⚡3:00 PM·Experts Only Festival@TBA Brooklyn4:00 PM·Queens Night Market@New York Hall of Science4:00 PM·All Day I Dream: Lee Burridge @ 𝙸𝙽𝙳𝚄𝚂𝚃𝚁𝚈 𝙲𝙸𝚃𝚈@House of Yes6:00 PM·Benefit Show: Liz Phair & Sleater-Kinney | The Flannel and The Fury 2026@Lena Horne Bandshell6:00 PM·Anti-Anemoia Festival@Webster Hall6:00 PM·Benefit Show: Liz Phair & Sleater-Kinney | The Flannel and The Fury 2026@BRICSEP 20·Titanique@Richard Rodgers Theatre3:00 PM·Refuge Saturday Daytime: Ahadadream + Coffintexts@The Greater Refuge Temple3:00 PM·DAY+NIGHT@Basement3:00 PM·Improv Comedy. EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH@Broadway Comedy Club3:00 PM·DIRTY DESMONDS@Barbès3:00 PM·DAY+NIGHT: D.Dan/ Mos/ Elle Dee/ Freddy K/ RonLikeHell/ cotton/ Massi Pagliara/ Heidi L/ KimAnh@TBA Brooklyn3:00 PM·Experts Only Festival@TBA Brooklyn4:00 PM·Queens Night Market@New York Hall of Science4:00 PM·All Day I Dream: Lee Burridge @ 𝙸𝙽𝙳𝚄𝚂𝚃𝚁𝚈 𝙲𝙸𝚃𝚈@House of Yes6:00 PM·Benefit Show: Liz Phair & Sleater-Kinney | The Flannel and The Fury 2026@Lena Horne Bandshell6:00 PM·Anti-Anemoia Festival@Webster Hall6:00 PM·Benefit Show: Liz Phair & Sleater-Kinney | The Flannel and The Fury 2026@BRICSEP 20·Titanique@Richard Rodgers Theatre3:00 PM·Refuge Saturday Daytime: Ahadadream + Coffintexts@The Greater Refuge Temple3:00 PM·DAY+NIGHT@Basement3:00 PM·Improv Comedy. EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH@Broadway Comedy Club3:00 PM·DIRTY DESMONDS@Barbès3:00 PM·DAY+NIGHT: D.Dan/ Mos/ Elle Dee/ Freddy K/ RonLikeHell/ cotton/ Massi Pagliara/ Heidi L/ KimAnh@TBA Brooklyn3:00 PM·Experts Only Festival@TBA Brooklyn4:00 PM·Queens Night Market@New York Hall of Science4:00 PM·All Day I Dream: Lee Burridge @ 𝙸𝙽𝙳𝚄𝚂𝚃𝚁𝚈 𝙲𝙸𝚃𝚈@House of Yes6:00 PM·Benefit Show: Liz Phair & Sleater-Kinney | The Flannel and The Fury 2026@Lena Horne Bandshell6:00 PM·Anti-Anemoia Festival@Webster Hall6:00 PM·Benefit Show: Liz Phair & Sleater-Kinney | The Flannel and The Fury 2026@BRICSEP 20·Titanique@Richard Rodgers Theatre3:00 PM·Refuge Saturday Daytime: Ahadadream + Coffintexts@The Greater Refuge Temple3:00 PM·DAY+NIGHT@Basement3:00 PM·Improv Comedy. EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH@Broadway Comedy Club3:00 PM·DIRTY DESMONDS@Barbès3:00 PM·DAY+NIGHT: D.Dan/ Mos/ Elle Dee/ Freddy K/ RonLikeHell/ cotton/ Massi Pagliara/ Heidi L/ KimAnh@TBA Brooklyn
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Flash Events MCP · Beta

A live map of what is happening tonight, for your agents.

Flash Events MCP gives LLM agents focused tools for event and place discovery: search, schedule, compare, and explain — no brittle scraping, no stale data.

~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flash-events": {
      "url": "https://api.flashevents.ai/v1/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}
10k+
Live events indexed
12
Cities covered
6
MCP tools
< 200ms
p50 query latency
Why MCP

Specific tools beat open-ended browsing.

Agents perform best when they can call narrow tools with clear schemas. Flash Events exposes the primitives an event-aware assistant actually needs.

Search

Find what is happening, in context.

Filter by keyword, category, subcategory, venue, time window, and a lat/lng radius — all in one call.

Places

Understand venues and neighborhoods.

Public place data with names, descriptions, coordinates, vibes, categories, and cover photos — no scraping.

Schedule

Plan with real occurrence times.

Upcoming occurrences, recurrence patterns, and similar-event lookups for itinerary and recommendation agents.

Tool catalog

Six tools. One coherent surface.

Full schema in dashboard
events.search

Find events by keyword, category, time window, and radius.

querycategoriesstartTimeendTimelat,lngradiusMi
events.get

Fetch full event detail by id, including occurrences and venue.

eventId
events.similar

Return events similar to a seed event, ranked by relevance.

eventIdlimit
occurrences.upcoming

List upcoming start times for an event or venue.

eventId | placeIdlimit
places.search

Discover venues by name, vibe, category, or location.

querycategorieslat,lngradiusMi
places.get

Fetch a place with its description, coordinates, and cover photo.

placeId
From query to plan

Three calls, one good night out.

Most agent flows compose into the same shape: discover, compare, plan. Flash Events tools map to that flow directly.

  1. Discover
    Agent calls events.search with a natural-language brief — “Friday comedy near Hotel Indigo, under $40.”
  2. Compare
    Agent ranks results using events.similar and places.get to get vibe, neighborhood, and venue context.
  3. Plan
    Agent uses occurrences.upcoming to lock real start times and hands the user a concrete plan.
Agents already shipping with Flash Events
A travel agent finds a Friday-night comedy show within walking distance of a hotel.
A concierge agent compares live music options by neighborhood and vibe.
A calendar agent turns an event search into a plan with concrete times and venue context.
A local-discovery agent answers follow-ups without scraping the open web.
Quickstart

Connect in under a minute.

1. Add to your MCP client
mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flash-events": {
      "url": "https://api.flashevents.ai/v1/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}
2. Or call the REST API directly
shell
curl https://api.flashevents.ai/v1/events/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -G --data-urlencode "query=live jazz" \
     --data-urlencode "lat=40.7128" \
     --data-urlencode "lng=-74.0060" \
     --data-urlencode "radiusMi=3"
Ready when you are

Spin up an API key, drop in the MCP config, and ship an event-aware agent today.

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