Resident Advisor Events Scraper — Electronic Music Lead-Gen with Enriched Promoter Data

The Resident Advisor Events Scraper extracts structured event data from Resident Advisor (RA.co) — the global directory for electronic music events, clubs, festivals, and promoters. Each scraped event returns:

• Event title, date, start/end time, RA event URL, flyer image
• Enriched promoter (organizer) data — name, RA profile URL, website, social links (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, SoundCloud), follower count, upcoming events count, area, country, blurb, festival flag. The one feature competing RA scrapers don't expose.
• Full venue record — name, RA venue URL, live-status flag
• Artist lineup (every act on the bill, with their RA artist IDs and names)
• Ticket availability + interested count (RSVP-equivalent for the electronic music crowd)
• Editorial "pick" blurb when RA features the event

Why this scraper

Resident Advisor is where indie electronic-music promoters publish their entire programming calendar. With enrichPromoters on (default), every event comes back as a self-contained lead row — the promoter's name, website, social links, audience size, and activity level — so there's no follow-up enrichment step to run.

Use Cases

1. Electronic-Music Promoter Lead Generation

Pull every active promoter in a city ranked by followerCount + upcomingEventsCount. Direct input for ticketing-platform BD (Posh, vivenu, Ticket Fairy, Showpass), event-marketing CRMs (Audience Republic, Bizzabo), and music-industry sponsorship outreach.

2. Festival + Club Booking Intelligence

Each event carries the full venue record. Run the scraper for London / Berlin / Barcelona / Tokyo to map the active club ecosystem — useful for booking agents, music-tech vendors, and AV / production companies.

3. Artist / DJ Tracking

Each event's artists[] array gives every act on the lineup. Useful for talent agencies (which DJs are headlining where), labels (gauging act-deployment frequency), and music-data SaaS.

4. Cross-Platform Organizer Database

Combine RA output with Eventbrite, Posh, Luma, and DICE datasets for unified multi-source organizer intelligence. RA covers the global electronic-music niche that those platforms don't index deeply.

5. Sponsorship + Brand Activation Targeting

Filter for interestedCount > X + isFestival: true → list of high-traffic festival promoters who'd consider sponsorship deals.

6. Editorial / Press Picks Aggregation

The editorialPickBlurb field surfaces events RA's editorial team has highlighted — useful for press-coverage tracking, taste-making research, and curation-as-a-service products.

7. Audience-Size Validation for Underwriting

Promoter followerCount + upcomingEventsCount are signals an underwriter can use to assess whether a festival/promoter is a legitimate operator (vs. someone running their first event). Direct input for credit-underwriting products like Ticket Fairy Capital.

On the roadmap: per-event genre filtering, a venue-specific input mode, and event-ID lookup. Drop me a line if any of these would unblock a use case — it helps me prioritize.

Cost

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing:

• $0.03 per event scraped
• $0.02 per unique promoter enriched — only charged when enrichPromoters is on (the default), and only once per promoter per run (deduplicated across all events). Turn enrichPromoters off to pay for events alone.

Apify's platform costs are included, so the total is predictable. A typical city sweep of 250 events with enrichment on costs roughly $7.50 (events) + ~$4 (promoters) ≈ $11.70 for ~200 enriched promoter leads with names, websites, social links, and follower counts.

Input

• city — name of any major RA-covered city (e.g. "Los Angeles", "London", "Berlin", "Barcelona", "Tokyo", "Berlin", "Mexico City"). The actor resolves the name against RA's areaId table — ~40 major cities are hardcoded for instant lookup, others fall back to a runtime catalog query.
• areaId (advanced) — RA's internal numeric area ID. Pass this directly if you have it (skips the city-resolution lookup). E.g. 23 for LA, 13 for London, 34 for Berlin.
• listingDateGte — earliest event date to include (YYYY-MM-DD). Defaults to today.
• listingDateLte — latest event date to include (YYYY-MM-DD). Leave empty for no upper bound.
• maxItems — global cap on events returned (deduped across all paginated pages). 0 = uncapped.
• enrichPromoters (boolean, default true) — when true, each event's promoters[] array is enriched with full detail (name, website, social links — Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, SoundCloud — follower count, upcoming events count, blurb, area, country, isFestival). Enriched once per unique promoter and cached for the run. Recommended for lead-generation use cases — without it you only get promoter IDs.

