Use Philadelphia Events with an AI assistant

Philadelphia Events’s event listings are also available to AI assistants through MCP (Model Context Protocol), a standard way to plug a data source into a chat app. Once connected, you can ask in plain English, “what's on this weekend?”, and the assistant looks up real, current listings instead of guessing.

The link

https://philadelphia.whatsupin.ai/mcp

Read-only and public: no account, API key or login. The assistant can search the same events you see on the site and can't change anything.

Connect it

Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app)

Open Settings → Connectors and choose Add custom connector.
Name it “Philadelphia Events” and paste the link above. Leave any sign-in/OAuth fields empty.
Start a new chat and make sure the connector is switched on (the + or tools menu in the message box).

Claude Code

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

Other apps (Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT and others): add a remote / Streamable HTTP MCP server and paste the same link. Menu names vary by app and plan, and some require a developer or paid tier.

What it can do

search_events: keyword search. Optional filters: category (ai, dance, dating, entertainment, exercise, music, volunteer), topic (arts, comedy, film, food_drink, markets, sports, talks, classes, outdoors, and more), season, date range, and area (Philadelphia only, one Greater Philadelphia region, or anywhere).
list_upcoming: everything in the next N days (up to 60), optionally one category or topic.
get_event: one event by its stable id.

Each result has title, date, time, location, price, categories, link (the original listing) and a stable id, plus where it came from: sources, first_seen, last_seen and last_fetched (dates). Results also carry data_generated, when the data was last published. Dates are local time.

Trust and reference

Coverage and accuracy: events per source, freshness, and how many real events we catch.
openapi.json and event schema; changelog.
Status (JSON: /api/status).
Terms: AI agents may use the data with attribution (CC BY 4.0).

Prompts to try

What's happening in Philadelphia this weekend? Group it by day.

Find free salsa or bachata social dancing in Philadelphia over the next two weeks.

Show AI hackathons and founder meetups in the next 30 days, with links.

Plan a Saturday for me: a morning workout, something fun in the afternoon, live music at night. Keep it in Philadelphia.

Any volunteer events this month where I could help outdoors?

Find a street fair or night market on a weekend in the Greater Philadelphia, and tell me which is cheapest.

Tips

Say a date range (“next two weeks”) and an area (“Philadelphia only”); results are best when the question is specific.
Ask for links, then check the original listing before you go. Listings can be missing, late or wrong.
Already connected to Google Calendar in the same chat? Say “add the second one to my calendar” and the assistant can do it for you. (On the website itself, hover an event and click 📅.)
If the assistant says it can't find the tool, check the connector is enabled for this chat and try again.

Philadelphia Events is a work in progress. Questions or sources I'm missing: see the footer on the main page.