# The Bowling Data API

> An [Investor](https://bowlingdata.co/pricing) 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 [https://bowlingdata.co/api/agent](https://bowlingdata.co/api/agent): no key, read-only. Answers cite this site; `site=all` or the [Fron Research hub](https://fronresearch.com/api/agent) covers every sister site. Add `intent=<why you are asking>` to a search: it never changes the results. [OpenAPI](https://fronresearch.com/data/agent/openapi.json) · [MCP server card](https://bowlingdata.co/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json) · [llms.txt](https://bowlingdata.co/llms.txt).

```sh
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:

```json
{
  "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:

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

### ChatGPT

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

```json
{
  "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.

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Bowling Data — The first market intelligence platform for bowling centers. Canonical page: https://bowlingdata.co/developers · Contact: luke@fronresearch.com · Index for agents: https://bowlingdata.co/llms.txt · Updated 2026-11-09