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.