# Events Directory Scraper (`timbered_oak/events-directory-scraper`) Actor

Fetches upcoming public event listings (name, dates, venue, organizer, category, price, url, image) from an Eventbrite city/category discover page.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/timbered\_oak/events-directory-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Mark](https://apify.com/timbered_oak) (community)
- **Categories:** Other, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$3.80 / 1,000 event scrapeds

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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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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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

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# README

## Events Directory Scraper

### What it does

Scrapes upcoming public events from an Eventbrite city/category discover
page (`eventbrite.com/d/<location>/<category>/`), then visits each event's
own page to pull organizer and price, which the discover page doesn't expose.

### Input

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `location` | string | yes | Eventbrite location slug from a discover URL, e.g. `ny--new-york`. |
| `category` | string | yes | Eventbrite category slug from a discover URL, e.g. `all-events` or `music--events`. |
| `maxEvents` | integer | no | Max events to scrape from the first results page (default 20, max 100). |

### Output example

One row per event in the default dataset:

```json
{
  "name": "Friday Night Lights at Mama Taco Everyone FREE B4 12am w/RSVP",
  "startDate": "2026-09-04T20:00:00-04:00",
  "endDate": "2026-09-05T04:00:00-04:00",
  "venueName": "MAMATACO",
  "city": "Brooklyn",
  "country": "US",
  "organizer": "JiggyTime Ent",
  "category": "Music",
  "priceText": "USD 0.00 - 55.20",
  "url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/friday-night-lights-at-mama-taco-everyone-free-b4-12am-wrsvp-tickets-1990839672051",
  "image": "https://img.evbuc.com/..."
}
```

`organizer` is the organization/promoter name only — never an attendee or
individual's personal data.

### Pricing

Pay-per-event (PPE). One `event-scraped` event is charged per dataset row
via `Actor.charge({ eventName: 'event-scraped' })`, priced at **$0.0038 per
event** ($3.80/1k) — 16% under the best-rated comparable Eventbrite/10times
actor on the Store. Configure the price and event name in the Apify Console's
Actor pricing step.

### Limits / known gaps

- Datacenter proxy is enough; no residential proxy needed (rule 1).
- Free-plan compute only (`policy/RULES.md` rule 4).
- Only the first results page of the discover URL is scraped — no pagination.
- Eventbrite serves search results in one of two page shapes depending on
  whether a category is set (`event_data.active_search` vs `search_data`);
  both are handled, but a future layout change could still break the
  `window.__SERVER_DATA__` extraction — it's isolated to two small functions
  in `src/main.ts` for that reason.
- No attendee, RSVP, or individual-person data is collected; `organizer` is
  the listed organization name only.

# Actor input Schema

## `location` (type: `string`):

Eventbrite location slug from a discover-page URL, e.g. https://www.eventbrite.com/d/ny--new-york/ -> "ny--new-york".

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

Eventbrite category slug from a discover-page URL, e.g. "all-events" or "music--events".

## `maxEvents` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of events to scrape from the discover page's first results page.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "location": "ny--new-york",
  "category": "all-events",
  "maxEvents": 20
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All scraped event rows as JSON

# 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 = {
    "location": "ny--new-york",
    "category": "all-events"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("timbered_oak/events-directory-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 = {
    "location": "ny--new-york",
    "category": "all-events",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("timbered_oak/events-directory-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 '{
  "location": "ny--new-york",
  "category": "all-events"
}' |
apify call timbered_oak/events-directory-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,timbered_oak/events-directory-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/8imqtrL9rfUlSOGDW/builds/pownETgukDIpULH2U/openapi.json