# UK Events Scraper (Skiddle): gigs, club nights, festivals (`lafabbricallc/uk-skiddle-events`) Actor Get upcoming events in any UK city from Skiddle's public what's-on pages: title, date and doors time, venue with postcode and coordinates, line-up, category, ticket tiers and prices, organiser and image. JSON, CSV or API. No login, no personal data. - **URL**: https://apify.com/lafabbricallc/uk-skiddle-events.md - **Developed by:** [La Fabbrica LLC](https://apify.com/lafabbricallc) (community) - **Categories:** Travel, Lead generation, Marketing - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $2.00 / 1,000 events 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? An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes. 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. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md. ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run. 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 ### What does UK Events Scraper (Skiddle) do? UK Events Scraper (Skiddle) collects **upcoming events in any UK town or city** from Skiddle's public what's-on pages: gigs, club nights, festivals, comedy, theatre, food and drink, family days out, sport and seasonal events. You give it a list of cities and, optionally, a date window; it returns one row per event with the start and end time, doors time, venue with postcode and coordinates, line-up, category, ticket tiers with prices, ticket status, organiser, flyer image and a short description. Download the result as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it through the API. No login, no API key, no proxies needed. The actor reads the same server-rendered pages a visitor sees, honours Skiddle's `robots.txt`, fetches at most two pages at a time with a pause between requests, and never touches event pages that Skiddle protects with a bot challenge. The actor **does not** collect personal data. Venue phone numbers, promoter ids and attendee counts that exist in the page data are dropped and cannot be switched on. Performer names are the stage names of acts as billed; an organiser value that looks like a private individual rather than a company or brand is left empty. ### Why use it? - **Event-discovery apps and listings sites**: a clean feed of what is on in a city, with coordinates for maps and category codes for filtering, refreshed on a schedule. - **Local marketing**: find every club night, comedy show or festival in your area for the next month and target sponsorship, flyering or partnerships. - **Tour routing and booking research**: see which venues host which genres, at what price points, on which nights, across several cities in one run. - **Venue and promoter benchmarking**: compare ticket tiers, price ranges and line-ups across a city or across cities. - **Data for AI agents and dashboards**: structured rows with stable event ids, so you can diff runs and alert on new or cancelled events. On Apify you also get scheduling, webhooks, run monitoring and integrations (Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, LangChain, MCP). ### What data does it return? One row per event: | Field | Type | Description | |---|---|---| | `eventId` | string | Skiddle event id, stable across runs | | `eventTitle` | string | Event title | | `url` | string | Public event page | | `startDate`, `endDate` | string or null | ISO 8601 with UK offset, e.g. `2026-10-03T22:00:00+01:00` | | `doorsTime`, `doorsCloseTime` | string or null | `HH:MM` when listed | | `venue` | string or null | Venue title | | `venueUrl` | string or null | Skiddle venue page | | `venueType` | string or null | Nightclub, Theatre, Bar, ... | | `address.street`, `address.town`, `address.postcode`, `address.country` | string or null | Venue postal address | | `latitude`, `longitude` | number or null | Venue coordinates (WGS84) | | `city` | string | City the event was listed under | | `category`, `categoryCode` | string or null | e.g. `Club events` / `CLUB`, `Live music / gigs` / `LIVE`, `Festivals` / `FEST`, `Comedy` / `COMEDY` | | `artists` | array of strings | Line-up as billed (acts, DJs, bands, shows) | | `artistUrls` | array of strings | Skiddle artist pages for the line-up | | `priceFrom`, `priceTo`, `currency` | number / string or null | Lowest and highest listed ticket price, normally `GBP` | | `ticketTiers` | array | `{ tier, price, currency, availability, validUntil }` per ticket type (from the page's schema.org offers; empty on month pages) | | `ticketUrl` | string or null | Where tickets are sold | | `ticketStatus` | string or null | Button text as shown: `Buy Tickets`, `Sold Out`, `Free entry`, ... | | `minAge` | number or null | Minimum age when stated | | `eventStatus`, `cancelled` | string / boolean or null | `EventScheduled`, `EventCancelled`, ... | | `imageUrl` | string or null | Event flyer | | `organiser` | string or null | Organising company or promoter brand | | `description` | string or null | Short description as shown in the listing (up to 500 characters) | | `meta.source` | string | Listing page the event was read from | | `meta.sourceKind` | string | `json-ld`, `next-data` or `json-ld+next-data` | | `meta.retrievedAt` | string | UTC timestamp of extraction | ### How to use it 1. Enter one or more **Cities**, spelled as Skiddle spells them in its URLs (`https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on//`): `London`, `Manchester`, `Leeds`, `Glasgow`, `Newcastle upon Tyne`, `Stoke-on-Trent`, `Brighton`. Spaces become hyphens automatically; unknown cities are reported in the log and skipped. 2. Optionally set **Date from** / **Date to** (`YYYY-MM-DD`). Only events starting inside the window are saved, and month pages outside it are not fetched. 3. Set **Max events** (default 100, maximum 2,000). The quota is shared evenly across the cities you listed, and you pay only for events actually saved. 4. Start the run. Rows appear in the **Output** tab as pages are parsed. #### Which pages are read For each city, in this order, until the quota is full: the city landing page (about 75 events across all categories), the trending search page, the today / tomorrow / this-weekend pages (24 each) and one page per month for the next twelve months (up to 200 each). Events are de-duplicated by `eventId`. **Max listing pages per city** (default 20) caps the number of pages per city. With the default the pages add up to about 2,500 rows before de-duplication for a large city; expect several hundred to over a thousand unique upcoming events, fewer for a small town (estimate; see the test log in the source repository). ### Example input Every club night and gig in Manchester and Leeds in November 2026: ```json { "cities": ["Manchester", "Leeds"], "dateFrom": "2026-11-01", "dateTo": "2026-11-30", "maxItems": 500 } ``` ### Example output ```json { "eventId": "42482664", "eventTitle": "Clockwork Orange - Here at Outernet - London", "url": "https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/London/HERE-At-Outernet/Clockwork-Orange---Here-at-Outernet---London/42482664/", "startDate": "2026-09-19T13:00:00+00:00", "endDate": "2026-09-19T21:00:00+00:00", "doorsTime": "13:00", "doorsCloseTime": "21:00", "venue": "HERE At Outernet", "venueUrl": "https://www.skiddle.com/venues/141153", "venueType": "Nightclub", "address": { "street": "Charing Cross Road London, WC2H", "town": "London", "postcode": "WC2H 8LH", "country": "GB" }, "latitude": 51.5157394, "longitude": -0.129184, "city": "London", "category": "Club events", "categoryCode": "CLUB", "artists": ["Bongo Ben", "Rob Tissera", "David Penn", "Jon Pleased Wimmin", "Harry Romero", "Andy Manston", "Danny Clockwork", "DJ Tony Nicholls"], "artistUrls": ["https://www.skiddle.com/artists/Bongo-Ben-123573745", "https://www.skiddle.com/artists/Rob-Tissera-123457208"], "priceFrom": 37.5, "priceTo": 37.5, "currency": "GBP", "ticketTiers": [ { "tier": "General Admission", "price": 37.5, "currency": "GBP", "availability": "InStock", "validUntil": "2026-09-19T20:00:00+01:00" } ], "ticketUrl": "https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/London/HERE-At-Outernet/Clockwork-Orange---Here-at-Outernet---London/42482664/", "ticketStatus": "Buy Tickets", "minAge": 18, "eventStatus": "EventScheduled", "cancelled": false, "imageUrl": "https://d31fr2pwly4c4s.cloudfront.net/7/f/8/2278998_80889490_Clockwork-Orange---Here-at-Outernet---London_400.jpg", "organiser": "Clockwork Orange Mag Ltd", "description": "Saturday 19th September - Here at Outernet - tickets on sale NOW", "meta": { "source": "https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/London/", "sourceKind": "json-ld+next-data", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-18T10:32:51.108Z" } } ``` ### Limits and known gaps - **Listing data only.** Skiddle serves individual event pages behind a bot challenge, so the actor reads the public listing pages instead and does not open event pages. That means `description` is the short listing text (not the full event blurb), and events found only on month pages carry `priceFrom` / `priceTo` but an empty `ticketTiers` array. - **Coverage per city.** Skiddle's "load more" button and its filtered URLs are closed to crawlers by `robots.txt`, which the actor respects. The pages it can read cover several hundred to over a thousand unique upcoming events for a big city and, in practice, everything listed for a small town. If you need every event in a city over a long horizon, run it monthly with a date window. - **Genres** are not published on listing pages; use `category` / `categoryCode` and the `artists` line-up instead. - **City spelling.