Bandsintown Events — City-Wide Concert Discovery with Venue + Artist + RSVP Data

Bandsintown Events delivers structured concert data for live music events and artist tour dates on Bandsintown — it returns every upcoming concert for a city in one run. Each event returns:

• Event ID + Bandsintown event URL
• Artist name + Bandsintown artist profile URL
• Venue name + start time + timezone
• RSVP count — Bandsintown's primary popularity signal
• Ticket availability flag + off-platform ticket purchase URL
• Free / streaming / promoted-listing flags
• Event image URL

Why this Actor

Instead of looking up one artist at a time, one city returns every upcoming concert in that city (typically 40-80 events per run). Useful when you want to:

• Map a city's full concert calendar without iterating through artists
• Discover venues actively programming live music
• Surface ticket-purchase URLs across promoters (Bandsintown links out to Ticketmaster, AXS, Eventbrite, DICE, See Tickets, etc.)
• Get RSVP signals (Bandsintown's "tracking" count is a leading indicator of demand)

Use Cases

1. Venue + Promoter Lead Generation

Each Bandsintown event is tied to a concrete venue, with ticket links pointing to whoever sells the tickets (Ticketmaster, AXS, EB, DICE, etc.). Cross-reference the ticket-URL domain to surface which venues are locked into which ticketing platform — direct input for ticketing-platform BD targeting.

2. Concert + Tour Market Intelligence

Track which artists are playing which venues at what RSVP demand levels. Useful for talent agencies, label A&R, music-marketing SaaS, and tour-routing analytics.

3. City-Level Music-Scene Health Tracking

Run the Actor weekly per city and diff: which venues are seeing rising RSVP counts? Which acts are filling rooms? Strong signal for music journalists, tourism boards, and music-industry research.

4. Cross-Platform Concert Aggregation

Combine Bandsintown output with Resident Advisor, DICE, Songkick, and Eventbrite datasets for a unified "every paid music event in the city" feed. Bandsintown's coverage is broadest for mainstream concerts; the others fill in club/electronic/indie niches.

5. Ticket-Marketplace Competitive Tracking

The ticketUrl field exposes the off-platform ticketing partner for each event. Aggregate over many cities to track Ticketmaster vs AXS vs SeatGeek vs indie ticketers share of voice on Bandsintown.

6. Streaming-Era Tour Strategy

The streamingEvent flag separates virtual events from physical ones. Useful for music-streaming platforms tracking live-events strategy.

On the roadmap: per-artist mode (artist name → full tour), date-range filtering, per-event detail enrichment (artist socials, additional lineup info). Drop me a line if any of these would unblock a use case.

Cost

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing — you pay only for events actually returned. Apify's platform costs are included, so the total amount is predictable.

Input

• citySlug (required) — the Bandsintown city slug (the part after /c/ in a Bandsintown city URL).
  • Examples: los-angeles-ca, new-york-ny, chicago-il, london-uk, berlin-germany, paris-france, tokyo-japan, mexico-city, barcelona-spain.
• maxItems — cap on events returned. 0 = uncapped. A typical city has 40-80 unique upcoming events.

Sample input

{ "citySlug": "los-angeles-ca", "maxItems": 50 }

Output

The data is returned in JSON format, ideal for direct ingestion into analytics platforms, CRMs, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.

Example entry

{
  "eventId": "1036940867",
  "eventUrl": "https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1036940867-iron-maiden-at-bmo-stadium",
  "artistName": "Iron Maiden",
  "artistUrl": "https://www.bandsintown.com/a/1301-iron-maiden",
  "venueName": "BMO Stadium",
  "startsAt": "2026-09-25T18:15:00",
  "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles",
  "rsvpCount": 904,
  "hasTickets": true,
  "isFree": false,
  "promoted": true,
  "streamingEvent": false,
  "ticketUrl": "https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1036940867-iron-maiden-at-bmo-stadium",
  "imageUrl": "https://media.bandsintown.com/300x300/22808209.webp",
  "scrapedFromCitySlug": "los-angeles-ca",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-23T02:44:40.979Z"
}

Fields

Field	Purpose
eventId, eventUrl	Bandsintown event identifiers + canonical URL
artistName, artistUrl	Primary act for the event + their Bandsintown profile
venueName, startsAt, timezone	Venue + start (local ISO + IANA timezone)
rsvpCount	Bandsintown "I'm going" count (popularity signal)
hasTickets, isFree, streamingEvent	Availability + event-type flags
promoted	True for paid-placement listings (Bandsintown's sponsored slots)
ticketUrl	Off-platform ticket purchase URL (Ticketmaster / AXS / EB / DICE / etc.)
imageUrl	Event/artist image
scrapedFromCitySlug, scrapedAt	Audit metadata

Simplified Overview

A simplified view of this data is shown directly in the Apify console:

{
  "artistName": "Iron Maiden",
  "imageUrl": "https://media.bandsintown.com/300x300/22808209.webp",
  "startsAt": "2026-09-25T18:15:00",
  "venueName": "BMO Stadium",
  "rsvpCount": 904,
  "hasTickets": true,
  "isFree": false,
  "ticketUrl": "https://www.bandsintown.com/...",
  "eventUrl": "https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1036940867-..."
}

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How to Use

1. Find the city slug — open your target city on Bandsintown and copy the /c/<slug> part of the URL.
2. Set maxItems — leave at 0/blank to grab everything (~40-80/city), or cap for previews.
3. Run the Actor — typical run time is ~10-15 seconds per city.
4. Export the dataset — JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

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Start collecting Bandsintown concerts today by running this Actor on Apify.

FAQ

What does this Actor return? Structured concert data for a city: every upcoming live-music event with its artist, venue, start time, RSVP demand signal, and the off-platform ticket-purchase URL. One row per event, ~40-80 per city.

Is this artist tour data or city data? Both angles are covered from a city run — each event names its artist + links their profile, so a city sweep doubles as a snapshot of which artists are touring through that market.

Can I combine it with other concert datasets? Yes. Bandsintown's coverage is broadest for mainstream concerts; the related Actors below fill in club, electronic, and indie niches. Shared event/venue/date fields make deduplication straightforward.

Related Actors

Build a cross-platform live-music and event-data pipeline by combining Bandsintown with these:

• Songkick — concert data with full lineups, venues, and tour dates.
• Resident Advisor — electronic music events, club nights, and festival listings.
• DICE — concert and venue data with ticketing signals.
• Eventbrite — broad event data and organizer listings across every category.
• Luma Events — tech, startup, and community event data.
• Email Extractor — turn venue or promoter websites into emails and phone numbers.

Contact

• Email: business@aitorsm.com — for custom features, advanced filtering, tailored data products, or anything off-spec.
• Apify Discord: find me as aitor.sm.

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