swagger: '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
host: rest.bandsintown.com
schemes:
- https
tags:
- name: artist information
paths:
/artists/{artistname}:
get:
tags:
- artist information
summary: Get artist information
operationId: artist
description: 'Get artist information
'
produces:
- application/json
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
type: string
- in: query
name: app_id
description: The application ID assigned to you by Bandsintown
required: true
type: string
responses:
200:
description: 200 response
schema:
$ref: '#/definitions/ArtistData'
definitions:
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