# Songkick Scraper — Concert & Tour Date Data (`aitorsm/songkick-events`) Actor Scrape live concerts and gigs from Songkick by city: event name, date, venue with full address and coordinates, performing artists/lineup, ticket offers and links, organizer, and status. Structured JSON/CSV for tour managers, ticketing, music marketing, and event apps. - **URL**: https://apify.com/aitorsm/songkick-events.md - **Developed by:** [Aitor Sanchez-Mansilla](https://apify.com/aitorsm) (community) - **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools, Travel - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $10.00 / 1,000 results This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? 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For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Songkick Events Scraper — Concert, Artist & Venue Listing Intelligence [![Songkick Events Scraper status](https://apify.com/actor-badge?actor=aitorsm/songkick-events)](https://apify.com/aitorsm/songkick-events) The **Songkick Events Scraper** is a source of structured **concert data** for live music events and tour dates from [Songkick](https://www.songkick.com) — the global directory for live music, tours, and venue calendars. You give it a city (or a Songkick metro-area ID) and it returns a clean, structured row for every upcoming concert in that metro, including: - Concert title, date/time, status, event page URL, and poster image - **Performer lineup** — each act on the bill with its music genres and Songkick artist URL - Full venue record — name, Songkick venue URL, street address, city, region, country, postal code, and latitude/longitude - **Ticket offers** — provider link, availability, on-sale date, price, and currency - Headliner name and a short event description This is a **listings dataset**: every row is a concert. Songkick is artist/venue-centric, so the rows describe *what is playing where and when* — not promoter contact records. There is no organizer/promoter lead entity and no social-handle data on Songkick, so this Actor does not offer (and does not bill for) any contact-enrichment step. What you see is the full concert listing. ### Use Cases #### 1. **Venue & Concert Calendar Intelligence** Pull every upcoming concert in a metro to map which venues are active, how densely they are booked, and what genres dominate the calendar. Useful for venue-discovery tools, hospitality/tourism apps, and local "what's on" products. #### 2. **Artist / Tour Tracking** Each row's `performers[]` array lists every act on the bill with its genres and Songkick artist URL. Track which artists are touring a city, build tour-routing datasets, or feed talent-agency and music-data products. #### 3. **Ticketing & Pricing Signals** The `ticketOffers[]` array carries provider links, availability, on-sale date, price, and currency — useful for price-tracking, on-sale alerting, and resale/secondary-market monitoring. #### 4. **Genre & Scene Mapping** Performer genres plus venue geo coordinates let you map a city's live-music scene by style and neighborhood — input for editorial curation, recommendation engines, and music-tourism research. #### 5. **Cross-Platform Event Database** Combine Songkick concert listings with Eventbrite, Resident Advisor, DICE, and Bandsintown datasets for a unified multi-source live-music view. Shared fields (event name, venue, date, geo) make deduplication straightforward. > **On the roadmap**: venue-specific listing mode and artist-specific tour mode. [Drop me a line](mailto:business@aitorsm.com) if either would unblock a use case — it helps me prioritize. ### Cost This Actor uses simple **pay-per-event** pricing: - **$0.03 per event scraped** There is no enrichment add-on (Songkick exposes no promoter/contact entity to enrich), so the price is just the per-event rate. Apify's platform costs are included, so the total is predictable: a 250-concert metro sweep costs roughly **$7.50**. ### Input - **`city`** — name of a city to pull concerts for (e.g. `"Los Angeles"`, `"London"`, `"New York"`, `"Berlin"`, `"Tokyo"`, `"Barcelona"`). The Actor resolves the name to a Songkick metro-area ID; ~25 major metros are recognized for instant lookup. For an unlisted metro, provide `metroAreaId` instead. - **`metroAreaId`** *(advanced)* — Songkick's numeric metro-area ID. Find it on songkick.com → open a city page → the number in the URL before the country code (e.g. `17835` in `17835-us-los-angeles`). Overrides `city` when set. - **`maxItems`** — maximum number of concerts to return. `0` = uncapped (paginates the entire metro calendar). - **`startPage`** — listing page to begin from (`1` = first/soonest). Usually leave at `1`. #### Sample inputs **Quick city preview**: ```json { "city": "Los Angeles", "maxItems": 20 } ```` **Full metro sweep**: ```json { "city": "London", "maxItems": 0 } ``` **Direct metro-area access** (skips name resolution): ```json { "metroAreaId": 7644, "maxItems": 100 } ``` ### Output The data is returned in **JSON format**, ideal for direct ingestion into analytics platforms, CRMs, dashboards, or downstream pipelines. Every row is one concert. #### Example entry Input: `{ "city": "Los Angeles", "maxItems": 1 }` ```json { "eventId": "42826361", "title": "Yungblud at Greek Theatre", "url": "https://www.songkick.com/concerts/42826361-yungblud-at-greek-theatre", "image": "https://images.sk-static.com/images/media/profile_images/artists/...", "eventDescription": "Yungblud live at Greek Theatre, Los Angeles.", "startDate": "2026-07-18T19:30:00-0700", "endDate": null, "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "venueName": "Greek Theatre", "venueSameAs": "https://www.songkick.com/venues/1730-greek-theatre", "addressLocality": "Los Angeles", "addressRegion": "CA", "addressCountry": "US", "streetAddress": "2700 N Vermont Ave", "postalCode": "90027", "latitude": 34.1197, "longitude": -118.2922, "performers": [ { "name": "Yungblud", "genres": ["alternative rock", "pop punk"], "songkickUrl": "https://www.songkick.com/artists/8455674-yungblud" } ], "organizerName": "Yungblud", "ticketOffers": [ { "url": "https://www.songkick.com/tickets/...", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "validFrom": "2026-03-01T10:00:00-0800", "price": "55.00", "priceCurrency": "USD" } ], "scrapedFromMetroAreaId": 17835, "scrapedFromPage": 1, "scrapedAt": "2026-06-18T09:12:40.184Z" } ``` #### Fields | Field | Purpose | |---|---| | `eventId`, `url`, `title` | Concert identifier, canonical event page URL, and title | | `image`, `eventDescription` | Event poster image and short description | | `startDate`, `endDate`, `eventStatus`, `eventAttendanceMode` | Date/time, schedule status, and on-/offline attendance mode | | `venueName`, `venueSameAs` | Venue name and Songkick venue URL | | `streetAddress`, `addressLocality`, `addressRegion`, `addressCountry`, `postalCode` | Full venue address | | `latitude`, `longitude` | Venue geo coordinates | | **`performers[]`** | Lineup acts — each with `name`, `genres[]`, and `songkickUrl` | | `organizerName` | Headliner artist name (Songkick's "organizer" is the headliner, **not** a promoter/contact) | | **`ticketOffers[]`** | Ticket offers — each with `url`, `availability`, `validFrom`, `price`, `priceCurrency` | | `scrapedFromMetroAreaId`, `scrapedFromPage`, `scrapedAt` | Source metro/page + capture timestamp (audit metadata) | #### Simplified Overview A simplified view of this data is shown directly in the **Apify console**: ```json { "title": "Yungblud at Greek Theatre", "venueName": "Greek Theatre", "performers": [{ "name": "Yungblud", "genres": ["alternative rock"] }], "startDate": "2026-07-18T19:30:00-0700", "url": "https://www.songkick.com/concerts/42826361-yungblud-at-greek-theatre" } ``` *** ### How to Use 1. **Pick a city** — type a major city (LA, London, New York, Berlin, Tokyo, ~25 in fast lookup), or pass a `metroAreaId` directly. 2. **Set `maxItems`** — a small number for a quick test, `0` for the metro's full forward calendar. 3. **Run the Actor** — check the Overview tab to see concerts as they arrive. 4. **Export the dataset** — JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML. *** Start pulling Songkick concert listings 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 date, venue, full lineup (each act + genres), ticket offers, and geo coordinates. One row per concert. **Does it give me promoter or organizer contacts?** No. Songkick is artist/venue-centric — the "organizer" is the headliner, not a bookable promoter, and there are no contact records on the platform. For organizer/venue contacts, pair this with the [Email Extractor](https://apify.com/aitorsm/email-extractor) on venue websites, or use a contact-bearing source like [Eventbrite](https://apify.com/aitorsm/eventbrite). **Can I build a multi-source live-music dataset?** Yes. Concert data here shares event/venue/date/geo fields with the music siblings below, so deduplicating across platforms is straightforward. **Is there a Songkick API — why use this instead?** Songkick's API is gated behind a key and approval, rate-limited, and omits many of the fields you actually want (full lineups, ticket offers, geo). This Actor returns the complete structured record for every concert — date, venue, lineup with genres, ticket offers, and coordinates — with no API key and no quota: point it at a city and export to JSON, CSV, or Excel. ### Related Actors Build a cross-platform live-music and event-data pipeline by combining Songkick with these: - [Resident Advisor](https://apify.com/aitorsm/ra-events) — electronic music events, club nights, and festival listings. - [DICE](https://apify.com/aitorsm/dice-events) — concert and venue data with ticketing signals. - [Bandsintown](https://apify.com/aitorsm/bandsintown-events) — city-wide concert discovery with artist tour data + RSVP demand signals. - [Eventbrite](https://apify.com/aitorsm/eventbrite) — broad event data and organizer listings across every category. - [Luma Events](https://apify.com/aitorsm/luma-events) — tech, startup, and community event data. - [Email Extractor](https://apify.com/aitorsm/email-extractor) — turn venue or organizer websites into emails and phone numbers. ### Contact - **Email**: — for custom features, advanced filtering, tailored data products, or anything off-spec. - **Apify Discord**: find me as `aitor.sm`. If this actor has been useful to you, please consider adding it to your bookmarks 📑 on Apify. # Actor input Schema ## `city` (type: `string`): City to pull concerts for (e.g. "Los Angeles", "London"). Resolves to a Songkick metro-area ID. For unlisted metros, provide `metroAreaId` directly. ## `metroAreaId` (type: `integer`): Songkick numeric metro-area ID. Find it at songkick.com → city page → URL (number before the country code, e.g. 17835-us-los-angeles). Overrides `city` when set. ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of events to return. 0 = uncapped (paginates all available). ## `startPage` (type: `integer`): Listing page to begin pagination from (1 = first/newest). Usually leave at 1. ## Actor input object example ```json { "city": "Los Angeles", "maxItems": 100, "startPage": 1 } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `overview` (type: `string`): No description # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "city": "Los Angeles", "maxItems": 100 }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("aitorsm/songkick-events").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "city": "Los Angeles", "maxItems": 100, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("aitorsm/songkick-events").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "city": "Los Angeles", "maxItems": 100 }' | apify call aitorsm/songkick-events --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=aitorsm/songkick-events", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Songkick Scraper — Concert & Tour Date Data", "description": "Scrape live concerts and gigs from Songkick by city: event name, date, venue with full address and coordinates, performing artists/lineup, ticket offers and links, organizer, and status. 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