# Songkick Scraper - Concerts, Tour Dates & Tickets (`bovi/songkick-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Songkick concert and festival calendars: dates, venues with full address and coordinates, artists, genres, ticket availability, vendors and doors time. Search by artist, venue or city, or paste artist, venue, metro-area or event links.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bovi/songkick-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Vitalii Bondarev](https://apify.com/bovi) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel, Lead generation, Other
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.75 / 1,000 songkick scraper - concerts, tour dates & tickets

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Songkick Scraper: Concerts, Tour Dates & Tickets

Songkick Scraper turns [songkick.com](https://www.songkick.com) into structured concert data. For every concert or festival date you get the date and time, event status, the full line-up with genres, the venue with street address, postal code, country and coordinates, plus — from the event's own page — ticket availability, ticket vendors with sale status, the Songkick ticket link and doors-open time. No login, no API key.

### What it collects

- **Search mode** — type a keyword and pick what it should find:
  - *Upcoming events* / *Past events*: concerts and festivals matching the keyword (artist name, venue, festival).
  - *Artists*, *Venues*, *Locations*: the keyword is resolved to the top matching artist, venue or metro area and its calendar is returned.
- **URL mode** — paste any mix of Songkick links: artist pages (read via their `/calendar`), artist gigography, venue pages, metro-area calendars, festival pages and search links are walked page by page; a single concert or festival-date link returns one record.

Every surface returns the same record shape. Search results start thin, so keep **Fetch event details** on to fill in venue, geo, performers and ticket fields.

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `mode` | `search` or `url` |
| `query` | Search keyword, e.g. `the killers`, `fox theatre`, `london` |
| `searchType` | `events`, `past_events`, `artists`, `venues` or `cities` |
| `urls` | Songkick links for URL mode |
| `fetchDetails` | Open each event page for tickets, doors time, venue link (default `true`) |
| `maxResults` | Maximum number of events (default `50`) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Optional Apify proxy settings |

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "the killers",
  "searchType": "events",
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "maxResults": 50
}
```

### Example output

```json
{
  "eventId": "43416404",
  "url": "https://www.songkick.com/concerts/43416404-powerman-5000-at-radio-room",
  "title": "Powerman 5000 @ Radio Room",
  "eventType": "concert",
  "startDate": "2027-05-04T19:00:00",
  "endDate": "2027-05-04",
  "eventStatus": "scheduled",
  "eventAttendanceMode": "offline",
  "headliner": "Powerman 5000",
  "artistUrl": "https://www.songkick.com/artists/169381-powerman-5000",
  "artistGenres": ["metal", "rock", "electronic", "hip_hop"],
  "performers": [{"name": "Powerman 5000", "url": "https://www.songkick.com/artists/169381-powerman-5000", "genres": ["metal", "rock", "electronic", "hip_hop"]}],
  "supportActs": "Aesthetic Perfection and A Killers Confession",
  "venueName": "Radio Room",
  "venueUrl": "https://www.songkick.com/venues/1415883-radio-room",
  "venueStreet": "28 Liberty Lane",
  "venueCity": "Greenville",
  "venueRegion": "SC",
  "venuePostalCode": "29607",
  "venueCountry": "US",
  "venueLatitude": 34.84283,
  "venueLongitude": -82.36503,
  "venueWebsite": "https://www.radioroomgreenville.com/",
  "locationText": "Radio Room, Greenville, SC, US",
  "ticketAvailability": "in_stock",
  "ticketVendors": [{"vendor": "Etix", "saleStatus": "On sale now"}],
  "ticketUrl": "https://www.songkick.com/tickets/34314750",
  "doorsTime": "19:00",
  "description": "Powerman 5000 at Radio Room at 2027-05-04T19:00:00-0400",
  "imageUrl": "https://images.sk-static.com/images/media/profile_images/artists/169381/huge_avatar",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.songkick.com/search?query=the+killers&type=upcoming",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-31T06:36:06+00:00"
}
```

Fields only present on an event's own page (`ticketAvailability`, `ticketVendors`, `doorsTime`) stay empty when **Fetch event details** is off; `ticketUrl` then points to the event page.

### Pricing

Pay per result: you are charged only for event records delivered to the dataset (about **$0.002 per event**, i.e. $2 per 1,000 events), plus the standard Apify platform usage.

### Use cases

- Power a concert calendar or local events newsletter for a city.
- Track an artist's tour dates and new announcements.
- Research venues, touring patterns and ticket vendors across countries.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Search looks up concerts by keyword. URL mode reads the Songkick pages you paste.

## `query` (type: `string`):

Search mode: an artist name, venue name or city, e.g. "the killers" or "london".

## `searchType` (type: `string`):

Search mode: Upcoming / Past events return matching concerts and festivals. Artists, Venues and Locations resolve the keyword to the top match and return its calendar.

## `urls` (type: `array`):

URL mode: Songkick pages, one per line. Artist, artist calendar / gigography, venue, metro-area, festival and search links are walked page by page; a concert or festival-date link is read as one record.

## `fetchDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Open each event's own page to add full venue address and coordinates (for search results), performers, ticket availability, ticket vendors, ticket link and doors time. Slower; turn off for calendar-only data.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of event records to collect.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional proxy settings. Songkick works with the default Apify datacenter proxy; switch to residential only if you see blocks.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "the killers",
  "searchType": "events",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.songkick.com/metro-areas/4120-us-atlanta",
    "https://www.songkick.com/artists/555021-killers"
  ],
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "maxResults": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset with the scraped records.

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "mode": "search",
    "query": "the killers",
    "searchType": "events",
    "urls": [
        "https://www.songkick.com/metro-areas/4120-us-atlanta",
        "https://www.songkick.com/artists/555021-killers"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bovi/songkick-scraper").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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "mode": "search",
    "query": "the killers",
    "searchType": "events",
    "urls": [
        "https://www.songkick.com/metro-areas/4120-us-atlanta",
        "https://www.songkick.com/artists/555021-killers",
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bovi/songkick-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "the killers",
  "searchType": "events",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.songkick.com/metro-areas/4120-us-atlanta",
    "https://www.songkick.com/artists/555021-killers"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call bovi/songkick-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,bovi/songkick-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Grdb8h8XrYgbqNKjh/builds/hazE5YsnOkcozf0H2/openapi.json