Event Calendar Scraper

Events from any website's calendar as rows: name, ISO start and end with time zone, venue, address, price, sold-out and cancelled flags, ticket link, image, organizer. For event aggregators, local guides, marketing teams, researchers, and AI agents that need every event from venue, museum, theatre, university, city, and library sites that have no API.

• Price: $3.00 per 1,000 events. No subscription; you pay only for events saved. Failed inputs are free. Try it on Apify's free plan (up to 20 events per run).
• Per events page: 10 to 50 events in our tests of 20 sites (median 29).
• Export: JSON, CSV, Excel, Google Sheets, or the API. Works with Make, Zapier, n8n, and AI agents (MCP).

Every run tells you plainly what worked and what did not: no silent empty runs.

What you can do with it

• Event aggregator or local guide: paste the calendars of every venue, museum, and theatre in a city and get one table with the same columns for all of them.
• Monitor a venue's programme: schedule it on an events page and match rows by eventId between runs to catch new dates, cancellations (isCancelled), and sell-outs (isSoldOut).
• Feed a calendar or CRM: startDateTime and endDateTime are ISO 8601 with the venue's UTC offset, ready for Google Calendar, Outlook, HubSpot, or a database.
• Free and cheap things to do: filter on isFree, priceMin, and category across tourism boards, libraries, and universities.

What you get

Field	What it is	Example
sourceUrl	The calendar URL from your input that produced this row.	https://whitney.org/events
type	event, or error.	event
eventId	Stable 16-character hash of site, name, start and venue. The same event gets the same ID in every run, so you can match rows between runs.	7109cef932052231
name	Event name as the page shows it.	Exhibition Tour:The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans
description	Description text from the list, or from the event page when Include event details is on. Plain text, HTML removed.	Gallery tours through the Whitney’s current exhibitions are offered e…
startDateTime	ISO 8601 start in the venue's local time with its UTC offset (2026-11-07T11:00:00-08:00). A date alone (2026-11-07) when the page shows no time; a local time with no offset when the time zone could not be settled.	2026-11-04T14:00:00-05:00
endDateTime	ISO 8601 end, same format as startDateTime. Empty when the page shows no end.	2026-11-04T14:00:00-05:00
timezone	IANA zone the times are in, worked out from the venue's address, city or country, or from the site's contact address (America/Los_Angeles). A UTC offset (UTC+01:00) when the page gave an offset but no place.	America/New_York
allDay	True when the event has a date but no start time (exhibitions, festivals, all-day programs).	false
isRecurring	True when the source marks the event as repeating (a series or a recurrence rule).	false
venueName	Venue, room, stage or building name.	Whitney Museum of American Art
address	Postal address of the venue in one line.	99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014, US
city	City of the venue.	New York
region	State, province or region of the venue.	NY
country	ISO 3166 two-letter country code of the venue when known.	US
latitude	Venue latitude when the source gives coordinates.	37.423942
longitude	Venue longitude when the source gives coordinates.	-122.171919
isOnline	True for online, virtual or livestream events.	false
isCancelled	True when the page marks the event cancelled or postponed.	false
isSoldOut	True when the page marks the event sold out (in any of 9 languages).	false
isFree	True when admission is free; false when a price is shown; empty when the page shows neither.	true
priceMin	Lowest ticket price shown, as a number. 0 for free events.	0
priceMax	Highest ticket price shown. Same as priceMin when one price is shown.	0
currency	ISO currency code of the prices, from the symbol on the page and the venue's country.	GBP
ticketUrl	Absolute URL of the buy-tickets or register link.	https://whitney.org/events/minnie-evans-tour
url	Absolute URL of the event's own page.	https://whitney.org/events/minnie-evans-tour
imageUrl	Absolute URL of the event image.	https://whitneymedia.org/assets/image/833888/large_WMAA186094_EXME056…
organizer	Organizer, presenter, department or host.	Whitney Museum of American Art
category	Category, genre or event type as the page labels it.	Tours, Free Friday Nights
tags	Further categories or tags the source lists.
ageRestriction	Age rule as shown, for example 21+ or All ages.
scrapedAt	When the row was read (UTC, ISO 8601).	2026-11-03T06:54:56+00:00

Examples come from a real run. Every row has every field; a value the page did not show is null, never guessed.

One events page gave 10 to 50 events in our tests of 20 sites (median 29).

How to use it

1. Click Try for free (or Start) on this page.
2. Enter one events page per line in the first field. The form is prefilled with a working example.
3. Optional: set Max results and the other options.
4. Click Start. Open the Output tab, or export JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

Example input

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://events.stanford.edu/"
  ],
  "maxEventsPerUrl": 50,
  "includeEventDetails": false
}

Example output

One real row from a run on 3 November 2026 (long values shortened here):

