Tokoro – open, signed event protocol with LLM crawler
Tokoro is an open-source, self-hosted event protocol designed to streamline event discovery across the web. It allows users to extract and curate events from various sources into a shared calendar that can be queried easily. The platform emphasizes user privacy and simplicity, requiring no accounts or personal information for access.
- ▪Tokoro enables users to harvest events from multiple sites and pool them into a geo-located calendar.
- ▪Events can be extracted and published quickly using a browser tool that interacts with a language model.
- ▪The platform operates without requiring user registration, relying instead on a local keypair for identity verification.
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Tokoro Finding out what's on near you is weirdly broken: events are scattered across dozens of sites, buried in social feeds, or locked behind logins. There's no common layer you can just query. This is my attempt to build one — open source, self-hosted, LLM-powered. Live demo of my instance: https://tokoro-query.pages.dev/. If you want to test event extraction tools, contact me for an API key. Tokoro is a thin, collaborative event calendar layer on top of the web. Not a replacement for Eventbrite or Resident Advisor — instead, a way for curators to harvest events from those sites and pool them into a shared geo-located calendar anyone can query. Example: Imagine a loose network of jazz fans spread across a country.
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