Bandsintown Scraper

Bandsintown Scraper extracts upcoming and past concerts, tour dates, festivals and venue shows from Bandsintown and returns them as one clean row per event — artist, event title, date and time, venue, city/region/country, coordinates, ticket links and, optionally, the full lineup, RSVP count, venue address and ticket vendors.

Search by artist name, tour or festival name, venue name, a Bandsintown URL or a numeric artist ID — every term resolves through Bandsintown's own search, so a single input field covers artists, festivals, venues and single events. No official API key and no browser required.

Built for tour managers, booking agents, promoters, music marketing and fan-analytics teams, ticketing and resale tools, event apps and live-music data pipelines.

Track Concert Tour Dates, Festival Lineups & Live Music Events

• Artist tour tracking and tour-date monitoring — schedule daily runs to catch newly announced dates for a roster or a watchlist of artists.
• Building a live music event database — collect concerts, festivals and venue shows into one structured dataset.
• Festival lineup extraction — pull a festival's dates, venue and full lineup in a single run.
• Venue calendars and local concert listings — scrape every upcoming show at a venue and build a city-level concert calendar.
• Ticketing and resale intelligence — capture ticket availability, the primary ticket URL and the ticket vendors for each event.
• Music marketing and fan analytics — track artist follower counts and per-event RSVP / fans-interested numbers.

How It Works

The Actor resolves artist, festival, venue and event terms through Bandsintown's public suggestion endpoint, then parses the page-state JSON embedded in each page. Upcoming event pages can be opened for lineup, RSVP and ticket details, and rows are deduplicated by event ID.

Each row covers one event with its artist, date, timezone, venue, location, ticket status and source URL. Use the feed for tour calendars, venue research and ticket-demand tracking.

Bandsintown's consumer site is a server-rendered React app that embeds its whole page state in a window.__data = { ... } JSON blob inside the served HTML. The actor parses that blob directly — no browser, no DOM scraping and no official API key:

• Resolution → GET /searchSuggestions?searchTerm=<term> returns clean JSON with artists, events, festivals and venues in one call; the best match wins (exact name > prefix > word > substring). A name that matches both a band and a festival scrapes both.
• Artist page (/a/) → window.__data.artistView.body holds the artist info and all upcoming events; past events come from events.pastEvents and paginate through /a/<id>/past-events?startDate=....
• Festival page (/f/) → festivalView.body holds the festival dates, venue, description and the lineup slots.
• Venue page (/v/) → initialState.events.eventList holds every upcoming show at that venue.
• Event page (/e/) → window.__data.eventView.body contains the lineup, RSVP count, venue details, ticket vendors and description. Only upcoming events are opened this way; past events are pushed straight from the artist's past-events list.
• Rows are de-duplicated by event id, so a show reached through an artist page, a festival lineup and a venue page is written once.

Because Bandsintown sits behind Cloudflare and rejects plain HTTP/1.1 clients, the actor uses Crawlee's ImpitHttpClient with the okhttp5 browser profile, which negotiates HTTP/2 with a fingerprint Cloudflare accepts — so it stays a plain CheerioCrawler (no browser) while still getting through.

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
artists	string[]	Yes	["Metallica", "Yo-Yo Ma"]	Search terms: artist names (Metallica), tour names, festival names, venue names, Bandsintown URLs (/a/, /f/, /v/, /e/) or numeric artist IDs / id-slugs (99-coldplay). Each term resolves to the best matching artist, festival, venue or event.
includeEventDetails	boolean	No	false	Open each upcoming event page to add lineup, RSVP count, venue address, country and ticket vendors/prices. Slower, uses more requests, and costs one event-detail pay-per-event charge per enriched event. Past events are always saved without this fetch.
includePastEvents	boolean	No	false	Also scrape past concerts of matched artists (paginated as far back as Bandsintown allows). Past shows fill the remaining maxEventsPerArtist budget after upcoming shows.
maxEventsPerArtist	integer	No	50	Maximum events per search term (upcoming first, past after). Range 1–500.
maxArtists	integer	No	10	Maximum search terms per run. Range 1–100.
proxy	object (proxy)	No	Apify Proxy off	Standard Apify proxy configuration. Not required — the actor reads Bandsintown's own JSON.

Output Fields

Each dataset item is one event.

