Real music was meant to be enjoyed live! There is just nothing like the feeling you get when you are letting yourself lose in a crowd of hundreds of people while listening to your favorite song on stage in a real music event for the ages.
That is why it is so exciting to see an ad or enter the page of the artist you follow, and find out that they will be near your city in a few weeks. In the same way, it is comforting to arrive at night after having visited a few bars with your friends, knowing that in one of them you discovered a new band that you did not know but that you know you will see again the next time they play live.
Feelings like these are what lead many people to spend hours and hours of their time exploring different portals and pages of the best-known bands looking for the next concert to attend. It used to be easier, when reading some local magazines one could find out everything that was going to happen on the weekend. Now, you have to go into the profiles of each of the artists you follow to see if they haven’t added a new date to their tour that we can attend.
Due to this, many times we deprive ourselves of going to concerts that we would have liked for not having found out in time. Luckily, different digital tools are also being developed that make it easier for us to find the next music events online.
The best way to do it nowadays is using an API (application programming interface), there are applications made for accessing databases for different types of information. There are a number of APIs in the market made for gathering information all over the web searching for concert and music events announcements. By a quick search in one of those, you can find out about all the concerts that a certain artist will give or all the musical events that will take place in your city.
There are several options and the demand is so great that new APIs capable of performing this task appear from time to time. Here, we present three of the best known to start investigating how they work.
Music Gigs and Concerts Tracker API
The first is a very easy-to-use API that meets the basic needs of anyone who wants to know the next shows of a specific artist or the concerts scheduled within an area of influence. Through a simple search, Music Gigs and Concerts Tracker API can not only inform about the next dates of a band, but also the capacity, ticket sales and all relevant information to get to the concert venue.
In addition, thanks to its ease of integration, many bloggers or music pages use it to update their information on the most popular artists. Music Gigs and Concerts Tracker API has different plans depending on the number of searches to be carried out, being able to start with the most basic plans to explore the use of the API.
Discovery API is the tool offered by Ticketmaster for its users to inquire through the different events available in one of the most important ticket vending machines in the world. The API has access to the contents of several platforms, such as Universe, FrontGate and Ticketmaster and Ticketmaster Resale itself, being able to search through a database with more than 230 thousand shows available in Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom. United Kingdom, Ireland or the United States.
By default, the API returns events from all sources, or you can also filter the search source by specifying the data source. This is very useful for those who have discounts with a particular ticket vendor.
Bandsintown REST API
Bandsintown allows users to view local concerts and gives live music recommendations. It also allows any website or mobile application to display the information Bandsintown offers.
The Bandsintown API is designed for enterprise partners and artists with websites, media players, and/or mobile applications that would like to list an artist’s events and provide their users with the ability to buy tickets and RSVP to these events. In order to use the Bandsintown API, you must have written consent from Bandsintown Inc.