Use What's On Manila data

• Free for non-commercial use and for AI assistants and agents.
• Credit “What's On Manila” and link to the page URL that comes with every item. Each API item has a url field for this.
• Read only. Please cache what you fetch; the responses tell you for how long.
• Dates and times are Manila time (UTC+8). Event details change, so link people to the page for the latest before they buy a ticket.
• For commercial use, write to us through the partners page.

• /llms.txt: a short map of the site, following the llmstxt.org format.
• /llms-full.txt: the next 30 days of events and every place we have written up, as plain markdown.
• Markdown copies of pages: put /md before an event, place or story path, for example /md/event/<slug>, /md/place/<slug> or /md/blog/<slug>. Each HTML page also links its copy with rel="alternate" type="text/markdown".

GET https://whatsonmnl.com/api/v1/events

With no parameters it returns events on from today to 30 days ahead, soonest first.

• from, to: dates as YYYY-MM-DD, Manila time. Past dates work too.
• category: concert, art, food, festival, comedy, wellness, sport or theatre.
• area: an area such as makati, bgc, poblacion, salcedo, legazpi, rockwell, quezon-city or ortigas. Makati includes its villages.
• q: words that must all appear in the listing.
• limit: 1 to 200, default 50.

Example: /api/v1/events?category=concert&area=bgc

Each event has its title, page URL, date and time as written on the page, start and end timestamps, venue, address, area, ticket link, organiser and lineup where known. A price appears only when it has been confirmed.

GET https://whatsonmnl.com/api/v1/places

• area: as above.
• category: eat, drink, work, culture, nightlife, wellness, museums-culture, fitness, shop or explore.
• q and limit: as above.

Example: /api/v1/places?area=poblacion&category=drink

Both APIs can be called from any website, including from the browser.

https://whatsonmnl.com/events.ics is an iCalendar feed of dated events for the next 120 days. Add it to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook as a subscription. Long exhibitions and weekly listings are left out so they do not fill every day; they are on the calendar page.

A read-only Model Context Protocol server at https://whatsonmnl.com/api/mcp (streamable HTTP, no sign-in). Tools:

• events_this_weekend: Friday to Sunday, with optional area and category.
• events_between: from and to dates, with optional area and category.
• search_events: search upcoming events by words.
• get_event: one event by its slug.
• search_places: search places, with optional area and category.
• get_place: one place by its slug.

Every result includes the page URL to cite. To add it to a client that reads a config file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whatsonmanila": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://whatsonmnl.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}