upcoming travel-worthy events across every What's Up In city at once (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, Berlin, Cancún, Cleveland, Dallas-Fort Worth, DC, Denver, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, Las Vegas, London, Mexico City, Miami, Nashville, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Rome, Tokyo): where an artist, band, comedian or team is playing, which cities have a festival, conference or expo, big arena shows, races. Only events worth a trip are indexed (named performers, festivals, conferences/expos, arena shows, games, races), not every local listing; for everything in one city, use search_events with its city. Each result names its city and links to the original listing (`link`) and the event on that city's site (`on_site`). `searched` says which cities were included and how fresh each is.

cities

list_cities

The cities What's Up In covers, each with its site, its own MCP endpoint, and how many travel-worthy events it currently indexes.

event

get_event

Look up one upcoming event by the `id` search_events or list_upcoming returned, with its source link and first_seen / last_seen / last_fetched dates.

events

search_events

Search every upcoming event in one What's Up In city (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, Berlin, Cancún, Cleveland, Dallas-Fort Worth, DC, Denver, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, Las Vegas, London, Mexico City, Miami, Nashville, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Rome, Tokyo): music, dance, AI/tech, arts, comedy, food, sports, classes, volunteering, street fairs. Use it for "what's on in <city> this weekend", "free comedy near <neighborhood>" and the like. All words in `query` must match title/location/performers/organizer/tags. Dates are the city's local dates, YYYY-MM-DD. Each event links to its original listing (`link`) and carries an `id` for get_event.

upcoming

list_upcoming

The next N days of events in one What's Up In city, optionally one category, topic or place. `by_day` counts every match per date; over `limit`, the rows shown are spread across the days.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://whatsupin.ai/mcp	streamable-http	answering	115 ms	3 min ago

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What's Up In: local events — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can What's Up In: local events do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_event, list_cities, list_upcoming, search_across_cities, search_events. 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 What's Up In: local events working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 80 of 80 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 142 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect What's Up In: local events?

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 What's Up In: local events need an API key?

No. What's Up In: local events completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is What's Up In: local events?

It answers our handshake in 142 ms on average, which is faster than 76% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.