StubHub Metro Listings

Discover StubHub Explore event listings for a metro and date window. Returns venue, inferred category, schedule text, and from-price signals as structured JSON for calendars, market monitoring, and automation.

How it works

1. Resolves your city to lat/lng (or uses explicit lat/lng / an Explore startUrl).
2. Calls StubHub’s Explore API (GetExploreEvents) with base64-encoded coordinates and a from/to millisecond window.
3. Paginates with the Page query parameter up to maxPages / maxItems.
4. Normalizes each listing (venue, category, parsed startAt, ticketing signals) and writes it to the dataset.

Input

Field	Required	Description
city	One of city / lat+lng / startUrl	Metro name, e.g. New York, Chicago, London
lat / lng	Same	Coordinate override
startUrl	Same	StubHub Explore URL with base64 lat/lon (and optional from/to)
startDate / endDate	No	YYYY-MM-DD (default: today → +14 days UTC)
maxItems	No	Stop after N unique events
maxPages	No	Explore page cap (default 10)
pageSize	No	Requested page size (StubHub often returns ≤20; default 20)
proxyConfiguration	No	Residential Apify Proxy required

Output

Each dataset item includes:

• Identity: event_id / id, name / title, url
• Schedule: startAt, dateText, timeText, dayOfWeek, confirmation flags
• Place: location.venue, address / fullAddress, city, region, country (latitude/longitude are usually null)
• Meta: category, categoryId, image_url, ticketing (from-price / price class / listings flags)

Example output

{
  "source": "stubhub",
  "event_id": "160338688",
  "id": "160338688",
  "name": "Chicago The Musical",
  "title": "Chicago The Musical",
  "url": "https://www.stubhub.com/chicago-the-musical-new-york-tickets-9-13-2026/event/160338688/",
  "startAt": "2026-09-13T18:00:00.000Z",
  "dayOfWeek": "Sun",
  "dateText": "Sep 13",
  "timeText": "2:00 PM",
  "isTbd": false,
  "isDateConfirmed": true,
  "isTimeConfirmed": true,
  "image_url": "https://media.stubhubstatic.com/stubhub-v2-catalog/d_defaultLogo.jpg/q_auto:low,f_auto,c_fill,g_auto,w_280,h_170,dpr_2.0/categories/14222/6421128",
  "coverImageUrl": "https://media.stubhubstatic.com/stubhub-v2-catalog/d_defaultLogo.jpg/q_auto:low,f_auto,c_fill,g_auto,w_280,h_170,dpr_2.0/categories/14222/6421128",
  "categoryId": 14222,
  "category": "Theater",
  "location": {
    "venue": "Ambassador Theatre",
    "venueId": 3597,
    "address": "New York, NY, USA",
    "fullAddress": "New York, NY, USA",
    "city": "New York",
    "region": "NY",
    "country": "USA",
    "latitude": null,
    "longitude": null
  },
  "ticketing": {
    "formattedFromPrice": null,
    "priceClass": 1,
    "hasActiveListings": false,
    "allowPublicPurchase": true
  },
  "city": "New York",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.stubhub.com/explore?lat=NDAuNzEyOA%3D%3D&lon=LTc0LjAwNg%3D%3D&from=1789257600000&to=1789948799999",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-13T16:44:45.158Z"
}

Use cases

• Metro sports, concert, and theater inventory snapshots
• From-price / listing monitoring on Explore results
• Feeding event calendars where StubHub is the marketplace source
• Comparing ticketed inventory across cities on a schedule

Notes

• Residential proxy is required — StubHub commonly returns 403/captcha without it.
• Explore listings almost never include coordinates. latitude / longitude are null; geocode location.venue + city in your own pipeline if you need map pins.
• startAt is parsed from StubHub display date/time strings. Parsing assumes a US Eastern offset for wall-clock conversion — international metros may need timezone adjustment downstream.
• category labels are best-effort (known categoryId map + title/URL heuristics). Raw categoryId is always included.
• Only public Explore listings are returned.

Tips

• Cheap smoke test: city: "New York", maxItems: 5, maxPages: 1
• Prefer a tight startDate/endDate window for weekly ingestion jobs