FindLocal

FindLocal is a hyper-local events API covering 85 metros across the US and UK (84 US metros plus London), with 86,000+ upcoming events from 15,000+ venues: concerts, comedy, theater, author readings, film, talks, classes and community events. Data comes from venues' own calendars and is updated daily, available through a JSON REST API, an MCP server and free embeddable widgets.

FindLocal publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Events API and Venues API. Tagged areas include Event, Hyperlocal, Community, Data, and Open Data.

The FindLocal catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

FindLocal’s developer surface includes changelog, sandbox, authentication, engineering blog, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, and 29 more developer resources.

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54.3/100 strong ▲ 8.6 Agent 59/100 agent native Heartbeat 50/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 2 Agent Skills

Event Hyperlocal Community Data Open Data

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 54.3/100 · strong

Contract Quality 13.9 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.2 / 17

Access Clarity 9.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 6.1 / 11

Contract Governance 3.6 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 59/100 · agent native

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Government & Public Sector regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document +5 pts — a parsing /.well-known/ucp.json or acp.json declaring a version and at least one service, OR (0.27) a live x402 payment challenge from _data/x402-adoption.json — `self` when its endpoints are on the provider's own domain, `platform` when they are on a vendor's
Well-Known Catalog +4 pts — common[].type includes WellKnown, APICatalog, or api-catalog
Consent & Bot Identity +3 pts — common[].type includes AIPREF, ContentSignal, WebBotAuth, or HTTPMessageSignatures

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 36.3 — up to +12.7 composite points
Access Clarity scores 53.9 — up to +9.2 composite points
Contract Quality scores 65.6 — up to +8.6 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/findlocal/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/findlocal to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

Standards implemented 3

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

FindLocal Events API

Search upcoming events and look up a single event across 85 US and UK metros.

FindLocal Venues API

The Venues API from FindLocal — 1 operation(s) for venues.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

FindLocal MCP Server

FindLocal remote MCP server (same API key as the REST API). Docs: https://findlocal.community/mcp

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

discover-venues-in-a-metro

AGENT SKILL

find-events-in-a-metro

AGENT SKILL

FindLocal API pricing

Prices published by FindLocal.

Plan	Price
Free	free, no card
Indie	$9/month (launch price, locked in for life; $19/mo from Nov 15, 2026)
Business	$49/month (launch price, locked in for life; $99/mo from Nov 15, 2026)
Enterprise	more than Business (custom quota, higher burst limit, invoicing): email elliot@findlocal.c

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Rate limits

Free monthly quota: 100 calls/month, hard stop
Free per-minute rate: 30 requests/minute
Indie monthly quota: 10,000 calls/month, then $0.002 per extra call

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Findlocal Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Findlocal Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Findlocal Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Findlocal Context

3 classes · 37 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

FindLocal API Rules

51 rules · 48 errors 2 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 2

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Findlocal Events Api Overlay

3 actions · update · findlocal-events-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

Findlocal Venues Api Overlay

3 actions · update · findlocal-venues-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Event

27 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Venue

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Findlocal Authentication

2 schemes

SECURITY

Findlocal Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Findlocal Agentic Access

3 operations

3 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Sandbox

Sandbox

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

Design & Contract 9

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

Components

Lifecycle

ErrorCatalog

Spectral

Conventions

Conformance

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Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Deprecation

Deprecation

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

FinOps

Plans

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: findlocal
name: FindLocal
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://findlocal.community/og-default.png
description: 'FindLocal is a hyper-local events API covering 85 metros across the US and UK (84 US metros plus London), with
  86,000+ upcoming events from 15,000+ venues: concerts, comedy, theater, author readings, film, talks, classes and community
  events. Data comes from venues'' own calendars and is updated daily, available through a JSON REST API, an MCP server and
  free embeddable widgets.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/findlocal/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:new-submission
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-09-25 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-25'
modified: '2026-11-04'
tags:
- Event
- Hyperlocal
- Community
- Data
- Open Data
tags_raw:
- Events
- API
- Hyperlocal
- Community
- Data
- OpenData
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/findlocal-agentic-access.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/findlocal-finops.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/findlocal-rate-limits.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/findlocal-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/findlocal-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/findlocal-data-model.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/findlocal-components.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/findlocal-changelog.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/findlocal-sandbox.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/findlocal-lifecycle.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/findlocal-lifecycle.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/findlocal-problem-types.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/findlocal-events-api-overlay.yaml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/findlocal-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/findlocal-well-known.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/findlocal-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/findlocal-rules.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/findlocal-conventions.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/findlocal-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/findlocal-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/findlocal-llms.txt
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/findlocal-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/findlocal-vendors.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://findlocal.community/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://findlocal.community/privacy
- type: Blog
  url: https://findlocal.community/blog
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/findlocal-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://findlocal.community/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://findlocal.community/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://findlocal.community/openapi.json
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://findlocal.community/signup
- type: Pricing
  url: https://findlocal.community/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://findlocal.community/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://findlocal.community/login
- type: MCPServer
  url: https://mcp.findlocal.community/mcp
  description: 'FindLocal remote MCP server (same API key as the REST API). Docs: https://findlocal.community/mcp'
apis:
- aid: findlocal:findlocal-events-api
  name: FindLocal Events API
  description: Search upcoming events and look up a single event across 85 US and UK metros.
  humanURL: https://findlocal.community/docs
  baseURL: https://findlocal.community/api
  tags:
  - Event
  tags_raw:
  - Events
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/findlocal-events-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/findlocal-event-schema.json
- aid: findlocal:findlocal-venues-api
  name: FindLocal Venues API
  description: The Venues API from FindLocal — 1 operation(s) for venues.
  humanURL: https://findlocal.community/docs
  baseURL: https://findlocal.community/api
  tags:
  - Venues
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/findlocal-venues-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/findlocal-venue-schema.json
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-04'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=anthropic,contract=anthropic,surfaces=anthropic,docs=anthropic,regulatory=anthropic

FindLocal API — frequently asked questions

Does FindLocal have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from FindLocal, including FindLocal Events API and FindLocal Venues API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the FindLocal API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for FindLocal, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the FindLocal API?

FindLocal documents its authentication (2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Findlocal Authentication.

How much does the FindLocal API cost?

FindLocal publishes its prices; its Free plan is free, no card as of 2026-11-04. APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for FindLocal, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does FindLocal have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for FindLocal: FindLocal remote MCP server (same API key as the REST API). Docs: https://findlocal.community/mcp

Is the FindLocal API ready for AI agents?

FindLocal has a Kin Score of 54.3 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 58.8 (agent-native), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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