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Devil is in the details. There's just no place to reliably source all of the events that are happening. Sure you can get the ones that sell tickets through tick

by mnx 9y ago

Devil is in the details. There's just no place to reliably source all of the events that are happening. Sure you can get the ones that sell tickets through ticketmaster, or whatever, but nobody reliably aggregates all the smaller concerts. So this will always be badly incomplete. Discovering all those shows is on of my main use-cases for facebook right now - it's the one place (almost) all of them show up.

jordanlev 9y ago
A few years back I made a hobby project like this -- it scraped the website of the local free weekly paper (since they have pretty much every concert listing, large and small) and then did a youtube search on band names so you'd see an embedded video or two for each show. I think most larger cities (and smaller cities if they have a large university) have such a newspaper (e.g. Village Voice in NYC, Willamette Week in PDX, The Mercury in Seattle, etc)
- mnx 9y ago
  Maybe it's better in the states, but where I live the papers don't come close to being a complete listing. They will have the major stuff, and some of the smaller shows too - but a large part is still missing. And it's not a small city - 2 mln people, capital, and quite an active music and culture scene.
SOLAR_FIELDS 9y ago
Indeed, this sadly will not be scalable to certain cities where the data source is incomplete. The author had posted this on the Austin subreddit a few weeks ago and I asked him if the source of the data was Showlist Austin (http://showlistaustin.com/ http://showlistaustin.com/) and he/she confirmed that it was in fact at least one of the sources for the Austin data. It's great that we have that site for Austin but it's probably the only place I've ever been that has that complete of a list of good local shows.
wuliwong 9y ago
Yes, the first website I ever made was in this space for Philadelphia. I wanted to make show listings with playable songs for every night of the week. I just manually found listings and found youtube links and built it. Every site I found always had a bunch of cruft. This was in 2011, figured it had improved by now. :)
rahidz2003 9y ago
How about crowdsourcing the info somehow, maybe letting people enter it for their city from some source and making that public for everyone?
- metakermit 9y ago
  I started such a crowdsourcing effort some time ago :) https://www.reddit.com/r/MusicEventsHackers/comments/87ui5l/a_crowdsourced_google_sheet_with_cool_venues/?ref=share&ref_source=link https://www.reddit.com/r/MusicEventsHackers/comments/87ui5l/...
  - wuliwong 9y ago
    that is an intense google sheet. :)
    - metakermit 9y ago
      Thanks, yeah I posted it to different music subreddits, so I thought I should try and make it eye-catching :)

by mnx 9y ago

jordanlev 9y ago

A few years back I made a hobby project like this -- it scraped the website of the local free weekly paper (since they have pretty much every concert listing, large and small) and then did a youtube search on band names so you'd see an embedded video or two for each show. I think most larger cities (and smaller cities if they have a large university) have such a newspaper (e.g. Village Voice in NYC, Willamette Week in PDX, The Mercury in Seattle, etc)

mnx 9y ago
Maybe it's better in the states, but where I live the papers don't come close to being a complete listing. They will have the major stuff, and some of the smaller shows too - but a large part is still missing. And it's not a small city - 2 mln people, capital, and quite an active music and culture scene.

SOLAR_FIELDS 9y ago

Indeed, this sadly will not be scalable to certain cities where the data source is incomplete. The author had posted this on the Austin subreddit a few weeks ago and I asked him if the source of the data was Showlist Austin (http://showlistaustin.com/ http://showlistaustin.com/) and he/she confirmed that it was in fact at least one of the sources for the Austin data. It's great that we have that site for Austin but it's probably the only place I've ever been that has that complete of a list of good local shows.

wuliwong 9y ago

Yes, the first website I ever made was in this space for Philadelphia. I wanted to make show listings with playable songs for every night of the week. I just manually found listings and found youtube links and built it. Every site I found always had a bunch of cruft. This was in 2011, figured it had improved by now. :)

rahidz2003 9y ago

How about crowdsourcing the info somehow, maybe letting people enter it for their city from some source and making that public for everyone?

metakermit 9y ago
I started such a crowdsourcing effort some time ago :) https://www.reddit.com/r/MusicEventsHackers/comments/87ui5l/a_crowdsourced_google_sheet_with_cool_venues/?ref=share&ref_source=link https://www.reddit.com/r/MusicEventsHackers/comments/87ui5l/...
- wuliwong 9y ago
  that is an intense google sheet. :)
  - metakermit 9y ago
    Thanks, yeah I posted it to different music subreddits, so I thought I should try and make it eye-catching :)