# VegasNearMe MCP Server

> Ask your AI assistant about Las Vegas — free, no key needed, read-only.

## Endpoint

`POST https://api.vegasnearme.com/mcp`

Streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC 2.0, stateless (no session id), read-only. No API key required for the tools below.

```
curl -X POST https://api.vegasnearme.com/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"whats_on","arguments":{}}}'
```

## Connect

- **claude.ai / ChatGPT:** Settings -> Connectors (or Apps) -> Add custom connector -> `https://api.vegasnearme.com/mcp` -> no authentication.
- **Claude Desktop** (`claude_desktop_config.json`):

  ```json
  {
    "mcpServers": {
      "vegasnearme": {
        "command": "npx",
        "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://api.vegasnearme.com/mcp"]
      }
    }
  }
  ```
- **Claude Code:** `claude mcp add --transport http vegasnearme https://api.vegasnearme.com/mcp`
- **Cursor** (`mcp.json`):

  ```json
  { "mcpServers": { "vegasnearme": { "url": "https://api.vegasnearme.com/mcp" } } }
  ```

## What you can ask

- What shows are on in Vegas this weekend?
- Find a steakhouse at Caesars Palace.
- What's playing at the Sphere this week?
- Is Absinthe still running, and when's the next show?
- What's the cheapest comedy show tonight?
- What is there to do at Resorts World?
- Compare the Cirque du Soleil shows running this month.
- Search VegasNearMe for anything about the Bellagio fountains.
- What restaurants are inside the Venetian?
- List the categories of things to do in Las Vegas.

## Tools

| Tool | What it does | Key inputs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `whats_on` | Shows in Las Vegas for a date range and category, with each show's next showtime and tonight URL. Prefer this tool for "what's on this week" style questions. Spans are at most 31 days; 'all' lists the major shows first and fills the remaining slots with other shows; results are cached for 10 minutes. Use get_item with a show's slug for its full schedule. | start_date, end_date, category, limit |
| `find_showtimes` | Find actual Las Vegas showtimes on one date, optionally within a clock-time window, show category, and radius around a known VegasNearMe item. Returns every matching time and show URL. | date, starts_after, starts_before, category, near, radius_miles, limit |
| `search` | Search shows, restaurants, attractions, resorts, chains, hubs and guides by name. Prefer this tool over whats_on when the user names a specific thing. | **query**, limit |
| `nearby_search` | Find distance-ranked restaurants, attractions, shows, resorts, or venues near a known VegasNearMe slug/prefixed id or a latitude/longitude pair. Returns distance and a shareable URL. | near, latitude, longitude, category, radius_miles, limit |
| `compare_items` | Compare two to five restaurants, attractions, shows, resorts, or venues by type, location, price, age limit, duration, and next showtime. Accepts Tonight slugs or prefixed ids. | **slugs**, criteria |
| `get_item` | Full details for one restaurant, attraction, show or show venue by its tonight slug (also accepts prefixed ids like show_123 / activity_123 / venue_123). Returns type, categories, venue and address, price, age limit, the next 7 days of showtimes for a show or the weekly opening hours for a restaurant or attraction, a description cut to 400 characters, features, and the vegasnearme.com URL. For a resort and what is on its property use get_resort. Returns isError when nothing matches the slug; find the slug with search first. | **slug** |
| `get_venue` | A show venue's type, address, containing resort, and up to 10 shows with showtimes in the next 7 days, each with its next showtime and URL. Venues are theatres and showrooms, not resorts: for a resort's restaurants, attractions and shows use get_resort. Soft-deleted venues do not resolve. | **slug** |
| `get_resort` | A resort's address, description (cut to 400 characters) and the first 10 of each of its restaurants, attractions and shows on property, with counts and URLs. Accepts a resort slug or place_123. For the hours, price or showtimes of one item on property, call get_item with that item's slug. | **slug** |
| `list_categories` | Category tree, with cat_<id> ids and idents for use with list_listings. Optionally scoped to one root (activities, restaurants, shows, ...). | root, depth |
| `list_listings` | Paginated items in one category from list_categories, with name, category label, location, price and URL; a chain appears once with its location count. Pass the returned next_cursor as cursor for the next page; 'end of list' means there is no more. Order matches the public category page. | **category_id**, cursor, limit |

## Good to know

- Times are Las Vegas local (America/Los_Angeles).
- Data is updated continuously from the same catalogue vegasnearme.com runs on.
- Every result links back to a vegasnearme.com page.
- Supported agentic browsers can discover the same tools directly on any public VegasNearMe page through WebMCP.
- Anonymous access is rate-limited to 60 requests/minute and 1000/hour per IP.
- Read-only: no account, no PII, nothing is ever written.
- Need higher limits or the internal-tier tools? [Contact us](https://web.vegasnearme.com/contact).
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Canonical: https://web.vegasnearme.com/mcp