{
  "sourceUrl": "https://whitney.org/events",
  "type": "event",
  "eventId": "7109cef932052231",
  "name": "Exhibition Tour:The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans",
  "description": "Gallery tours through the Whitney’s current exhibitions are offered each day. Join a museum docent for insight into the works on view. See the events calenda…",
  "startDateTime": "2026-11-04T14:00:00-05:00",
  "endDateTime": "2026-11-04T14:00:00-05:00",
  "timezone": "America/New_York",
  "allDay": false,
  "isRecurring": false,
  "venueName": "Whitney Museum of American Art",
  "address": "99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014, US",
  "city": "New York",
  "region": "NY",
  "country": "US",
  "latitude": null,
  "longitude": null,
  "isOnline": false,
  "isCancelled": false,
  "isSoldOut": false,
  "isFree": true,
  "priceMin": 0.0,
  "priceMax": 0.0,
  "currency": null,
  "ticketUrl": "https://whitney.org/events/minnie-evans-tour",
  "url": "https://whitney.org/events/minnie-evans-tour",
  "imageUrl": "https://whitneymedia.org/assets/image/833888/large_WMAA186094_EXME056_Evans_web.jpg",
  "organizer": "Whitney Museum of American Art",
  "category": "Tours, Free Friday Nights",
  "tags": null,
  "ageRestriction": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-03T06:54:56+00:00"
}

Pricing

Pay per result: $3.00 per 1,000 rows, plus $0.001 per run start. No subscription.

Event	When	Price
Actor start	Once per run (per GB of memory; the default 256 MB counts as one)	$0.001
Result row	Each row saved to the dataset	$0.003

Example	Rows	Cost
10 events	10	$0.001 + $0.03 = $0.031
100 events	100	$0.001 + $0.30 = $0.301
1,000 events	1,000	$0.001 + $3.00 = $3.001

• Retries after a bot check or a temporary error cost you nothing. You pay only for rows saved.
• An input that fails after all retries saves one error row so you can see what failed and why. Error rows are free.
• On Apify's free plan a run stops at 20 rows. Any paid Apify plan removes this limit.
• Set Max total charge per run in the run options. The Actor stops cleanly at that limit and keeps every row saved so far.

What you can count on

• Same columns on every row. Missing values are null, so spreadsheets and databases never break.
• No silent failures. An input that fails gets an error row with errorCode and a plain-language errorMessage. The other inputs keep running.
• A clear run summary. The run status says how many results were saved, how many inputs failed, and why. The same numbers are saved as the RUN_SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store, for automations.
• Automatic retries. Bot checks and temporary errors are retried with a fresh request before an input counts as failed.
• Limits respected. Max results and your spending limit stop the run cleanly.

Use it from code, automations, and AI agents

API (returns the rows when the run finishes):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/plumblinedata~event-calendar-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"startUrls": ["https://events.stanford.edu/"], "maxEventsPerUrl": 50, "includeEventDetails": false}'

Python (pip install apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("plumblinedata/event-calendar-scraper").call(run_input={"startUrls": ["https://events.stanford.edu/"], "maxEventsPerUrl": 50, "includeEventDetails": false})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row)

JavaScript (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('plumblinedata/event-calendar-scraper').call({"startUrls": ["https://events.stanford.edu/"], "maxEventsPerUrl": 50, "includeEventDetails": false});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

No-code: connect the Actor in Make, Zapier, n8n, or Google Sheets through Apify's integrations, or add a webhook to get notified when a run finishes.

AI agents (MCP): add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=plumblinedata/event-calendar-scraper to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client. The agent can call this Actor as a tool with the same input as above.

Limitations

• List pages rarely show price, organizer, or description. Turn on Include event details to open each event's own page for them; most event pages are read for free from their structured data.
• Pages drawn entirely by JavaScript, with no structured data, can return no events. Such URLs fail free with a plain error row.
• When a site shows dates without times, rows are all-day (allDay true) with a date-only startDateTime.
• The time zone comes from the venue's address, city, or country, or the site's own address. When none is known, times are local with timezone empty.

FAQ

Which sites does it work on? Any public events page: music venues, museums, theatres, universities, city and tourism calendars, libraries, in any language. We tested 20 different sites; 18 returned events.

How do I track changes over time? Schedule the Actor and compare rows by eventId. It is a stable hash of the site, name, start, and venue, so the same event has the same ID in every run.

Are placeholder rows like 'Closed' included? No. Placeholder and private-event rows are left out, and an event listed twice is kept once.

Do failed pages cost anything? No. A URL that gives no events returns one free error row saying why.

How do I scrape events from a website? Paste the site's events or calendar page into Event calendar URLs (startUrls). Each event becomes a row with name, start and end time, venue, price, and ticket link.

How to export a venue's event calendar to CSV or Google Calendar Run the venue's page in Event calendar URLs (startUrls) and download the dataset as CSV. startDateTime and endDateTime are ISO 8601 with the time zone, ready to import.

How to collect upcoming events in a city from many websites Paste every venue, museum, and tourism calendar into Event calendar URLs (startUrls) and set From date (dateFrom) and To date (dateTo). All sites come back in the same columns.

What does an error row mean? It marks an input that failed after retries. errorCode is short (blocked, empty_result, not_available, http_404, or invalid_... for a bad ID or URL) and errorMessage says what to do. Remove error rows with a filter on type.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Create a task with your input in Apify Console, then add a schedule (for example every day at 8:00).

Is it legal to collect this data? The Actor reads public pages that anyone can open without logging in. You are responsible for how you use the data, including copyright, personal data rules such as GDPR, and the site's terms. If you are not sure, ask a lawyer.

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Support

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