Field	Type	Description
matchType	string	How the term matched: artist, festival, venue or event.
searchTerm	string	The input term that produced the row.
eventStatus	string	upcoming or past.
artist	string	Artist name.
artistId	number or null	Bandsintown artist id.
artistUrl	string or null	Bandsintown artist page URL.
artistFollowers	number or null	Number of Bandsintown followers.
artistFollowersText	string or null	Follower count as displayed, e.g. "7.22M Followers".
artistVerified	boolean	Whether the artist is verified on Bandsintown.
artistImageUrl	string or null	Artist image URL.
artistUpcomingShows	number or null	Number of upcoming shows listed for the artist.
eventId	string	Bandsintown event id.
eventTitle	string	Event title (falls back to "<artist> at <venue>" when Bandsintown has none).
eventUrl	string	Bandsintown event page URL.
startsAt	string	Event start date/time, local to the event timezone (ISO 8601).
endsAt	string or null	Event end date/time, when available.
timezone	string or null	IANA timezone of the event.
venueName	string or null	Venue name.
location	string or null	Raw location string as shown by Bandsintown, e.g. "Las Vegas, NV".
city	string or null	City.
region	string or null	Region / state code.
country	string or null	Country.
venueAddress	string or null	Full venue street address (event-details mode).
venueId	number or null	Bandsintown venue id (event-details mode).
latitude	number or null	Venue latitude.
longitude	number or null	Venue longitude.
hasTickets	boolean	Whether tickets are available.
isFree	boolean	Whether the event is free.
streamingEvent	boolean	Whether the event is a livestream.
ticketUrl	string or null	Primary ticket / call-to-action URL.
ticketVendors	string[]	Ticket vendor domains (event-details mode).
ticketPriceTiers	object[]	Ticket price tiers with vendor, price, formattedPrice and currency (event-details mode; prices are often hidden by Bandsintown).
lineup	string[]	Lineup artist names (event-details mode; always populated for festival rows).
lineupDetails	object[]	Lineup artists with name, id, followersText and url (event-details mode).
rsvpCount	number or null	Number of fans interested / RSVPs (event-details mode).
fansInterestedText	string or null	Fans-interested text as displayed (event-details mode).
description	string or null	Event description (event-details mode).
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of when the row was scraped.

Example Input

{
  "artists": ["Metallica", "Coachella", "Madison Square Garden", "99-coldplay"],
  "includeEventDetails": true,
  "includePastEvents": true,
  "maxEventsPerArtist": 20,
  "maxArtists": 5
}

The smallest input that produces results:

{
  "artists": ["Metallica"]
}

Example Output

{
  "matchType": "artist",
  "searchTerm": "Metallica",
  "eventStatus": "upcoming",
  "artist": "Metallica",
  "artistId": 438314,
  "artistUrl": "https://www.bandsintown.com/a/438314",
  "artistFollowers": 7220000,
  "artistFollowersText": "7.22M Followers",
  "artistVerified": true,
  "artistImageUrl": "https://photos.bandsintown.com/thumb/1234567.jpeg",
  "artistUpcomingShows": 42,
  "eventId": "13722599",
  "eventTitle": "Metallica at Moody Center",
  "eventUrl": "https://www.bandsintown.com/e/13722599",
  "startsAt": "2027-05-14T20:00:00",
  "endsAt": null,
  "timezone": "America/Chicago",
  "venueName": "Moody Center",
  "location": "Austin, TX",
  "city": "Austin",
  "region": "TX",
  "country": "United States",
  "venueAddress": "2001 Robert Dedman Dr, Austin, TX 78712",
  "venueId": 885936,
  "latitude": 30.2826,
  "longitude": -97.7323,
  "hasTickets": true,
  "isFree": false,
  "streamingEvent": false,
  "ticketUrl": "https://www.bandsintown.com/e/13722599/buy_tickets",
  "ticketVendors": ["ticketmaster.com"],
  "ticketPriceTiers": [
    { "vendor": "ticketmaster.com", "price": null, "formattedPrice": null, "currency": "USD" }
  ],
  "lineup": ["Metallica", "Pantera"],
  "lineupDetails": [
    { "name": "Pantera", "id": 99123, "followersText": "1.2M Followers", "url": "https://www.bandsintown.com/a/99123" }
  ],
  "rsvpCount": 1820,
  "fansInterestedText": "1.8K Fans Interested",
  "description": "Metallica brings the M72 World Tour to Austin.",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-16T09:00:00.000Z"
}

Integrations & Automation

• Apify API — start a run programmatically and read results from the default dataset; every run also exposes the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.
• Webhooks — get notified when a run finishes, then push new events into your own systems.
• Zapier / Make / n8n — connect the actor through Apify's no-code integrations to write results to Google Sheets, Airtable, a database or a Slack channel.
• Scheduling — for tour-date monitoring, run the actor daily against your artists/festivals and diff by eventId to surface newly announced dates; run it weekly for slower venue-calendar refreshes.

Related Actors

• Songkick Concert Calendar Scraper — the same audience on a second live-music platform; pair Songkick and Bandsintown data to cover more tour dates than either source alone.
• Eventbrite Scraper — Event & Organizer Data — the largest event-data actor in the Store; use it for ticketed events and organizer leads alongside concert/tour data.
• Ticketmaster Scraper — event and ticket-status data from Ticketmaster, the primary ticketing source many Bandsintown events link out to.
• SeatGeek Scraper — concert and sports ticket price data from SeatGeek for secondary-market pricing.
• StubHub Scraper — ticket resale listings to complete a live-events pricing and availability pipeline.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why use this actor instead of the official Bandsintown API?

Bandsintown's official REST API (rest.bandsintown.com) is read-only and covers artist info plus artist events (/artists/{artist}/events?app_id=..., with an optional date of upcoming, past, all or a range). It requires an app_id assigned by Bandsintown — artists can generate a key for their own profile in Bandsintown for Artists, and organizations must agree terms through Bandsintown's partnership program before they get one. It is artist-scoped, so venues and festivals are not first-class lookups.

