LUX Event Listings Scraper

Returns: one row per LUX event with title, startDate, endDate, timeText, venue, eventTypes, bookingUrl and url. Input: {"startUrls": [{"url": "https://lux.org.uk/whats-on/"}], "maxItems": 10} Best for: London art and film event listings, cultural programme monitoring, archive research on artists' moving image events back to 2011.

{
    "title": "Palestine Cinema Days Around the World: Blessed Blessed Oblivion & With Hasan in Gaza",
    "startDate": "2026-11-02",
    "endDate": "2026-11-02",
    "timeText": "16:00",
    "venue": "Mosaic Rooms",
    "eventTypes": ["Screening/Talk"],
    "bookingUrl": "https://tzkrti.com/en/events/4873",
    "url": "https://lux.org.uk/event/palestine-cinema-days-around-the-world-blessed-blessed-oblivion-with-hasan-in-gaza/"
}

What does LUX Events Scraper do?

LUX Events Scraper collects the events published on lux.org.uk, the website of LUX, the London agency for artists' moving image. That means screenings, artist talks, exhibitions, workshops, symposia, performances, reading groups and the online lecture series, from the newest listing back to the first events of 2011. It reads public pages only, with no login.

You can point it at the What's On listing, an event type archive, a year archive, a site search or single event pages, or skip URLs and filter by event type, year or keyword directly. Unlike the What's On page, which shows nine events per screen in publish order, this LUX scraper enumerates every event through the site's WordPress REST API, so a run with a large enough maxItems returns the complete programme.

What data can you get from LUX?

Field	Description	Example
id	WordPress post id of the event, as a string. Unique within a run.	"109550"
url	The event page on lux.org.uk.	https://lux.org.uk/event/showing-up/
slug	The event's URL slug.	showing-up
title	Event title as shown on the site, entities decoded, line breaks as spaces.	Showing Up
eventTypes	Names of the event's types. Empty for a few early events.	["Education", "Lecture"]
eventTypeSlugs	Slugs of the same types, usable as the eventType input.	["education", "lecture"]
yearTag	Programme year the site files the event under, 2017 onwards.	2026
excerpt	Short summary of the event.	'Showing Up' brings together films, performances and works ...
description	Full event description as plain text.	To launch our new series of monthly exhibitions ...
contentHtml	Full event description as HTML. Omitted when includeContentHtml is false.	<p>To launch our new series ...</p>
imageUrl	URL of the featured image.	https://lux.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/IMG_6231-copy-scaled.jpg
publishedAt	When the event was published, ISO 8601 UTC.	2026-08-20T13:40:06Z
modifiedAt	When the event page was last modified, ISO 8601 UTC.	2026-08-20T13:41:47Z
startDateText	Start date exactly as the page shows it.	13 September, 2026
startDate	Start date as YYYY-MM-DD.	2026-09-13
endDateText	End date as shown; the start date for single-day events.	10 February, 2018
endDate	End date as YYYY-MM-DD.	2018-02-10
timeText	Time or opening hours exactly as shown. Missing for some early events.	Wed-Sat, 12pm – 4pm
venue	Venue or address lines from the event header, joined with commas.	LUX, Waterlow Park Centre, Dartmouth Park Hill, London, N19 5JF, UK
bookingUrl	Link behind the booking button; null when the page has none (usual for exhibitions and past events).	https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/showing-up-tickets-1998482105776
bookingLabel	Text of the booking button.	BOOK
isUpcoming	True when the end date (or start date) is today or later, UTC; null when no date is shown.	true
scrapedAt	When the row was collected, ISO 8601 UTC.	2026-10-13T13:21:31.075Z
sourceUrl	Page or API endpoint the row came from.	https://lux.org.uk/event/showing-up/

How to use LUX Events Scraper

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console and leave the prefilled What's On URL in LUX URLs to get the newest events, or paste another lux.org.uk URL: an event type archive such as https://lux.org.uk/event_catogories/exhibition/, a year archive such as https://lux.org.uk/years/2017/, a search such as https://lux.org.uk/?s=workshop, or single event pages.
2. Or leave the URLs empty and use the Filters section: pick an Event type, type a Year or a Search keyword, or tick Upcoming events only to get just the programme still to come.
3. Set Maximum events. The run stops as soon as that many events are saved. Use 0 to get every matching event (about 750 for the whole programme, which takes roughly ten minutes).
4. Click Start. Events appear in the dataset as they are collected, newest first.
5. Export from the Storage tab as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS, or read the dataset through the API.

The default Apify Proxy (datacenter) is enough: lux.org.uk answers it normally. If a run ends with 0 events and the log shows HTTP 403 or a block page, the site has started challenging that proxy group; retry later or switch the proxy configuration to a residential group.

Scheduling a daily run with upcomingOnly: true keeps a current list of what is on at LUX; a monthly run with the full listing and a higher maxItems keeps an archive up to date (events are added a few times a month and changes are reflected in modifiedAt).

