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Bandsintown Python Client

Simple Python client for version 3 of the Bandsintown API.

See the official API documentation for more details.

Requirements

Python 2.x or 3.x

Installation

pip install python-bandsintown

Instantiation

Your app id can be anything, but usage requires written permission from Bandsintown, see here: http://www.artists.bandsintown.com/bandsintown-api/#1-pick-application-id

from bandsintown import Client
client = Client('mybandapp')

API

artists

Find a single artist by name:

client.artists('Bad Religion')

Example response:

{
  'facebook_page_url': 'https://www.facebook.com/badreligion',
  'upcoming_event_count': 16,
  'name': 'Bad Religion',
  'url': 'https://www.bandsintown.com/a/658?came_from=267&app_id=bandsintown-test-client',
  'tracker_count': 477737,
  'mbid': '149e6720-4e4a-41a4-afca-6d29083fc091',
  'image_url': 'https://s3.amazonaws.com/bit-photos/large/6277078.jpeg',
  'thumb_url': 'https://s3.amazonaws.com/bit-photos/thumb/6277078.jpeg',
  'id': '658'
}

See the official API documentation for this endpoint here: https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/Bandsintown/PublicAPI/3.0.0#/single_artist_information/artist

artist_events

Get a single artist's events, with an optional date parameter that can be a single date in the format: yyyy-mm-dd, a date range in the format: yyyy-mm-dd,yyyy-mm-dd, or a keyword value of all or upcoming.

client.artist_events('Bad Religion')

Fetch events for a specific date

client.artists_events('Bad Religion', date='2015-08-30')

Fetch events within a date range

client.artists_events('Bad Religion', date='2015-08-30,2015-12-25')

Example Response:

[
  {
    'artist_id': '658',
    'datetime': '2018-05-04T13:00:00',
    'description': '2 Day Pass - Hell and Heaven 2018',
    'id': '20590797',
    'lineup': ['Bad Religion'],
    'offers': [{
      'status': 'available',
      'type': 'Tickets',
      'url': 'https://www.bandsintown.com/t/20590797?app_id=bandsintown-test-client&came_from=267'
    }],
    'on_sale_datetime': '2017-10-09T16:00:00',
    'url': 'https://www.bandsintown.com/e/20590797?app_id=bandsintown-test-client&came_from=267',
    'venue': {
      'city': 'Mexico City',
      'country': 'Mexico',
      'latitude': '19.40259',
      'longitude': '-99.09815',
      'name': 'Aut\xf3dromo Hermanos Rodr\xedguez',
      'region': 'DF'
    }
  }
  # ...
]

See the official API documentation for this endpoint here: https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/Bandsintown/PublicAPI/3.0.0#/upcoming_artist_events

Errors

BandsintownError

This serves as the base class for other exceptions, so can be used to catch all errors from this client. Currently it's only raised in the artists_events in the event of an unknown error.

BandsintownInvalidAppIdError

This error is raised whenever a request is made with an invalid app id specified at client instantiation.

BandsintownInvalidDateFormatError

This error is raised by the artists_events method when a date parameter is passed in an invalid format.