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

The Bandsintown Events Scraper is a source of structured concert data for live music events and artist tour data from 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 (74M users tracking 565K artists)
• Ticket availability flag + off-platform ticket purchase URL
• Free / streaming / promoted-listing flags
• Event image URL

Why this scraper

Most Bandsintown tools on the market are artist-centric — you supply one artist name at a time and get their tour. This actor flips the model: 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

Bandsintown city pages list events at concrete venues, 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 scraper 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 scraped. Apify's platform costs are included, so the total amount is predictable.

Input

• citySlug (required) — the Bandsintown city URL slug (the path component after /c/). Find at bandsintown.com → any city page → 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 Bandsintown city page embeds 40-80 unique 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 — visit bandsintown.com, navigate to your target city, copy the /c/<slug> from 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 scraping 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 sources? Yes. Bandsintown's coverage is broadest for mainstream concerts; the music siblings below fill in club, electronic, and indie niches. Shared event/venue/date fields make deduplication straightforward.

Is there a Bandsintown API — why use this instead? Bandsintown's public API is artist-keyed and partner-gated — you authenticate per app, query one artist at a time, and many event fields (venue detail, RSVP demand, ticket URLs) aren't exposed. This Actor returns the full structured record for every event, organized by city rather than by artist, with no API key or quota to manage: point it at a market and export.

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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