# Ticketmaster Scraper API - Events, Venues & On-Sale Dates (`sweet_stickball/ticketmaster-scraper`) Actor

Ticketmaster scraper and API alternative: extract events by artist, team, show or city with local date and time, venue, address, coordinates, artists, category, on-sale date, presales and sale status. US, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia and Mexico sites, no login or API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sweet_stickball/ticketmaster-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [CrawlKit](https://apify.com/sweet_stickball) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel, Lead generation, Automation
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.30 / 1,000 events

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Ticketmaster Scraper API - Events, Venues & On-Sale Dates

Scrape Ticketmaster events by keyword (artist, team, show, genre) and/or city. One flat JSON record per event: name, local date and time, venue with address and coordinates, artists, category, general on-sale date, presale names and sale status. Works on the Ticketmaster sites of the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Italy and Mexico. No login, no Ticketmaster API key.

### What it does

- Searches Ticketmaster the way the website search box does, page by page, until `maxItems` events are collected.
- Filters strictly by venue city, country and category, and by date range.
- Returns the event's local date and time (converted to the venue's time zone) as well as the UTC start.
- Reports the sale status: `onsale`, `offsale` (general sale not started yet), `soldout`, `cancelled`, `postponed`, `rescheduled`.
- Never opens event pages, never selects tickets, never joins a queue: read-only event listings.

### Quick start for agents and API clients

Minimal input (one of `query` or `city` is required):

```json
{ "query": "comedy", "country": "US", "maxItems": 10 }
```

Events in one city for a month, soonest first:

```json
{ "city": "Chicago", "country": "US", "category": "Music", "startDate": "2026-12-01", "endDate": "2026-12-31", "sort": "date", "maxItems": 50 }
```

Run it synchronously and get the items in one call:

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sweet_stickball~ticketmaster-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"query": "Coldplay", "country": "GB", "maxItems": 20}'
```

### Input

| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|-----------|------|----------|---------|-------------|
| `query` | string | one of `query` / `city` | — | Artist, team, show, venue or genre, e.g. `Coldplay`, `Lakers`, `Hamilton`, `comedy` |
| `city` | string | one of `query` / `city` | — | Keep only events whose venue is in this city (exact name, case-insensitive) |
| `country` | string | No | `US` | ISO country code of the venues to keep; also picks the local Ticketmaster site. `ALL` = no country filter |
| `category` | string | No | all | `Music`, `Sports`, `Arts & Theatre` (includes comedy), `Film`, `Miscellaneous` |
| `startDate` | string | No | today | Only events on or after this date (`YYYY-MM-DD`) |
| `endDate` | string | No | none | Only events on or before this date (`YYYY-MM-DD`) |
| `sort` | string | No | `relevance` | `relevance` or `date` (soonest first) |
| `maxItems` | integer | No | 20 | Maximum number of events (1–2,000) |

### Output

One dataset item per event (real example):

