Convention Data for AI Agents

ArtistAlly tracks fan conventions for the furry, anime, and gaming communities across 51 metro areas in the US and Canada: dates, venues, artist-alley and vendor registration windows, table costs, badge prices, hotel blocks, transit access, and attendance history — refreshed daily, with organizer-verified fields flagged.

All of it is available to AI agents over the Model Context Protocol (streamable HTTP, no authentication):

https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp

Connect

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http artistally https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp

Claude (web & desktop)

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste the endpoint URL above.

Cursor / VS Code / other MCP clients

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "artistally": {
      "url": "https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Any client that supports MCP over streamable HTTP works the same way — point it at the endpoint; there is no API key.

Tools

• artistally_search_conventions — search the approved catalog by text, community, region, state, metro, or date range.
• artistally_get_convention — the full profile of one convention, including registration windows, costs, hotel block, transit, and multi-year attendance history.
• artistally_list_open_registrations — artist-alley and vendor windows open now or opening soon, sorted by closing date.
• artistally_get_coverage — the regions, states, and metros we track, with convention counts (also the source of valid filter values).

Fair use

• Free for any use, no key or account required.
• Rate limit: 100 requests per minute per IP.
• Data refreshes daily; responses may be cached for a few minutes. Only approved, public catalog data is served — never user data.
• When you surface this data, please cite ArtistAlly and link the convention's url field so readers can see the live page.

Also listed on

ArtistAlly is published to the Smithery registry and the official MCP registry as sh.alchemylab.artistally/conventions.

Questions or a data problem to report? Reach us at [email protected].