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrls	array of {url}	No	lux.org.uk URLs to collect events from: What's On, an event type archive, a year archive, a site search or an event page. Empty means all events.
eventUrls	array of strings	No	Same as startUrls, as plain strings, for pasting lists of event pages.
eventIds	array of strings	No	Positive WordPress IDs from previous results; processed after URLs with the same shared limit and deduplication.
eventType	string	No	Event type slug such as screening-talk, exhibition, workshop, education, performance, online-exhibition, in-dialogue or lux-salon. Empty means every type.
category	string	No	Alias of eventType; also accepts a type name such as Screening/Talk.
year	string	No	Programme year, 2017 to the current year, e.g. 2017.
search	string	No	Keyword searched in titles and descriptions, e.g. workshop.
dateFrom, dateTo	strings	No	Inclusive event interval overlap with YYYY-MM-DD bounds; empty means no bound. Undated events are excluded.
dateScanLimit	integer	No	Newest events examined per target for date windows, 1-1000, default 100. With upcomingOnly, the smaller scan limit applies.
upcomingOnly	boolean	No	Keep only events whose end date is today or later. Default false.
upcomingScanLimit	integer	No	How many of the newest events to examine when upcomingOnly is on, 1-1000, default 100.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum events across all inputs, 0-10000, default 50; 0 means every matching event.
includeContentHtml	boolean	No	Include the contentHtml field. Default true.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Proxy settings. Default: Apify Proxy, datacenter group.

Filters combine: eventType plus year plus search narrows the list down to events matching all three. Type, year and keyword filters apply to listings; date windows and upcomingOnly also apply to individual URLs and IDs. Several URLs run in order and share maxItems; an event that appears under two inputs is returned once.

{
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://lux.org.uk/whats-on/" }],
    "eventType": "",
    "year": "",
    "search": "",
    "upcomingOnly": false,
    "upcomingScanLimit": 100,
    "maxItems": 50,
    "includeContentHtml": true,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

A search for the next exhibitions, as an agent or an API caller would send it:

{ "eventType": "exhibition", "upcomingOnly": true, "maxItems": 10 }

Date windows use event dates rather than publication dates. An exhibition starting before dateFrom remains eligible if it ends during the window. Narrow older scans with year; raise dateScanLimit if necessary. Events are examined in publication order. For example, {"year":"2026","dateFrom":"2026-10-01","dateTo":"2026-12-31","maxItems":10} selects autumn programme events. To refresh a known event, send its dataset id in eventIds; unknown IDs produce warnings without error rows.

Output

Three real rows from a run on 13 October 2026, with long text shortened:

[
    {
        "id": "109219",
        "url": "https://lux.org.uk/event/showing-up/",
        "slug": "showing-up",
        "title": "Showing Up",
        "eventTypes": ["Festival"],
        "eventTypeSlugs": ["festival"],
        "yearTag": "2026",
        "excerpt": "'Showing Up' brings together films, performances and works by artists and filmmakers from the LUX London Critical Forum 25/26. ...",
        "description": "'Showing Up' brings together films, performances and works by artists and filmmakers from the LUX London Critical Forum 25/26. To show up is a simple thing. ...",
        "contentHtml": "<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;Showing Up&#8217; brings together films, performances and works by artists and filmmakers from the LUX London Critical Forum 25/26.</p> ...",
        "imageUrl": "https://lux.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/IMG_6231-copy-scaled.jpg",
        "publishedAt": "2026-08-20T13:40:06Z",
        "modifiedAt": "2026-08-20T13:41:47Z",
        "startDateText": "13 September, 2026",
        "startDate": "2026-09-13",
        "endDateText": "13 September, 2026",
        "endDate": "2026-09-13",
        "timeText": "2pm – 6pm",
        "venue": "LUX, Waterlow Park Centre, Dartmouth Park Hill, London, N19 5JF, UK",
        "bookingUrl": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/showing-up-tickets-1998482105776?aff=oddtdtcreator",
        "bookingLabel": "BOOK",
        "isUpcoming": false,
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-13T13:21:31.075Z",
        "sourceUrl": "https://lux.org.uk/event/showing-up/"
    },
    {
        "id": "109458",
        "url": "https://lux.org.uk/event/late-night-conversations-stuart-marshall-tamara-krikorian/",
        "slug": "late-night-conversations-stuart-marshall-tamara-krikorian",
        "eventTypes": ["Exhibition"],
        "eventTypeSlugs": ["exhibition"],
        "yearTag": "2026",
        "startDateText": "9 October, 2026",
        "startDate": "2026-10-09",
        "endDateText": "12 December, 2026",
        "endDate": "2026-12-12",
        "timeText": "Thursday – Saturday / 12pm – 4pm",
        "venue": "LUX, Waterlow Park Centre, Dartmouth Park Hill, London, N19 5JF, UK",
        "bookingUrl": null,
        "bookingLabel": null,
        "isUpcoming": true
    },
    {
        "id": "23034",
        "url": "https://lux.org.uk/event/bl-ck-b-x-alia-sye/",
        "slug": "bl-ck-b-x-alia-sye",
        "title": "BL CK B X: Alia Syed Wallpaper",
        "eventTypes": ["Exhibition"],
        "eventTypeSlugs": ["exhibition"],
        "yearTag": "2017",
        "excerpt": "To launch our new series of monthly exhibitions of artists' moving image, BL CK B X, we are delighted to present Alia Syed's Wallpaper ...",
        "imageUrl": "https://lux.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/HUMGcropsmall-copy-e1513704723672.jpg",
        "publishedAt": "2017-11-30T15:12:07Z",
        "modifiedAt": "2022-12-09T12:04:48Z",
        "startDateText": "10 January, 2018",
        "startDate": "2018-01-10",
        "endDateText": "10 February, 2018",
        "endDate": "2018-02-10",
        "timeText": "Wed-Sat, 12pm – 4pm",
        "venue": "LUX, Waterlow Park Centre",
        "bookingUrl": null,
        "bookingLabel": null,
        "isUpcoming": false,
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-13T13:21:37.518Z",
        "sourceUrl": "https://lux.org.uk/event/bl-ck-b-x-alia-sye/"
    }
]

