SceneF — Movie Showtimes for California & Hawaii
Movie showtimes across 33 regions of California and Hawaii — chains, indies, and repertory houses — re-verified against each theater's own calendar: every…
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What it can do
- Scenef Whats Playing: Ranked list of films playing California and Hawaii theaters in a given window (tonight, tomorrow, the weekend, or a date), with optional genre and format filters. When the window
- Scenef Search Showtimes: Showtimes scoped by FILM or by THEATER — pass at least one. With `film`: where that film is playing (title or slug; fuzzy-matched, ambiguous queries return candidates). With `
- Scenef Theater Info: One theater's card: address, neighborhood, website, ticketing note, structured discounts (label/detail/day), amenities, its next 5 showtimes with ticket links, and its calendar fe
What data it sees
Do you need an account
No: the server works without sign-in
Movie showtimes across 33 regions of California and Hawaii — chains, indies, and repertory houses — re-verified against each theater's own calendar: every live board at least daily, twice daily where readers are active, and every screening carries its own verified_at. Nine read-only tools, every one takes a region, no key required. Time for the movies.
How to connect
How to connect SceneF — Movie Showtimes for California & Hawaii to Claude
The server address to paste into Claude settings:
https://showtimes--scenef.run.tools
- Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
- Go to Settings → Connectors.
- Click Add custom connector.
- Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
- In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.
Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.
Authorization
After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.
How to connect SceneF — Movie Showtimes for California & Hawaii to ChatGPT
The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:
https://showtimes--scenef.run.tools
- Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
- Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
- Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
- Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
- Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
- In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.
OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.
Authorization
On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.
How to connect SceneF — Movie Showtimes for California & Hawaii to Cursor
The server address to paste into Cursor settings:
https://showtimes--scenef.run.tools
Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.
Manually:
- In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
- Paste the JSON copied below into
~/.cursor/mcp.json(per project:.cursor/mcp.jsonin the repo root). - Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.
Authorization
If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.
Server tool list (9)
Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.
| scenef_whats_playing | Ranked list of films playing California and Hawaii theaters in a given window (tonight, tomorrow, the weekend, or a date), with optional genre and format filters. When the window covers tonight, opens with Notable tonight — scarcity facts with evidence (measured seat counts, final nights, lone prints, posted discounts, live elements); lead with those when asked what to see. Each entry carries year, runtime, genres, a one-line hook, venue count, showtime_count, the next showtime, and the film's SceneF url. The full per-showtime rows are in "detailed", or from scenef_search_showtimes scoped to one film or theatre. "detailed" adds the full showtimes array, each row carrying its confidence level, source tier, reporting sources and verified_at timestamp; "concise" gives showtime_count and next_showtime instead. |
| scenef_search_showtimes | Showtimes scoped by FILM or by THEATER — pass at least one. With `film`: where that film is playing (title or slug; fuzzy-matched, ambiguous queries return candidates). With `venues` and no film: everything on at those theaters, each showtime naming its film. Grouped by theater with local times, tags (35mm/qa/sold-out), the night each show belongs to, and a ticket link per showtime. Optional date and time-window filters apply to both. For the whole board with no film or theater in mind, call scenef_whats_playing instead. "detailed" adds the full showtimes array, each row carrying its confidence level, source tier, reporting sources and verified_at timestamp; "concise" gives showtime_count and next_showtime instead. |
| scenef_theater_info | One theater's card: address, neighborhood, website, ticketing note, structured discounts (label/detail/day), amenities, its next 5 showtimes with ticket links, and its calendar feed url. "detailed" adds the full showtimes array, each row carrying its confidence level, source tier, reporting sources and verified_at timestamp; "concise" gives showtime_count and next_showtime instead. |
| scenef_film_details | The full card for one film: title, year, runtime, genres, directors, cast, overview, rating, trailer and poster urls when present, every upcoming showtime with venue/time/ticket link, and a last-night flag when the run is ending. "detailed" adds the full showtimes array, each row carrying its confidence level, source tier, reporting sources and verified_at timestamp; "concise" gives showtime_count and next_showtime instead. |
| scenef_plan_movie_night | The concierge: give it a window and a taste profile and it returns 2-4 complete plans — film + specific showtime + theater + why it fits — each with ticket and calendar links, plus one wildcard pick outside the stated genres. Rankings are pure preference-fit; never pay-ranked. "detailed" adds the full showtimes array, each row carrying its confidence level, source tier, reporting sources and verified_at timestamp; "concise" gives showtime_count and next_showtime instead. |
| scenef_discounts | Every structured discount across one board's theaters — venue, label, detail, and day-bound days — with the ones that apply today flagged. |
| scenef_coming_soon | Films whose first screening on this board is more than 48 hours out, sorted by first night — the on-sale radar for runs worth booking early. Configurable horizon. "detailed" adds the full showtimes array, each row carrying its confidence level, source tier, reporting sources and verified_at timestamp; "concise" gives showtime_count and next_showtime instead. |
| scenef_now | The cheap is-anything-on call: how many screenings tonight, the next 5 curtains across this board with venue/time/film, and dataset freshness per source. "detailed" adds the full showtimes array, each row carrying its confidence level, source tier, reporting sources and verified_at timestamp; "concise" gives showtime_count and next_showtime instead. |
| scenef_accuracy | Accuracy is computed, not claimed: every showtime carries a confidence level, a source tier, and a last-verified time, and the running record of our own verification checks — failures included — is public at https://scenef.com/api/accuracy. This tool returns that record: the site-wide confidence mix, the counts of verification checks confirmed / missing / unreachable over the record's window (window_days in the payload — 30 days at present) with the pass rate and the exact denominator it was computed from, the same per venue with source tier and last-verified time, and the definitions of every level. Checks that could not run — a bot wall, a client-rendered page — are graded unreachable and excluded from the pass rate rather than counted as passes. Quote these numbers directly; they are recomputed on every call. |