Meetup API vs Songkick API for AI agents
Meetup API is Meetup's GraphQL API for groups, events and members, authenticated with OAuth access tokens. Songkick API is Songkick's concerts and festivals API for live music events, artists, venues and metro areas.
The short answer
- Meetup API: Finding community meetups and recurring group events, with a link to the Meetup page.
- Songkick API: Live music listings for existing licensed partners; new developers cannot get a key today.
Side by side
| Meetup API | Songkick API | |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | Events and groups (eventSearch and groupSearch replaced the old keywordSearch). | Concerts and festivals by artist, date, venue and location; artists, venues and metro areas; past concert history for artists. |
| Returns | Event title, event URL, description, date and time, duration, hosts, featured photo, group and RSVPs. | – |
| 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 approved API key under a partnership agreement with a license fee; no student, educational or hobbyist projects. |
| Paid | Not stated on its pages | A license fee is required; the amount is not published (details are in the application form). |
| Acting on a result | Event link: each event has its Meetup event URL (RSVP happens on Meetup). | A link to songkick.com is required; Songkick data may not be used to build a ticketing service. |
| Limits on keeping or showing results | Not stated on its pages | Cached data may be kept for at most 24 hours, and no copies of Songkick data may be retained; attribution is required wherever Songkick data is shown. |
| 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”
Songkick API, read on October 15, 2026:
- songkick.com/api_key_requests/new: “we are unable to process new applications for API keys.”
- songkick.com/developer: “Search for events by artist, date, venue, and location.”
- songkick.com/developer: “Search for artists, venues, and metro areas.”
- songkick.com/developer: “Use of the Songkick API will be subject to the standard terms of our partnership agreement and a license fee.”
- songkick.com/developer: “pay the standard license fee (details in form)”
- songkick.com/developer: “We are currently not approving API requests for student projects, educational purposes or hobbyist purposes.”
- songkick.com/developer/api-terms-of-use: “retaining cached information for a maximum of 24 hours.”
- songkick.com/developer/api-terms-of-use: “You may not retain any copies of the Songkick Data”
- songkick.com/developer/api-terms-of-use: “You agree to clearly display attribution on your website or application wherever Songkick Data is used.”
- songkick.com/developer/api-terms-of-use: “you must provide a link to songkick.com using the standard linking format”
- songkick.com/developer/api-terms-of-use: “agree not to use Songkick Data to create either a primary or secondary ticketing service.”