The dataset view Overview shows the title, dates, time, venue, types, the upcoming flag and the booking and event links. The key-value store record OUTPUT summarises the run: for each input the REST query used, how many events matched, how many were fetched and returned, and any warnings (a dead URL, an unknown type or year, a search with no hits).

How much does it cost to scrape LUX?

LUX Events Scraper is charged per result. You pay only for the events returned, and maxItems caps how many that can be. With upcomingOnly, only the events kept are charged, not the ones examined and dropped. See the Pricing tab for the current price.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Connect LUX Events Scraper to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client through the Apify MCP server:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=axiomworks/lux-events-scraper"
        }
    }
}

Example prompts:

1. "What is on at LUX in London in the coming weeks? Give me the dates, venues and booking links."
2. "List the LUX exhibitions from 2024 with their opening hours."
3. "Find LUX online workshops about distribution or festivals and summarise what each one covers."

Every input field has a description written for agents, every field is optional, and a bad or blocked target returns 0 events with a warning instead of an error, so an agent can retry with different filters.

Integrations and API

Run LUX Events Scraper from your own code with the Apify API. Set APIFY_TOKEN to your Apify API token (send it in the Authorization header, never in the URL).

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("axiomworks/lux-events-scraper").call(run_input={"upcomingOnly": True, "maxItems": 20})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["startDate"], item["title"], item["venue"], item["bookingUrl"])

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('axiomworks/lux-events-scraper').call({ eventType: 'exhibition', year: '2024', maxItems: 50 });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/axiomworks~lux-events-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"startUrls": [{"url": "https://lux.org.uk/whats-on/"}], "maxItems": 50}'

The Integrations tab connects the Actor to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack and webhooks, for example to post each new upcoming event to a channel or append it to a sheet after a scheduled run.

FAQ

How many events are there, and how long does a full run take? About 750 events from 2011 to today. The Actor makes one API request per 100 events plus one page request per event, at most two requests per second, so the whole programme takes about ten minutes. A run with the default maxItems of 50 finishes in under a minute.

Why does upcomingOnly return only a handful of events? LUX publishes events shortly before they happen, so at any time only a few of the newest events are still to come. The Actor examines the newest upcomingScanLimit events (default 100) and keeps those with an end date on or after the run date. Raise the limit if you believe events are missing.

Why is bookingUrl null for many events? The page has no booking button for exhibitions (free, drop-in) and for most past events, whose buttons were removed. The field is filled for roughly half of all events and for nearly every upcoming ticketed event.

Why do some old events have no timeText or yearTag? Events from 2011 to 2016 were imported without a time line, and the site's year archive starts in 2017. For those years use search or the full listing.

Why did my run return 0 events? Either the URL does not exist on lux.org.uk (HTTP 404), the event type, year or search term matches nothing, or the site blocked the requests. The run's status message and the OUTPUT record name the cause. For a block, retry later or switch the proxy to a residential group.

How fresh is the data? Every run reads the live site. publishedAt and modifiedAt tell you when LUX created and last edited each event, and scrapedAt when the row was collected.

Can I get the venue as separate address fields? Not yet: the page shows the venue as free text lines, which the Actor joins with commas. Open an issue if you need it split.

Is it legal to scrape LUX?

The Actor collects only information that lux.org.uk publishes for everyone: event titles, dates, venues, descriptions and booking links. It does not log in, does not solve or bypass any challenge, and keeps its request rate low. Event listings are factual, public information; the descriptions may contain artists' names, so you are responsible for how you use and store the data under the laws that apply to you, such as the GDPR. This is not legal advice.

LUX Events Scraper is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by LUX.

Feedback

Found a bug or need a field that isn't here? Open an issue on the Issues tab and we'll look at it.