How to Connect Eventbrite to Gemini via MCP

💡 No install? Use cloud.anythingmcp.com directly. Sign in, click Connectors → Eventbrite, paste your credentials, mint an MCP API key and you're done. No Docker, no git clone, no local server.

Eventbrite + Gemini

Let your AI work with Eventbrite: list your events, attendees with check-in state, orders, ticket types, venues, discount codes and sales reports, and create, update and publish events, tickets, venues and event descriptions after you confirm.

Prerequisites

See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:

EVENTBRITE_PRIVATE_TOKEN

Step 1 — Get credentials

1. Sign in to Eventbrite and open Account settings → Developer links → API keys (https://www.eventbrite.com/platform/api-keys). If there is no key yet, click Create API key and fill in the short form.
2. Copy the Private token (not the API key, the client secret or the public token) into EVENTBRITE_PRIVATE_TOKEN, without the word Bearer, and install the connector. The token is sent only to Eventbrite.
3. Check the setup with eventbrite_get_current_user, then eventbrite_list_my_organizations: almost every tool needs the organization id from there (it is not the organizer id from a profile URL).

Who sees what: the token acts as the Eventbrite user who created it, with all of their organizations. Share the MCP server only with people allowed to see attendees and orders.

What it reads: your organizations and their events (upcoming by default, past or all on request), event details and the long description, ticket types with price, capacity and sales, attendees with their check-in state, orders per event or across the organization with the full cost breakdown, saved venues, discount, access and promo codes, and sales reports by day, ticket type, payment method, country or sales channel.

No public event search: Eventbrite removed public event search from its API in 2019, so no connector can search all events on Eventbrite. This one works with the events of your own organizations: it lists, analyses, builds and publishes them.

Building an event, after your yes: the AI saves a venue with eventbrite_create_venue (or picks one with eventbrite_list_venues), creates the event as a draft with eventbrite_create_event, adds ticket types with eventbrite_create_ticket_class and the description with eventbrite_set_event_description, and puts the event live with eventbrite_publish_event. It shows you each step and waits for your confirmation; the same goes for eventbrite_update_event, eventbrite_update_ticket_class and eventbrite_unpublish_event. Setting the description replaces all of its blocks, images and videos included, so the AI reads the current one first. Publishing needs a description, an organizer, at least one ticket type and, for paid tickets, payout settings in Eventbrite.

Switched off at install: eventbrite_cancel_event and eventbrite_delete_event. An administrator turns them on deliberately. Both work only while an event has no orders, and the same is true for unpublishing.

Dates and prices: times are sent in UTC together with the event timezone (such as Europe/Berlin). Ticket prices are written as currency and amount in the smallest unit: EUR,2500 is 25.00 EUR. A ticket's price cannot change once tickets were sold, and the event currency cannot change once paid tickets were sold.

Limits: Eventbrite allows 2,000 calls an hour per token.

Common errors: 401 INVALID_AUTH: the token is wrong or revoked, or the API key was pasted instead of the private token. 403 NOT_AUTHORIZED: your user has no permission for this organization or event. 400 ARGUMENTS_ERROR and similar: a field is invalid, and the answer names it (for example DATE_CONFLICT or CANNOT_UNPUBLISH). 404 NOT_FOUND: no such event, order or organization for this user. 429 HIT_RATE_LIMIT: the hourly limit is reached; wait and retry.

The connector does not cover refunds, check-in through the API, inventory tiers and reserved seating, ticket groups, custom questions, webhooks, media upload, series schedules or copying events.

Step 2 — Install the adapter

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

Step 3 — Add the connector in Gemini

Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide shows YOUR_SERVER_ID.

Gemini CLI reads MCP servers from ~/.gemini/settings.json (on Windows %USERPROFILE%\.gemini\settings.json). Add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anythingmcp": {
      "httpUrl": "https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID",
      "headers": { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_MCP_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

1. Create an MCP API key in AnythingMCP under MCP Servers → your server → API keys, and paste it in place of YOUR_MCP_API_KEY.
2. Save the file and restart gemini.
3. Run /mcp inside Gemini CLI (or gemini mcp list in your shell): anythingmcp should show as connected.
4. Start prompting: Gemini CLI can now call the Eventbrite tools.

Available tools

Example prompts

• "How many tickets have we sold for our next event, by ticket type, and how many are left?"
• "Show me gross sales and fees for all our events last month, by day."
• "Who bought a ticket for Saturday's workshop but has not checked in yet?"
• "Which discount codes exist for our summer conference, and how often has each been used?"
• "Create a draft event called Product Meetup Berlin on 20 November from 18:00 to 21:00 Berlin time at our saved venue, with 80 free tickets. Show me everything before you create it."

FAQ

Where does Gemini CLI look for MCP servers? In ~/.gemini/settings.json for your user, or in .gemini/settings.json inside a project. gemini mcp list shows each server and whether it connects.

Next steps

• Connector landing page
• Connect to Claude
• Connect to ChatGPT