# Songkick Event Scraper (`moving_beacon-owner1/songkick-event-scraper`) Actor

Scrapes concert and live music events from Songkick’s public website by artist, venue, or location. Returns flat event records with dates, lineup, venue details, location, tickets, genres, and schema.org event data. No API key or account required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/moving\_beacon-owner1/songkick-event-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Jamshaid Arif](https://apify.com/moving_beacon-owner1) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.99 / 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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Songkick Event Scraper

Scrapes concert listings from [Songkick](https://www.songkick.com) 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

```json
{
    "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `search_type` (type: `string`):

What the query refers to: an artist's tour calendar, a venue's calendar, or a metro area's concert listings.

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

Artist name (e.g. 'Coldplay'), venue name (e.g. 'Madison Square Garden'), or city (e.g. 'Austin', 'London'). The top Songkick search hit is scraped.

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of event records to return. Venue and metro-area pages list about 50 events per page; artist calendars list about 10.

## `max_pages` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on how many listing pages to fetch before stopping, regardless of the record limit.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "search_type": "artist",
  "query": "Coldplay",
  "limit": 25,
  "max_pages": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "search_type": "artist",
    "query": "Coldplay",
    "limit": 25,
    "max_pages": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("moving_beacon-owner1/songkick-event-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 = {
    "search_type": "artist",
    "query": "Coldplay",
    "limit": 25,
    "max_pages": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("moving_beacon-owner1/songkick-event-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 '{
  "search_type": "artist",
  "query": "Coldplay",
  "limit": 25,
  "max_pages": 10
}' |
apify call moving_beacon-owner1/songkick-event-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,moving_beacon-owner1/songkick-event-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/RpBBP7HZhiz9zebau/builds/pJ9ib24QoEAdq8VWC/openapi.json