Our API can return two different results:
Artist information: returns the link to the Bandsintown artist page, the link to the artist photo, the current number of followers and more
Artist events: returns the list of events including their date and time, venue name and location, ticket links, lineup, description, title, and the link to the Bandsintown event page
PLEASE NOTE: You can specify if you only want to return upcoming events, past events, all events, or events within a given date range.
For more details, look at technical documentation.
How to get artist information
By Artist Name
https://rest.bandsintown.com/artists/{{artist_name}}/?app_id=yOUrSuP3r3ven7aPp-idBy Artist ID
https://rest.bandsintown.com/artists/id_{{artist_id}}/?app_id=yOUrSuP3r3ven7aPp-idBy Facebook page ID
https://rest.bandsintown.com/artists/fbid_{{Facebook page id}}/?app_id=yOUrSuP3r3ven7aPp-id
Result
How to get event information
https://rest.bandsintown.com/artists/{{artist_name}}/events/?app_id=yOUrSuP3r3ven7aPp-idResult
How to add calls to action
When you add these calls to action (CTA) links on your website, this will allow you to sync your live streams or concerts from your Bandsintown account straight to your website. With these CTA links, fans will always know where and when you're performing next without leaving your site, increasing event promotion, engagement and ticket sales.
Examples of CTA: Track; RSVP, Notify Me
Bandsintown URLs returned by the API
Get Event: https://rest.bandsintown.com/artists/{{artist_name}}events?app_id=yOUrSuP3r3ven7aPp-idEvent URL
"url": "https://www.bandsintown.com/e/123456?app_id=yOUrSuP3r3ven7aPp-id&came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event"
Artist URL
"url": "https://www.bandsintown.com/a/123?came_from=267&app_id=yOUrSuP3r3ven7aPp-id"
Ticket URL
"url": "https://www.bandsintown.com/t/1234?app_id=yOUrSuP3r3ven7aPp-id&came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=ticket"
Live shows
"url": "https://www.bandsintown.com/l/102638?app_id=yOUrSuP3r3ven7aPp-id&came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=watch_live"
If there are no tickets or live shows in an event, the "offers" array will be empty.
RSVP
Display an "RSVP button” for every show to allow fans to receive updates and reminders about the show. The link consists of the concatenation of the "url" attribute returned by the Bandsintown API for that event and the parameter &trigger=rsvp_going
https://www.bandsintown.com/e/123456?app_id=yOUrSuP3r3ven7aPp-id&came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event&trigger=rsvp_going
Notify Me
When there is no ticket link (i.e. no "offer" in the Bandsintown API response), you could display a "Notify Me" button instead that calls the same URL as for RSVP except with the parameter &trigger=notify_me.
What that link does is allow the fan to be notified when ticket links are added to the event, so the benefit for the artist is to help increase ticket sales by creating fan anticipation as part of a pre-sale strategy.
https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1019985520?app_id=yOUrSuP3r3ven7aPp-id&came_from=267&utm_medium=api&utm_source=public_api&utm_campaign=event&trigger=notify_me
Track
Display a link to the artist page with the &trigger=track
https://www.bandsintown.com/a/163927?came_from=267&app_id=yOUrSuP3r3ven7aPp-id&trigger=track
Live Streaming Events
Please follow the recommendations in the API for Livestreams article.