SceneF — Movie Showtimes for California & Hawaii (MCP server)

Built by movie lovers, for movie lovers and their assistants.

SceneF started in San Francisco — one of the last great moviegoing cities: single-screen neighborhood houses from the 1920s, repertory calendars that change nightly, 35mm and 70mm prints, midnight movies, and yes, the multiplexes too. It now runs 33 regional boards across California and Hawaii — Los Angeles to Sacramento, San Diego to Maui — and more states are soaking. Every board puts every screen in its region on one page and verifies each showtime against the theater's own box office, so nobody ever drives to a dark theater.

Remote MCP server, streamable HTTP, no API key, read-only — and a local stdio server in this repo, running the same ten tools.

Every tool takes a region — "sf", "la-central", "oahu", "sacramento", … — and omitting it means the default board (sf), never a guess from where you are. Call scenef_now for the current list of boards. Times are each theatre's own wall clock: Hawaii runs three hours off Pacific and keeps no DST, and each board reports its timezone with its data.

https://scenef.com/mcp

Connect

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http scenef https://scenef.com/mcp

Claude Desktop / any MCP client (.mcp.json / client config)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scenef": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://scenef.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Also listed in the official MCP registry as com.scenef/showtimes.

Or run it locally

This repo is also a local MCP server — Node, stdio, no proxy. It speaks the protocol itself and reads the same board over SceneF's public REST API. Same ten tools, same schemas, same descriptions, same numbers; pick the transport your client prefers.

npx -y github:speedwarnsf/scenef-mcp

Claude Desktop / any stdio client

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scenef": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "github:speedwarnsf/scenef-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

From a clone, or Docker

npm install && npm start

docker build -t scenef-mcp . && docker run --rm -i scenef-mcp

No API key, no account, no configuration. It sends User-Agent: scenef-mcp-local/1.1, issues nothing but GET, and has no write path anywhere in it.

npm test runs two suites: test/contract.js calls all ten tools against the live board and validates every payload against the output schema the server advertises, and test/parity.js diffs this server's tool definitions against the hosted endpoint's — one contract, two transports, proven rather than asserted.

Tools

Every tool answers for one regional board at a time — pass region to pick it. Every ticket link is a direct door to the theater's own box office. No ads, no pay-ranking; ranking is pure preference-scoring and nothing is ever hidden. The repertory houses get the same billing as the chains — a lone 35mm print at a neighborhood house is exactly the kind of thing this server exists to surface, whether that house is in the Richmond or in Hilo.

Why trust it

• Showtimes are read from each theater's own ticketing system or venue feed where one exists, and corroborated across independent sources where it doesn't. Every screening carries confidence, sources, and verified_at.
• The verification record is public — including the checks that failed: scenef.com/api/accuracy.
• Same-day truth: an evening sweep pulls cancelled shows and flips sold-out both ways between ingests.

Prefer plain HTTP?

The same data is served REST-style — see scenef.com/agents for the full contract: /api/listings · /ask · OpenAPI · llms.txt

Contact

[email protected] · scenef.com