Give an AI assistant a discovery-only local-events tool for free, or license the same nationwide feed through a production REST API. Coverage includes farmers markets, county library programmes, brewery gigs, civic events, and other long-tail sources alongside major ticketing feeds.
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OpenAPI 3.1, keyset pagination, 60 requests/minute, and up to 100 events per page.
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}Each of these says plainly where the other product is the better choice, because for the inventory they originate it usually is.
The Ticketmaster Discovery API covers ticketed inventory from its own platforms. If you need farmers markets, library programmes and community nights, here is what a complementary feed looks like.
Eventbrite removed public event search from its API in December 2019. Everything that remains is scoped to organizations you control. Here is what to use for third-party event discovery.
Meetup's REST API is retired and GraphQL access requires a Meetup Pro subscription from $55 per group per month. Here is what a self-serve alternative for local community events costs and covers.
Most event APIs resell the same ticketed inventory. This one is built on the long tail: thousands of individual sources across all 50 US states, queryable and filterable by source.