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For developers

The MCP for snow.

Verified resort snow data, weather forecasts, lift status, and historical data — accessible to any AI assistant in 30 seconds. Free for individual developers. No API key required for the read tier.

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Standards

SnowSure is now discoverable via ARD

SnowSure is ARD-discoverable. Our Agentic Resource Discovery catalog lets AI agents find our MCP server, API, and Answer Engine automatically — no manual setup.

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Install

Plug in, in 30 seconds.

Add Snowdata to your Claude Desktop config. Restart. The MCP tools are now available.

ChatGPT custom GPT, Cursor, Continue, and other agent platforms also supported.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "snowdata": {
      "url": "https://mcp.snowdata.ai"
    }
  }
}

What you can ask

Any AI assistant. Any snow question. Verified source.

The Snowdata MCP gives Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Cursor and any MCP-aware agent direct access to the data the world's resorts have just submitted.

“Where's the best powder this weekend within four hours of Denver?”
“Compare snowfall at Niseko versus Verbier this season.”
“Is Mt Hutt open today? What's the base depth?”
“Plan a five-day ski trip to Argentina in late August — open resorts only.”
“Show me resorts in Colorado with more than 30cm of new snow in the last 48 hours.”

Tools

The MCP toolset.

get_resort

Full profile, lifts, terrain, season pattern.

get_snow_report

Verified snow report with attribution and timestamp.

get_weather_forecast

Multi-day forecast per resort.

get_snow_history

Historical snow data; powers season comparisons.

find_resorts_by_criteria

Filtered search across the network.

find_best_powder

The killer query AI assistants lean on.

plan_ski_trip

Multi-resort itinerary suggestions.

compare_forecasts

Head-to-head between resorts.

get_webcam_status

Live or recent webcam frames where licensed.

get_regional_summary

At-a-glance for journalists and planners.

search_resorts

Natural language resort search.

REST API

HTTP access for apps and data partners.

Travel platforms, insurance products, and research teams can pull verified resort snow data over REST — same network as the MCP, with commercial tiers for scale. Individual read access is free; contact us for enterprise feeds and SLAs.

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Free
Individual

Hobbyists, individual developers, and small projects. No API key required for the read tier. Generous rate limits.

  • · Full MCP toolset
  • · REST API read access
  • · ARD catalog — published at /.well-known/ai-catalog.json so agents discover SnowSure on their own
  • · Community Discord
  • · Reference implementation on GitHub
From $100 / month
Commercial

Travel platforms, consumer apps at scale, enterprise integrations. Stripe-style tiering by query volume.

  • · Higher rate limits + SLA
  • · Historical data access
  • · Signed responses for evidentiary use
  • · Priority support + roadmap input

Open by default

The reference implementation is open source.

The Open Source Snow Spec is an Apache 2.0 community standard for resort snow data — schema, reference MCP server, ingestion adapters, and client libraries. Fork, self-host, audit, or contribute. Snowdata runs the canonical hosted instance; the spec belongs to everyone.

  • · Resort snow report JSON schema (depth, 24h snow, lifts, surface)
  • · Reference MCP server and tool definitions
  • · Ingestion adapters (email, SMS, API, scrape, AI chat)
  • · Validation tooling and client libraries

Public GitHub repositories and opensourcesnow.com docs are rolling out with early partners. Until then, request the spec package or contribution guide from our team.

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