** Use the spelling from a Skiddle URL. A misspelled city produces a clear error in the log and no charge for that city. - **Politeness limits.** Concurrency is capped at 3 and the default delay is 500 ms. A default run of one city fetches at most 17 pages, so it finishes in well under a minute. - **Time zone.** Dates are as published by Skiddle (UK local time with offset); the date window compares the local date part. ### Pricing This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay a small fee when a run starts and a small fee for each event saved to the dataset; nothing else. Events that are filtered out by the date window or de-duplicated are not charged. | Event | Price | |---|---| | Actor start | $0.01 per run | | Event saved | $0.002 per event | A typical run of 100 events costs about **$0.21**; 1,000 events cost about **$2.01**. Apify platform usage (compute, storage) is billed separately by Apify according to your plan. Set **Maximum cost per run** in the run options to cap what a run can charge; the actor stops cleanly when the cap is reached and keeps what it has already saved. ### Data source and attribution All data comes from the public pages of [Skiddle](https://www.skiddle.com), the UK events guide and ticket outlet. The event listings belong to Skiddle Ltd and to the individual event organisers and venues who publish them; this actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Skiddle. Use the data in line with Skiddle's terms and the law that applies to you, keep the `url` field so people can buy tickets from the official listing, and do not republish the descriptions or images as your own content. ### Support Something missing, a city that does not work, or a page layout that changed? Open an issue on the actor's **Issues** tab with the input you used and the run id, and it will be looked at promptly. # Actor input Schema ## `cities` (type: `array`): UK towns or cities, spelled as Skiddle spells them in its URLs (https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on//). Spaces are turned into hyphens for you, so "Newcastle upon Tyne" works. Unknown cities are reported in the log and skipped. ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Stop after this many events have been saved (across all cities). You are only charged for events actually saved. ## `dateFrom` (type: `string`): Keep only events starting on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD, UK local date). Month pages outside the window are not fetched, which makes the run cheaper and faster. ## `dateTo` (type: `string`): Keep only events starting on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD). ## `maxListingPagesPerCity` (type: `integer`): Cap on how many of a city's listing pages are fetched (landing page + up to 16 more: trending, today, tomorrow, this weekend and one page per month). Each page yields 24 to 200 events before de-duplication. Lower it for quick samples. ## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`): Pages fetched in parallel. Kept low on purpose so the actor stays polite to skiddle.com. ## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`): Pause before every page request, in milliseconds. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Proxy settings. Skiddle's listing pages do not block datacenter traffic in our tests, so Apify Proxy is off by default; turn it on if you see HTTP 403 or 429 errors. ## Actor input object example ```json { "cities": [ "London" ], "maxItems": 100, "maxListingPagesPerCity": 20, "maxConcurrency": 2, "requestDelayMs": 500, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false } } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `items` (type: `string`): No description ## `itemsCsv` (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 = { "cities": [ "London" ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("lafabbricallc/uk-skiddle-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 = { "cities": ["London"], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("lafabbricallc/uk-skiddle-events").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 '{ "cities": [ "London" ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false } }' | apify call lafabbricallc/uk-skiddle-events --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,lafabbricallc/uk-skiddle-events" } } } ``` 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 ` 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/N07kRbG8BCRyvErrS/builds/DWOr2rFb4H9cGsZ9M/openapi.json