Sample inputs

Quick city preview:

{ "city": "Los Angeles", "maxItems": 20 }

Wide lead-gen sweep (2 months of LA events, enriched promoters):

{
  "city": "Los Angeles",
  "listingDateGte": "2026-06-01",
  "listingDateLte": "2026-07-31",
  "maxItems": 500,
  "enrichPromoters": true
}

Direct area access (London by ID, skips lookup):

{ "areaId": 13, "maxItems": 100 }

Output

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

Example entry

Input: { "city": "Los Angeles", "maxItems": 1, "enrichPromoters": true }

{
  "eventId": "2384905",
  "listingDate": "2026-05-23",
  "areaId": 23,
  "name": "Into The Woods presents Ben UFO (Extended Set)",
  "date": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000",
  "startTime": "2026-05-23T22:00:00.000",
  "endTime": "2026-05-24T04:00:00.000",
  "url": "https://ra.co/events/2384905",
  "contentUrl": "/events/2384905",
  "flyerFront": "https://static.ra.co/images/events/flyer/...",
  "isTicketed": true,
  "interestedCount": 423,
  "venueId": "139125",
  "venueName": "Sound Nightclub",
  "venueUrl": "https://ra.co/clubs/139125",
  "venueLive": true,
  "promoterIds": ["65088"],
  "promoterNames": ["Into The Woods LA"],
  "promoters": [
    {
      "id": "65088",
      "name": "Into The Woods LA",
      "url": "https://ra.co/promoters/65088",
      "blurb": "Into The Woods is a music series, label, and collective that bridges the sonic gap between Los Angeles, Detroit and beyond to amplify diverse voices in electronic dance music.",
      "logoUrl": "https://static.ra.co/images/promoter/us-intothewoods.jpg",
      "coverUrl": null,
      "website": "https://www.facebook.com/intothewoodsrecordings/",
      "followerCount": 1076,
      "upcomingEventsCount": 0,
      "isFestival": false,
      "areaName": "Los Angeles",
      "countryName": "United States of America",
      "socialMediaLinks": [
        { "platform": "instagram", "link": "https://instagram.com/intothewoodsla" },
        { "platform": "facebook", "link": "https://facebook.com/intothewoodsrecordings" },
        { "platform": "twitter", "link": "https://twitter.com/intothewoodsla" }
      ],
      "instagram": "https://instagram.com/intothewoodsla",
      "facebook": "https://facebook.com/intothewoodsrecordings",
      "twitter": "https://twitter.com/intothewoodsla",
      "soundcloud": null
    }
  ],
  "artists": [
    { "id": "5294", "name": "Ben UFO" }
  ],
  "ticketsAvailable": 2,
  "editorialPickBlurb": null,
  "imageUrl": "us/2026/5/us-0523-into-the-woods-flyer.jpg",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-23T02:18:40.184Z"
}

Fields

Field	Purpose
eventId, contentUrl, url	RA event identifiers + canonical URL
title, date, startTime, endTime	Event basics
flyerFront, imageUrl	Event flyer URLs
isTicketed, interestedCount, ticketsAvailable	Availability + popularity signals
venueId, venueName, venueUrl, venueLive	Venue record
promoters[]	When enrichPromoters=true: full promoter records with name, website, social links (socialMediaLinks[] + flat instagram/facebook/twitter/soundcloud), follower count, upcoming events count, blurb, area, country, isFestival. When false: just IDs.
promoterIds[], promoterNames[]	Convenience flat arrays for filtering / joining
artists[]	Lineup acts [{id, name}]
editorialPickBlurb	RA editorial-pick blurb when featured
listingDate, scrapedAt	Audit metadata

Simplified Overview

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

{
  "name": "Into The Woods presents Ben UFO (Extended Set)",
  "flyerFront": "https://static.ra.co/images/events/flyer/...",
  "date": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000",
  "venueName": "Sound Nightclub",
  "promoterNames": ["Into The Woods LA"],
  "artists": [{"id":"5294","name":"Ben UFO"}],
  "interestedCount": 423,
  "isTicketed": true,
  "url": "https://ra.co/events/2384905"
}

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How to Use

1. Pick a city — type any major RA-covered city (LA, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Tokyo, ~40+ in fast lookup).
2. Set a date range — defaults to "today onwards"; tighten for narrower scrape windows.
3. Keep enrichPromoters: true — that's the lead-gen feature.
4. Set maxItems — 100 for a quick test, thousands for a city's full forward calendar.
5. Run the Actor — check the Overview tab to see events as they arrive.
6. Export the dataset — JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

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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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