Songkick Event Scraper

Scrapes concert listings from Songkick and pushes one flat record per event. Songkick's public API has been retired, so this actor works entirely from the public site: it runs a Songkick search (/search?query=…&type=artists|venues|locations), takes the top hit, and then pages through that resource's listing, parsing the schema.org MusicEvent JSON-LD block that Songkick embeds for every event. No API key and no account are required.

• artist → /artists/<id>-<slug>/calendar
• venue → /venues/<id>-<slug>/calendar
• location → /metro-areas/<id>-<slug>

Venue and metro-area listings carry ~50 events per page and paginate with ?page=N; artist calendars list ~10 upcoming dates on a single page.

Input

Field	Default	Description
search_type	artist	artist, venue, or location
query	Coldplay	Artist, venue or city name — the top search hit is scraped
limit	25 (max 1000)	Maximum number of event records to return
max_pages	10 (max 50)	Hard cap on listing pages fetched

Output

{
    "source": "songkick",
    "mode": "venue",
    "event_id": "42898487",
    "event_url": "https://www.songkick.com/concerts/42898487-olivia-dean-at-madison-square-garden",
    "name": "OLIVIA DEAN @ Madison Square Garden",
    "description": "OLIVIA DEAN and Baby Rose at Madison Square Garden at 2026-08-17T20:00:00-0400",
    "start_date": "2026-08-17T20:00:00",
    "end_date": "2026-08-17",
    "event_status": "EventScheduled",
    "attendance_mode": "OfflineEventAttendanceMode",
    "is_festival": false,
    "headliner": "OLIVIA DEAN",
    "headliner_url": "https://www.songkick.com/artists/9854184-olivia-dean",
    "lineup": ["OLIVIA DEAN", "Baby Rose"],
    "genres": [],
    "venue_name": "Madison Square Garden",
    "street_address": "7th Ave & 32nd St",
    "city": "New York (NYC)",
    "region": "NY",
    "postal_code": "10001",
    "country": "US",
    "latitude": 40.74971,
    "longitude": -73.99156,
    "ticket_url": "http://www.songkick.com/concerts/42898487-olivia-dean-at-madison-square-garden",
    "organizer": "OLIVIA DEAN",
    "image": "https://images.sk-static.com/images/media/profile_images/artists/9854184/huge_avatar",
    "search_source": "Madison Square Garden",
    "search_source_url": "https://www.songkick.com/venues/477-madison-square-garden",
    "raw": { "...": "full schema.org MusicEvent payload" }
}

Data source & auth

Public songkick.com HTML pages and their embedded schema.org JSON-LD — no key, no login. Requests use a Chrome TLS fingerprint (curl_cffi), a 30s timeout, and sleep ~0.8s between paginated calls.

Respect Songkick's terms of service and keep request rates modest when using this actor.