🎧 The Bash Vendor Scraper — DJs, Bands, Photographers & More

Pull every event vendor on The Bash (thebash.com, formerly GigMasters) for any US city + category — DJs, live bands, photographers, caterers, comedians, magicians, bartenders, photo booths and 100+ more — with rating, review count, starting price, verified bookings and profile URL. Optionally enrich each vendor with their full profile (geo coordinates, member-since date, price range, services, awards, and up to 10 full reviews with scores). Run it on a schedule to catch new vendors the day they list.

No login, no API key, no HTML guessing — The Bash server-renders all vendor data as JSON, so runs are fast and reliable.

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Why this one

The Bash is one of the biggest US event-vendor marketplaces (it's owned by The Knot Worldwide), and no other Apify actor covers it:

• ✅ 25 full vendor records per page, parsed from the site's own JSON — no fragile selectors
• ✅ Starting price + price period (e.g. $900 per event) — rare public pricing signal for the events niche
• ✅ Verified bookings + days since last booking — see who's actually active
• ✅ Detail enrichment: latitude/longitude, member-since, full price range, services offered, awards, full review text with 5 score dimensions
• ✅ A new-vendor monitor with Slack / email / webhook alerts

Honest note: The Bash gates vendor phone + email behind its quote form — they are not public, so this actor does not promise contact fields. It's lead-gen by profile: name, city, price, reviews, activity and a direct profile link. (Venue-type listings occasionally expose a contact; when present it's passed through as venue_email / venue_phone.)

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What you get (per vendor)

name · category · city · state · rating · review_count · starting_price + price_period · bookings · days_since_last_booking · background_verified · membership_level · photo_count / video_count · description · thumbnail_url · first_video_url · travel_distance_miles · profile_url · is_new · scraped_at

With Fetch profile details on, each vendor also gets: latitude / longitude · member_since · date_added · verified_bookings · price_low / price_high · services[] · gigs_desired[] · awards[] · full_description · reviews[] (text + satisfaction/recommend/professionalism/talent scores).

Example output

{
  "member_id": 121803,
  "name": "Joel Guerrero - DJ / MC",
  "category": "DJ",
  "city": "Bay Shore",
  "state": "NY",
  "rating": 5,
  "review_count": 24,
  "starting_price": 900,
  "price_period": "per event",
  "bookings": 52,
  "days_since_last_booking": 27,
  "background_verified": false,
  "membership_level": "Basic",
  "profile_url": "https://www.thebash.com/dj/joelguerrero",
  "record_id": "thebash-121803",
  "source": "The Bash",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-12T18:00:00.000Z"
}

Export to CSV/JSON/Excel or pull via the Apify API into your CRM, Clay, n8n, or Make.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
city	string	New York, NY	City + state ("Austin, TX") or The Bash slug ("austin-tx"). Small towns auto-roll up to their metro.
category	string	dj	Friendly name (dj, band, photographer, caterer, bartender, comedian, magician, photo-booths, …) or any raw slug from thebash.com/services.
maxItems	integer	50	Cap on vendors per run. 0 = every vendor in the city.
fetchDetails	boolean	false	Fetch each profile page for geo, member-since, full reviews, awards, services.
concurrency	integer	5	Parallel profile fetches (detail mode).
monitorMode	boolean	false	Output/alert ONLY vendors not seen in prior runs (per city+category).
alertOnNewListing	boolean	true	In monitor mode, alert for each new vendor.
webhookUrl / slackWebhookUrl / emailRecipients	—	—	Where new-vendor alerts go.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy	Datacenter rotation worked in testing; use residential if you see 403s at scale.

Quick start

{ "city": "New York, NY", "category": "dj", "maxItems": 50 }

Full pull with details

{ "city": "Los Angeles, CA", "category": "photographer", "maxItems": 0, "fetchDetails": true }

Daily new-vendor monitor

{ "city": "Austin, TX", "category": "band", "maxItems": 0, "monitorMode": true, "slackWebhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/…" }

Popular categories: dj · wedding-dj · latin-dj · band (live bands) · jazz-band · mariachi-band · photographer · videographer · caterer · bartender · comedian · magician · photo-booths · singer · guitarist · violinist · face-painting · balloon-twister · caricaturist · santa-claus · clown — plus any raw slug from thebash.com/services.

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Who it's for

• 🎯 Event-tech / SaaS selling to DJs, bands, photographers, caterers — build account lists with real activity + price signals
• 📣 Agencies & lead-gen in the events/wedding space — qualify by rating, bookings, and price tier
• 🎤 Vendors benchmarking competitors' pricing and reviews in their market
• 📊 Market researchers mapping vendor supply, pricing, and category density by city

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Pricing (pay-per-event)

Event	What it covers	Price
lot-scraped	each vendor record returned	$0.004 (= $4 / 1,000)
lot-detail-enriched	each profile page enriched	$0.004
monitor-run-completed	each scheduled watch run	$0.05
new-lot-detected	each newly listed vendor	$0.02
alert-delivered	each Slack/email/webhook alert	$0.005

A default run (50 NYC DJs, no details) costs about $0.20.

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Monitor / alert setup

1. Run once with monitorMode: true — this seeds the baseline (every vendor counts as new on the first run).
2. Add an Apify Schedule (e.g. daily) with the same input.
3. Each later run outputs and alerts only vendors that weren't there before. State is kept per city+category in a named key-value store (thebash-scraper-state), so it survives across runs — no double alerts.
4. Point slackWebhookUrl, webhookUrl, or emailRecipients at your channel/endpoint/inbox.

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FAQ

Does it return phone numbers or emails? No — The Bash gates vendor contact behind its quote form; nothing public exists to scrape. You get the full business profile (name, city, price, rating, reviews, activity) plus the profile URL. Venue-type listings occasionally expose a contact, which is passed through.

Which cities work? Any US/Canada city The Bash serves (thousands). Use "City, ST" — the site rolls small towns up to the nearest metro automatically and the actor follows.

Which categories work? 100+ — every slug on thebash.com/services. The friendly names above cover the big ones; any raw slug works too.

How fresh is the data? Live — every run hits the site directly. days_since_last_booking tells you how active each vendor is.

How fast is it? ~25 vendors per request. 50 vendors ≈ a few seconds; a full city with details ≈ a couple of minutes.

Does monitor mode double-charge? No — it remembers what it's seen (named store) and emits each vendor once.

Can I get review text? Yes — turn on fetchDetails for up to 10 full reviews per vendor with satisfaction/recommend/professionalism/talent scores.

What about anti-bot? The Bash sits behind Akamai, but it's a header-fingerprint filter, not a CAPTCHA. The actor sends a clean browser profile and paces requests; datacenter proxy worked throughout testing.

Is this legal? It scrapes only publicly displayed marketplace data (no login, no contact harvesting). You are responsible for how you use the data — follow The Bash's ToS and applicable laws for your use case.

Can it do multiple cities/categories? One city+category per run keeps monitor scopes clean — fan out with multiple scheduled runs or task copies.