Meetup API vs Bandsintown API for AI agents
Meetup API is Meetup's GraphQL API for groups, events and members, authenticated with OAuth access tokens. 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
- Meetup API: Finding community meetups and recurring group events, with a link to the Meetup page.
- Bandsintown API: An artist's own website showing that artist's tour dates with ticket links.
Side by side
| Meetup API | Bandsintown API | |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | Events and groups (eventSearch and groupSearch replaced the old keywordSearch). | Upcoming and past events for one artist, looked up by artist name or ID; there is no open search across all events. |
| Returns | Event title, event URL, description, date and time, duration, hosts, featured photo, group and RSVPs. | Event date and time, venue name and location, lineup, description, ticket links (offers) and the Bandsintown event link. |
| Before the first call | A Meetup account with a registered OAuth client and an access token. Rate limit: 500 query points every 60 seconds. | 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 | Event link: each event has its Meetup event URL (RSVP happens on Meetup). | 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 | Not stated on its pages | Session-based caching is allowed if you notify Bandsintown; content must be attributed to Bandsintown. |
| MCP server | No official server listed | – |
Where Openpath fits
Openpath has no event listings yet. Events are on its roadmap, from organizers who list them themselves. Get listed.
Questions people ask
What do I need before I can use Meetup API?
A Meetup account with a registered OAuth client and an access token. Rate limit: 500 query points every 60 seconds.
Is Meetup API free?
Its pages listed no free use when we read them on October 15, 2026.
Sources
Every line about another company comes from its own pages. Prices and terms change, so check the source before you rely on one.
Meetup API, read on October 15, 2026:
- meetup.com/api/guide: “Meetup uses access tokens to authenticate GraphQL requests.”
- meetup.com/api/guide: “The API currently allows you to have 500 points in your queries every 60 seconds.”
- meetup.com/api/guide: “Split into: groupSearch, eventSearch”
- meetup.com/api/guide: “title eventUrl description dateTime duration eventHosts { memberId name }”
- meetup.com/api/authentication: “you need to either register a new OAuth client or add a redirect_uri to an existing client”
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)”