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Free fan-convention data for agents: search furry, anime & gaming conventions across 51 US & Canadian metros — dates, registration windows, table costs, and attendance history.
What can you do with ArtistAlly?
ArtistAlly — Convention Data MCP Server
Free fan-convention data for agents: search furry, anime & gaming conventions across 51 US & Canadian metros — dates, registration windows, table costs, and attendance history.
ArtistAlly is a hosted, remote Model Context Protocol server that gives any MCP-capable agent a single, no-key call for questions like "which conventions can I still get an artist-alley table at?" or "what anime cons are in the Southeast this fall?" It serves the approved ArtistAlly catalog — dates, venues, artist-alley and vendor registration windows, table costs, badge prices, hotel blocks, transit access, and multi-year attendance history — refreshed daily, with organizer-verified fields flagged.
- Endpoint:
https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp(streamable-HTTP) - Auth: none — every tool is free and read-only
- Docs & connect guide: https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/mcp
- In the official MCP registry as:
sh.alchemylab.artistally/conventions
This repository is documentation only — ArtistAlly is a hosted service that's always on. There's nothing to install, build, or run locally.
Quick start
Point any MCP client at the remote endpoint via the
mcp-remote shim:
{
"mcpServers": {
"artistally": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp"]
}
}
}
Drop that into your client config (claude_desktop_config.json, Cursor, Cline,
etc.) and the ArtistAlly tools appear. Clients that speak streamable-HTTP directly
(Claude Code, claude.ai connectors) can use the endpoint URL as-is — see
https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/mcp for per-client instructions.
Tools
All tools are free and need no auth. See https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/mcp for the always-current list and full schemas.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
artistally_search_conventions |
Search conventions by text, community (furry/anime/gaming), region, state, metro, or date range |
artistally_get_convention |
Full profile of one convention: registration windows, costs, hotel block, transit, and up to 6 years of attendance/pricing history |
artistally_list_open_registrations |
Artist-alley and vendor registration windows open now or opening soon, sorted by closing date |
artistally_get_coverage |
The regions, states/provinces, and metros tracked, with convention counts (and the valid filter values for the other tools) |
Every response includes a canonical url for each convention and a source
attribution block — please link the convention's page when you present the data.
Browse it yourself
No MCP client needed — the same catalog is public on the web:
- Events directory: https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/events (filter by region, state, metro, community)
- Registration board: https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/registrations (open now / opening soon)
- Machine-readable index: https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/llms.txt
- Sitemap: https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/sitemap.xml
Links
- Website: https://artistally.alchemylab.sh
- Connect guide (canonical tool list): https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/mcp
- Also on Smithery: https://smithery.ai/servers/alix-petkov/artistally
- Official MCP registry:
sh.alchemylab.artistally/conventions
For registry tooling
The Dockerfile here is not the server — it's a thin
mcp-remote bridge so directories
that build and introspect a container (e.g. Glama's checks) can start the
server and list its tools against the live endpoint. There's still nothing to
run locally; just point your client at the URL above.
License
MIT — covers this documentation repository. The ArtistAlly service itself is a hosted product operated by Alchemy Lab LLC.
Install
Add ArtistAlly to your client. Pick the one you use.
claude mcp add --transport http artistally https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/api/mcpcodex mcp add artistally --url https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"artistally": {
"url": "https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp"
}
}
}Add to `~/.cursor/mcp.json`, or `.cursor/mcp.json` for a single project.
{
"servers": {
"artistally": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp"
}
}
}Add to `.vscode/mcp.json` in your workspace.
{
"mcpServers": {
"artistally": {
"url": "https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp"
}
}
}Add to `claude_desktop_config.json`, then restart Claude Desktop.
{
"mcpServers": {
"artistally": {
"serverUrl": "https://artistally.alchemylab.sh/api/mcp"
}
}
}Add to `~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json`.
4 tools
ArtistAlly exposes 4 tools to a connected agent.
- artistally_search_conventions
- Search conventions by text, community (furry/anime/gaming), region, state, metro, or date range
- artistally_get_convention
- Full profile of one convention: registration windows, costs, hotel block, transit, and up to 6 years of attendance/pricing history
- artistally_list_open_registrations
- Artist-alley and vendor registration windows open now or opening soon, sorted by closing date
- artistally_get_coverage
- The regions, states/provinces, and metros tracked, with convention counts (and the valid filter values for the other tools)
Score
75 / 100
Good
- Documentation22/25
- Maintenance22/25
- Trust13/20
- Capability6/15
- Install experience12/15
- Documents what it does and how to connect
- Has a resolvable package or endpoint
- Exposes at least one tool, prompt or resource
- README has substantive content
- Includes a code example
- Documents its configuration
- Mentions credentials or security posture
- Last commit 42 days ago
- Has a release history
- Repository is not archived
- Licensed MIT
- Namespace verified in the official MCP registry
- Claimed by its owner
- Published under an organisation
- 4 tool(s) documented
- Provides prompt templates
- Provides resources
- 6 documented install method(s)
- Published to a package registry
- Offers a hosted endpoint — no local install
Version history
| Versions | Published |
|---|---|
| 1.1.0Latest | Aug 8, 2026 |
| 1.0.1 | Jul 20, 2026 |
| 1.0.0 | Jul 20, 2026 |