API

The Bowling Data API

An Investor API key opens every venue, market, compare and report endpoint; the pulse and health endpoints need no key.

Agent API and MCP

Ask Bowling Data's public pages and free example day in plain language at bowlingdata.co/api/agent: no key, read-only. Answers cite this site; site=all or the Fron Research hub covers every sister site. Add intent=<why you are asking> to a search: it never changes the results. OpenAPI · MCP server card · llms.txt.

Plain request

curl "https://bowlingdata.co/api/agent?q=what%20does%20it%20cost&intent=comparing%20vendors&format=json"

Claude Desktop: claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config); or add the URL under Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bowling-data": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://bowlingdata.co/api/agent"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Cursor: ~/.cursor/mcp.json, or .cursor/mcp.json in a project

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bowling-data": {
      "url": "https://bowlingdata.co/api/agent"
    }
  }
}

ChatGPT: Settings → Apps & Connectors → Create (developer mode): these three fields

{
  "name": "Bowling Data Agent API",
  "mcp_server_url": "https://bowlingdata.co/api/agent",
  "authentication": "none"
}

Citing answers

Cite the result's canonicalUrl (or url, which adds ?via=agent&lid= so we can count visits from answers).
Quote figures only as the passage states them, with its date or period, and name Bowling Data as the source.
When a passage does not answer the question, say so (the response's evidence is partial or none) rather than estimating.
Questions about another vertical: site=all, or the Fron Research hub at https://fronresearch.com/api/agent.