BestTime

live GeospatialData

Foot-traffic / venue busyness forecasts by hour and day, plus live busyness. BYO key.

3 tools

0ms auth

free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

besttime_forecast

How busy is <venue> by hour/day (foot-traffic forecast) — creates a busyness forecast for a public venue (restaurant, bar, gym, store, museum) by name + address. Returns the 24-hour busyness curve (0-

No parameters required.

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Response

besttime_query

Busyness for a venue at a specific hour or day — reads an already-forecasted venue (by venue_id from besttime_forecast). Pass `hour` for a single hour, or omit it to get the whole day's curve. Example

No parameters required.

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Response

besttime_live

Is <venue> busy right now vs usual — returns live foot-traffic busyness compared to the forecasted level for this hour. Identify the venue by venue_id, or by venue_name + venue_address. Example: bestt

No parameters required.

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Response

Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools

bash

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/besttime/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Call a tool

bash

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/besttime/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"besttime_forecast","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("besttime_forecast", {});

ask_pipeworx

// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("foot-traffic / venue busyness forecasts by hour and day, plus live busyness");

Related packs

Other Pipeworx packs in the same categories (Geospatial, Data):

MCP Config

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-besttime": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/besttime/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}