Resident Advisor Scraper for Club Events, Lineups and Ticket Prices

Resident Advisor Scraping Output: What a Single Event Record Holds

Resident Advisor scraping pays off on the event page, where one record ties together the club, the artists, the promoters and the area. Field names below are RA's own.

• Time. date, startTime and endTime arrive as local wall-clock values without an offset; the area supplies the IANA zone, such as Europe/Berlin or Asia/Tokyo, so start times convert cleanly to UTC across cities. dateUpdated marks the last edit.
• Place. The venue brings its name, street address, latitude and longitude, and a tba flag for addresses announced later; the area brings the country and its default currency.
• Lineup. The lineup field keeps floor headings such as BASEMENT, STUDIO or 4F and wraps each linked act in its RA artist id, while acts without a profile stay plain text. artists lists the linked acts and promoters the organisers; when a club promotes its own night, the organiser link points to the club page.
• Sound. genres as id, name and slug, from Acid and Afro House to Techno and Trance, plus the RA Pick blurb when RA singles a night out. Many listings leave genres empty, so a genre filter on its own undercounts.
• Door policy. minimumAge as a number, typically 18 in London and Berlin, 20 in Tokyo and 21 in New York.
• Demand. interestedCount as an exact integer, while the page rounds it to figures like 1.5K.
• Tickets. isTicketed says whether RA Tickets sells the night. If so, each tier carries its title (Early bird, 1st release, Final release, RSVP), retail price, currency, on-sale time and one of four states: VALID, SOLDOUT, NOLONGERONSALE or NOTYETONSALE. Packages such as a return bus or a group ticket sit in the same list, so we flag them apart from entry. If not sold on RA, a free-text cost line and promotionalLinks point to the outside seller. Status words such as SOLD OUT or POSTPONED turn up in titles, typed by the promoter, so we lift them into fields.

The schema.org MusicEvent block on the page carries a single offer, normally the cheapest tier still on sale, so Resident Advisor ticket prices by tier have to come from the data layer rather than from structured data.

Resident Advisor Resale, Ticket Fees, the Resale Queue and the RA Podcast

Resident Advisor ticket fees sit inside the price. RA's service fee is included in what the buyer pays and the promoter receives that price minus the fee, so a tier the promoter quotes at 39.00 sells at 44.05. The free-text cost line usually shows the promoter's figure, typed with comma decimals, a trailing euro sign or no currency at all, and on nights sold elsewhere it is the only price. We keep both. Hidden tiers never reach the public record.

Resident Advisor resale is capped. Once every release of a ticket type sells out, the resale queue opens, as it does on almost every event unless the promoter switches it off. Tickets resell in the order they were queued, always at the final tier price; the original is cancelled, the seller is refunded minus an administrative fee and the promoter keeps the difference. Barcodes are issued only 24 hours before the event, so demand shows in the resaleActive flag, the Interested count and how fast tiers flip to SOLDOUT, never in a marked-up price.

The Resident Advisor podcast. The weekly RA Podcast is a public, numbered catalogue whose page ids run ahead of the RA numbers in episode titles, so the two must never be swapped. Each episode carries the artist link, length, tracklist where published and a SoundCloud stream, mirrored in an XML feed. Reviews typed ALBUM, SINGLE, SHORTSINGLE or EVENT, with a Recommended flag and catalogue number, complete the Resident Advisor database behind the magazine.