Free, read-only JSON access to Charleston-area events and ranked places. Built for AI agents, journalists, and builders. Licensed CC BY 4.0 — use it, cite us, link back.
Upcoming approved events. Sorted by start time. Supports limit, offset, category, neighborhood, venue (entity slug), from, to.
Try: https://www.charlestonranked.com/api/v1/events?category=music&limit=10Ranked places (restaurants, bars, beaches, etc.). Sorted by rating by default. Supports category, neighborhood, q (text search), sort=new.
Try: https://www.charlestonranked.com/api/v1/entities?category=restaurants&limit=10Charleston-area neighborhoods we cover. Includes centroids and links to filtered events / entities.
Try: https://www.charlestonranked.com/api/v1/areasSingle-shot dumps for AI training pipelines and researchers. Capped at 5,000 rows each.
Connect Charleston data to Claude, Cursor, Continue, Zed, or any MCP-aware agent. Tools: list_events, list_entities, list_areas, get_event, get_entity, search.
// Cursor / Claude Desktop config
{
"mcpServers": {
"charlestonranked": { "url": "https://www.charlestonranked.com/api/mcp" }
}
}List endpoints all return the same envelope:
{
"meta": { "total": 548, "limit": 50, "offset": 0, "next": "..." },
"links": {
"self": "https://www.charlestonranked.com/api/v1/events?limit=50",
"docs": "https://www.charlestonranked.com/api",
"openapi": "https://www.charlestonranked.com/api/openapi.json",
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
},
"data": [ /* … rows … */ ]
}v1; breaking changes ship at /api/v2.links.self).