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Skiddle

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pipeworx.ioGames & Entertainment0Updated 5w ago

About Skiddle

Skiddle is an MCP server for searching UK events, for people looking for gigs, club nights, festivals, and other listings. It also retrieves event and venue details by ID and provides category codes for filtering.

Key features

  1. 01Search by keyword, location, category, and date
  2. 02Sort results by date or distance
  3. 03Get event and venue details by ID
  4. 04List event category codes

Use cases

  1. 01Find nearby gigs on a specific date
  2. 02Filter festivals or club nights by type
  3. 03Look up event and venue details

MCP support

It provides MCP clients with tools to search events, retrieve a single event, and list category codes. It can connect through the Pipeworx gateway or run as a local stdio MCP server.

Configuration

Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.

Endpointhttps://gateway.pipeworx.io/skiddle/mcp
Copy install command
Claude CodeTerminal
Cursor.cursor/mcp.json
VS Code.vscode/mcp.json
Claude Desktopclaude_desktop_config.json
Windsurf~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.

Tools

Details

From the project README

mcp-skiddle

Skiddle MCP.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1683+ live data sources.

Tools

ToolDescription
search_eventsSearch UK events (gigs, club nights, festivals, comedy, theatre, exhibitions). Filter by location (latitude+longitude+radius), keyword, category, and date window. Sorted by date or distance.
eventGet a single Skiddle event by id, with full details and venue.
categoriesList Skiddle event category codes (for the search_events category filter).

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skiddle": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/skiddle/mcp"
    }
  }
}
What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/skiddle/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1683+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/skiddle_search_events \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"latitude":51.5074,"longitude":-0.1278,"radius":10,"keyword":"techno","limit":20}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/skiddle_search_events. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Standalone (no gateway account)

This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skiddle": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-skiddle"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-skiddle

It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Skiddle data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

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License

MIT

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