```json
{
  "eventId": "3B0065249F4D361A",
  "discoveryId": "G5diZ_33LKKbQ",
  "name": "New York Comedy Festival & LN Present: Dave Chappelle Karmageddon",
  "url": "https://www.ticketmaster.com/new-york-comedy-festival-ln-present-new-york-new-york-11-06-2026/event/3B0065249F4D361A",
  "startDateUtc": "2026-11-07T00:30:00Z",
  "localDate": "2026-11-06",
  "localTime": "19:30",
  "timezone": "America/New_York",
  "onsaleDate": "2026-09-17T16:00:00Z",
  "presales": ["LIVE NATION PRESALE", "New York Comedy Fest Presale", "Venue Presale"],
  "status": "onsale",
  "limitedAvailability": false,
  "category": "Arts & Theatre",
  "artists": ["Dave Chappelle"],
  "headliner": "Dave Chappelle",
  "venueName": "Madison Square Garden",
  "venueAddress": "7th Ave & 32nd Street",
  "city": "New York",
  "state": "NY",
  "postalCode": "10001",
  "country": "US",
  "latitude": 40.7497062,
  "longitude": -73.9916006,
  "venueUrl": "https://www.ticketmaster.com/madison-square-garden-tickets-new-york/venue/483329",
  "imageUrl": "https://s1.ticketm.net/dam/a/e69/931eff58-62a7-4240-adb3-cf67a084ee69_RETINA_PORTRAIT_16_9.jpg",
  "seatmapUrl": "https://mapsapi.tmol.io/maps/geometry/3/event/3B0065249F4D361A/staticImage?type=png&systemId=HOST",
  "virtual": false,
  "market": "www.ticketmaster.com",
  "keyword": "comedy",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-25T11:14:02+00:00"
}
```

`discoveryId` is the id used by the official Ticketmaster Discovery API, so records can be joined with it.

### Pricing

Pay-per-event, **no start fee**: **$2.10 per 1,000 events** on the Apify Free plan, with lower prices on paid plans. Each event pushed to the dataset is one event.

| Event | Free | Starter | Scale | Business | Enterprise |
|-------|------|---------|-------|----------|------------|
| Event (`EVENT`) | $2.10 | $1.80 | $1.60 | $1.30 | $1.30 |

Prices in USD per 1,000 events.

#### Cost examples (Free plan)

| Scenario | Events | Cost |
|----------|--------|------|
| Quick look | 10 | $0.021 |
| One city, one month | 300 | $0.63 |
| Market monitoring | 2,000 | $4.20 |

### Limitations

- **No ticket prices.** Ticketmaster's search results do not include prices, and event pages sit behind a bot check that this Actor does not try to pass. Use `url` to open the event, or the official Discovery API with `discoveryId` for price ranges where Ticketmaster publishes them.
- Ticketmaster returns at most 10,000 results per search; narrow the keyword or the date range for larger sets.
- The city filter keeps exact venue-city matches (`Chicago` does not include `Rosemont`). Without a keyword, the city name is used as the search keyword, so events whose names mention the city can rank first; the filter removes those held elsewhere.
- ticketmaster.fr answers with a bot check; French events are searched through ticketmaster.com (`country: "FR"`).
- Resale-only marketplaces and partner sites (e.g. Ticketmaster travel packages) are listed as they appear in the search, without their own details.

### Related Actors

- [Booking.com Scraper API - Hotel Prices & Ratings, No Login](https://apify.com/sweet_stickball/booking-scraper) — Scrape Booking.com hotels for any city and dates: prices, ratings, reviews, stars, coordinates and free cancellation. Hotel data API, no login needed.
- [Google Flights Scraper API - Fares & Airlines, $0.17/1K](https://apify.com/sweet_stickball/google-flights-scraper) — Scrape Google Flights fares: price, airline, flight numbers, times, duration and stops for any route and date. Airfare tracking API, no login needed.
- [Resy Scraper API - Restaurants & Open Reservation Times](https://apify.com/sweet_stickball/resy-scraper) — Scrape Resy restaurants in any city: open reservation times for your date and party size, cuisine, rating, price level and address. Read-only, no login.

# Actor input Schema

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

Artist, team, show, venue or genre to search, e.g. 'Coldplay', 'Lakers', 'Hamilton', 'comedy'. Optional when 'city' is set.

## `city` (type: `string`):

Keep only events whose venue is in this city (exact city name, e.g. 'Chicago', 'London'). Combined with the keyword when both are set.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Keep only events in this country (ISO code). Also selects the local Ticketmaster site, which ranks local events first. 'ALL' = every country.

## `category` (type: `string`):

Keep only events of this category. Empty = all categories.

## `startDate` (type: `string`):

Only events on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Empty = from today.

## `endDate` (type: `string`):

Only events on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Empty = no end date.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Relevance (Ticketmaster's default ranking) or date (soonest first).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of events to return (Ticketmaster shows at most 10,000 results per search).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "comedy",
  "city": "Chicago",
  "country": "US",
  "category": "",
  "startDate": "2026-12-01",
  "endDate": "2026-12-31",
  "sort": "relevance",
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `events` (type: `string`):

Dataset items shown with the 'events' view.

# 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 = {
    "query": "comedy",
    "country": "US",
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("sweet_stickball/ticketmaster-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 = {
    "query": "comedy",
    "country": "US",
    "maxItems": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("sweet_stickball/ticketmaster-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 '{
  "query": "comedy",
  "country": "US",
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call sweet_stickball/ticketmaster-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,sweet_stickball/ticketmaster-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/sStavZOAUy7FH6fWn/builds/Jm66hKdjBPke2pcWA/openapi.json