Eventbrite API vs Bandsintown API for AI agents
Eventbrite API is Eventbrite's REST API (v3) for working with events, orders, attendees and organizations on Eventbrite. Bandsintown API is an API for artists and their teams to show their own Bandsintown tour dates on their websites and apps.
The short answer
- Eventbrite API: Managing your own Eventbrite events or reading events from venues and organizers whose IDs you already know; not for open discovery.
- Bandsintown API: An artist's own website showing that artist's tour dates with ticket links.
Side by side
| Eventbrite API | Bandsintown API | |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | No public event search: the Event Search endpoint was shut down in December 2019. You can fetch an event by ID and list events by venue ID or organization ID. | Upcoming and past events for one artist, looked up by artist name or ID; there is no open search across all events. |
| Returns | Event records retrieved by event ID, or paginated lists of events for a known venue or organization. | Event date and time, venue name and location, lineup, description, ticket links (offers) and the Bandsintown event link. |
| Before the first call | – | An API key (app_id) from Bandsintown for Artists, linked to a single artist; other uses need Bandsintown's approval or a partnership. |
| Acting on a result | – | Ticket link: events include ticket offers, and the terms may require using Bandsintown's ticket links as the primary ones. |
| Limits on keeping or showing results | – | Session-based caching is allowed if you notify Bandsintown; content must be attributed to Bandsintown. |
Where Openpath fits
Openpath has no event listings yet. Events are on its roadmap, from organizers who list them themselves. Get listed.
Sources
Every line about another company comes from its own pages. Prices and terms change, so check the source before you rely on one.
Eventbrite API, read on October 15, 2026:
- eventbrite.com/platform/api: “Access to this API was shut down at 11:59 pm PT on Thursday, December 12, 2019.”
- eventbrite.com/platform/api: “List Events by Venue ID. Returns a paginated response.”
- eventbrite.com/platform/api: “List Events by Organization ID. Returns a paginated response.”
- eventbrite.com/platform/api: “Retrieve an Event by Event ID.”
Bandsintown API, read on October 15, 2026:
- help.artists.bandsintown.com/en/articles/7053475-what-is-the-bandsintown-api: “designed for artists looking to promote their shows on their websites”
- help.artists.bandsintown.com/en/articles/7053475-what-is-the-bandsintown-api: “Each API Key is linked to a single artist unless authorized otherwise by Bandsintown.”
- help.artists.bandsintown.com/en/articles/9186477-api-documentation: “returns the list of events including their date and time, venue name and location, ticket links”
- help.artists.bandsintown.com/en/articles/9186477-api-documentation: “If there are no tickets or live shows in an event, the "offers" array will be empty.”
- corp.bandsintown.com/data-applications-terms: “meant to be used solely by artists, or people working in connection with or on behalf of artists”
- corp.bandsintown.com/data-applications-terms: “cannot be used under any other circumstances unless specifically approved by Bandsintown”
- corp.bandsintown.com/data-applications-terms: “You may employ session-based caching of Bandsintown API results, provided that you notify us of such caching”
- corp.bandsintown.com/data-applications-terms: “fails to attribute the Bandsintown Content appropriately to Bandsintown is expressly prohibited”
- corp.bandsintown.com/data-applications-terms: “the ticket link(s) provided to you by the Bandsintown Data Applications as the primary ticket link(s)”