What2Watch MCP Server

Real-time TV schedules, streaming availability, and personalized recommendations. Exposed over MCP by the what2watch mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.

What it actually does

Regular AI assistants search the web and return the same "trending on Netflix" lists from 2023. What2Watch MCP plugs directly into your AI, giving it access to:

Its toolset

Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:

• get_recommendation — Get personalized movie and TV recommendations based on your preferences
• search_content — Search for movies and shows by title, actor, director, or keywords
• get_content_details — The get_content_details tool exposed by this server
• get_schedule — Get TV broadcast schedule - what's on live TV right now or later
• get_trending — The get_trending tool exposed by this server
• get_available_sources — The get_available_sources tool exposed by this server

Adding it to your client

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client.

When to reach for it

This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. What2Watch's toolset — get_recommendation, search_content, get_content_details and 3 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by lio1204; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Caveats

• It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
• MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the what2watch mcp server does with a few real requests.