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Bandsintown API API

by bandsintown.com

No authHTTPSSocial
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Overview

# What is the Bandsintown API? The Bandsintown API is designed for artists and enterprises representing artists. It offers read-only access to artist info and artist events: - artist info: returns the link to the Bandsintown artist page, the link to the artist photo, the current number of trackers and more - artist events: returns the list of events including their date and time, venue name and location, ticket links, lineup, description and the link to the Bandsintown event page Note you can specify if you only want to return upcoming events, past events, all events, or events within a given date range. # Getting Started - In order to use the Bandsintown API, you must read and accept our Terms and Conditions below and you must have written consent from Bandsintown Inc. Any other use of the Bandsintown API is prohibited. [Contact Bandsintown](http://help.bandsintown.com/) to tell us what you plan to do and request your personal application ID. - Find out about the API methods available and the format of the API responses below. Select the method you wish to use and try it out online with the app ID provided to you. - Call our Bandsintown API with the app ID provided straight from your website or back-end platform and choose which element of the API response you wish to display. Scroll to the bottom of this page to find out about the Models used.

Bandsintown API is a social API from bandsintown.com. It needs no API key. It is served over HTTPS. Its OpenAPI description documents 2 endpoints.

At a glance

Authentication
No auth
HTTPS
Yes
CORS
Unknown
Category
Social
Base URL
https://rest.bandsintown.com
Version
3.0.0
Endpoints
2
Spec updated
2021-06-21

Make a first request

Replace the placeholders; the documentation says exactly where credentials go.

cURL
curl -X GET "https://rest.bandsintown.com/artists/ARTISTNAME" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"
JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://rest.bandsintown.com/artists/ARTISTNAME", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Accept": "application/json",
  },
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
Python
import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "https://rest.bandsintown.com/artists/ARTISTNAME",
    headers={
    "Accept": "application/json",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())

Endpoints

MethodPathWhat it does
GET/artists/{artistname}Get artist information
GET/artists/{artistname}/eventsGet upcoming, past, or all artist events, or events within a date range

Questions

Does the Bandsintown API API need an API key?

No. The Bandsintown API API can be called without an API key or sign-up, which makes it handy for prototypes and front-end demos.

Does the Bandsintown API API support HTTPS?

Yes, the Bandsintown API API is served over HTTPS.

How many endpoints does the Bandsintown API API have?

Its OpenAPI description lists 2 endpoints in version 3.0.0. All of them are shown on this page.

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