StubHub API vs Songkick API for AI agents
StubHub API is StubHub's OAuth2 REST API for searching events, buying tickets and listing tickets on the StubHub marketplace. Songkick API is Songkick's concerts and festivals API for live music events, artists, venues and metro areas.
The short answer
- StubHub API: Approved affiliate and reseller partners who want to search and buy resale tickets from StubHub inside their own product.
- Songkick API: Live music listings for existing licensed partners; new developers cannot get a key today.
Side by side
| StubHub API | Songkick API | |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | Events on the StubHub ticket marketplace (catalog), plus inventory, sales and account data for partners. | Concerts and festivals by artist, date, venue and location; artists, venues and metro areas; past concert history for artists. |
| Before the first call | Access is granted on request: affiliates and buyer-facing apps email StubHub's affiliate team, seller tools email API support; every request needs an OAuth2 token. | An approved API key under a partnership agreement with a license fee; no student, educational or hobbyist projects. |
| Paid | – | A license fee is required; the amount is not published (details are in the application form). |
| Acting on a result | Checkout through the API (purchase tickets for an event), for partners who are given access. | A link to songkick.com is required; Songkick data may not be used to build a ticketing service. |
| Limits on keeping or showing results | – | 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. |
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.
StubHub API, read on October 15, 2026:
- developer.stubhub.com/docs/overview/introduction: “search for and view events, purchase tickets for an event or list tickets on the StubHub platform”
- developer.stubhub.com/docs/overview/introduction: “OAuth2 is used for all authentication.”
- developer.stubhub.com/blog: “To get access, please contact one of the email addresses below:”
- developer.stubhub.com/blog: “If you are a current affiliate partner or are building something that helps buyers find tickets to purchase”
- developer.stubhub.com/blog: “we are experiencing high volumes of requests for API support”
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.”