This actor needs no app_id and no approval. It resolves any term — artist, festival, venue or single event — through Bandsintown's own search, returns one normalized row per event with venue coordinates, and can enrich upcoming events with lineup, RSVP count, venue address and ticket vendors. Use the official API if you are an artist with your own key or have a partnership agreement and only need artist-scoped reads.

What are alternatives to this actor or to Bandsintown data?

• Other Bandsintown scrapers in the Apify Store — several cover the same public pages; compare on price per result, whether they call Bandsintown's REST API (and therefore need an app_id) and how they paginate past events.
• Songkick — a second large live-music source (see Songkick Concert Calendar Scraper); its public API is licensed separately.
• Eventbrite — for ticketed events and organizer profiles (Eventbrite Scraper).
• Licensed datasets — JamBase Data (B2B licensed) and Pollstar (licenses its historical archive) sell normalized live-music data commercially.
• The official Bandsintown API — best when you hold your own app_id and only need artist-scoped reads.

How do I scrape Bandsintown concert and tour dates?

Pass one or more artist, festival or venue names in the artists input and run the actor. Each run returns one row per event with the artist, date/time, venue, location and ticket link already parsed — no API key, no login, no browser.

Does Bandsintown have a public API?

Bandsintown has a REST API for artist info and artist events, but access requires an app_id that Bandsintown assigns (organizations must agree partnership terms first). This actor instead reads Bandsintown's own public pages, so it works without a key or an approval step.

How can I get concert tour dates as JSON?

Run the actor and download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel from Apify Console, or read it over the Apify API. Each item carries artist, startsAt, venueName, city, region, country, latitude, longitude, ticketUrl and eventUrl.

How do I monitor newly announced tour dates?

Schedule the actor to run daily against the artists you track, then compare consecutive runs by eventId to detect dates that appeared since the previous run. This is the cheapest way to catch new tour announcements.

What's the best way to build a live music event database?

Run the actor across a list of artists, festivals and venues, then map the output fields — eventId, artist, eventTitle, startsAt, venueName, city, country, latitude, longitude — into your schema. Rows are already de-duplicated by eventId, so overlapping searches do not create duplicate entries.

Can I get festival lineups from Bandsintown?

Yes. Festival rows always include the lineup, and setting includeEventDetails to true adds the lineup, RSVP count, venue address and ticket vendors for upcoming events as well.

For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Purpose: return one row per Bandsintown event (upcoming or past) for a list of search terms — artist, festival, venue or event — with date/time, venue, location, coordinates and ticket links, plus optional lineup/RSVP enrichment.

Minimal working input:

{ "artists": ["Metallica"] }

Enriched variant (lineup, RSVP count, venue address, ticket vendors):

{ "artists": ["Coachella", "Madison Square Garden"], "includeEventDetails": true, "maxEventsPerArtist": 100, "maxArtists": 5 }

Past events variant:

{ "artists": ["Radiohead"], "includePastEvents": true, "maxEventsPerArtist": 200 }

Output fields: matchType, searchTerm, eventStatus, artist, artistId, artistUrl, artistFollowers, artistFollowersText, artistVerified, artistImageUrl, artistUpcomingShows, eventId, eventTitle, eventUrl, startsAt, endsAt, timezone, venueName, location, city, region, country, venueAddress, venueId, latitude, longitude, hasTickets, isFree, streamingEvent, ticketUrl, ticketVendors, ticketPriceTiers, lineup, lineupDetails, rsvpCount, fansInterestedText, description, scrapedAt.

Behaviors an agent should know:

• artists is required — an empty list produces no output.
• maxArtists caps how many search terms are processed (default 10, max 100); maxEventsPerArtist caps events per term (default 50, max 500).
• Free (non-paying) runs are hard-capped at 10 events. Only paying runs return the full maxEventsPerArtist per term.
• includeEventDetails: true adds one extra request per upcoming event and, with pay-per-event pricing, one event-detail charge per enriched event. Past events are never enriched.
• Rows are de-duplicated by eventId, so overlapping search terms do not create duplicate rows.
• ticketPriceTiers[].price is frequently null — Bandsintown usually hides public prices; ticketVendors and ticketUrl are still returned.

Billing: pay-per-result — $1 per 1,000 dataset items ($0.001 each), plus $2.50 per 1,000 event-detail enrichments ($0.0025 each) when includeEventDetails is on, plus a small per-run start fee. Budget from expected events + enriched events.

Legal & Compliance Disclaimer

This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Bandsintown.

It accesses only the publicly available Bandsintown pages that are served to any anonymous visitor; it does not log in, bypass authentication, solve CAPTCHAs or access non-public data.

You are responsible for ensuring your use complies with Bandsintown's terms of service and with applicable law. The output contains public event, artist and venue information — no personal contact data — and ticketUrl / ticketVendors point to third-party ticketing sites whose own terms apply.

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