Bandsintown artist information API

The artist information API from Bandsintown — 1 operation(s) for artist information.

Operations 1

GET /artists/{artistname} Get artist information #

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OpenAPI Specification

bandsintown-artist-information-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  description: '# 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.

    '
  version: 3.0.0
  title: Bandsintown artist events artist information API
  contact:
    name: Bandsintown
    url: https://bandsintown.com/
  license:
    name: Terms and Conditions
    url: https://corp.bandsintown.com/data-applications-terms
servers:
- url: https://rest.bandsintown.com
tags:
- name: artist information
paths:
  /artists/{artistname}:
    get:
      tags:
      - artist information
      summary: Get artist information
      operationId: artist
      description: 'Get artist information

        '
      parameters:
      - in: path
        name: artistname
        description: 'The name of the artist. If it contains one of the special characters below, please be sure to replace it by the corresponding code: for / use %252F, for ? use %253F, for * use %252A, and for " use %27C'
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - in: query
        name: app_id
        description: The application ID assigned to you by Bandsintown
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        200:
          description: 200 response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ArtistData'
components:
  schemas:
    ArtistData:
      type: object
      required:
      - name
      - url
      - image_url
      - thumb_url
      - facebook_page_url
      - mbid
      - tracker_count
      - upcoming_event_count
      properties:
        id:
          type: integer
          example: 510
        name:
          type: string
          example: Maroon 5
        url:
          type: string
          format: url
          example: http://www.bandsintown.com/Maroon5?came_from=67
        image_url:
          type: string
          format: url
          example: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bit-photos/large/7481529.jpeg
        thumb_url:
          type: string
          format: url
          example: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bit-photos/thumb/7481529.jpeg
        facebook_page_url:
          type: string
          format: url
          example: https://www.facebook.com/maroon5
        mbid:
          type: string
          example: 0ab49580-c84f-44d4-875f-d83760ea2cfe
        tracker_count:
          type: integer
        upcoming_event_count:
          type: integer