Ticketmaster Scraper for Event, Venue and Ticket Price Data

The Ticketmaster Event Record: Dates, Sale Windows, Price Bands and Seat Categories

A single event record is wider than buyers expect. The field names below are the platform's own.

• When it happens. dates.start carries localDate and localTime as the venue reads them, dateTime in UTC, and four honest flags - dateTBD, dateTBA, timeTBA and noSpecificTime - for announcements that are not settled. dates.timezone holds an IANA zone such as America/Chicago, so a Ticketmaster price or a door time never has to be inferred from the city name.
• Whether it is selling. dates.status.code takes onsale, offsale, canceled, postponed or rescheduled. sales.public gives startDateTime, endDateTime and a startTBD flag. sales.presales is a list, each entry with its own name, description, link and window, which is how fan club, card holder and venue presales stay apart instead of collapsing into one date.
• What it costs. priceRanges is an array of currency, min and max, and its type is standard: the primary face value band, not the seat you will be offered. The storefront record goes deeper and splits each offer into face_value, face_value_tax, facility, service, service_tax and distance, then reports faceValue, combinedFees and a rolled up all-in figure per seat.
• Where you sit. areaGroups list sections with a description and a locationSecname; secnames map price level codes such as P1 onto their labels; quantities carry minimum, limit, exact and multiple, so a pair-only or no-single-seat rule is machine readable; seatmap is a static image URL rather than geometry.
• The venue. Name, street lines, city, stateCode, countryCode, postalCode, latitude, longitude, timezone, default currency, market and DMA membership, plus box office detail - phone number, opening hours, accepted payment, will call - and parkingDetail, accessibleSeatingDetail, generalRule and childRule.
• The rest of the card. pleaseNote for event notes, ticketLimit and accessibility text, ageRestrictions, promoter and promoters, products and outlets for packages and partner sites, images in 16_9, 3_2 and 4_3 ratios with a fallback flag when the picture belongs to the artist rather than the show, aliases, upcomingEvents counts, and the flags that decide behaviour: isResaleEligible, f2fexchange, isSecureEntry and disableTransfer.

Platinum, All In Pricing, Verified Resale and the Onsale Queue

Platinum is a ticket type, not a package. Official Platinum seats are priced by the event organizer and move with demand, and the platform states it runs no algorithmic surge pricing. They sit on the same map as ordinary inventory, and the legend keeps Available, Platinum, VIP, Verified Resale, Face Value Exchange and Accessibility apart, so a Ticketmaster price feed that flattens it blends four economics into one number.

Fees are folded in, taxes are not. The site displays an All In Price that folds required fees into the number: a service fee, plus a facility charge set by the venue. Delivery fees appear only if you pick paid delivery, and local taxes land at checkout unless the market includes them. On the European stack the split is explicit - price ranges arrive twice, once excluding ticket fees and once including them.

Resale lives inside the storefront. Verified Resale listings are priced by the seller, labelled before purchase, and may sit above or below face value. Where an artist caps resale at the price paid, the listing becomes a Face Value Exchange with no resale fee. A resale ticket can still print the original buyer's name and price; the barcode is what admits you.

Big onsales run through a queue. A waiting room opens ahead of the sale, the queue screens for bots and hands out places in line, and a turn is held for ten minutes. The queue path is closed to crawlers in robots.txt along with the seating chart and internal availability endpoints, and ticket limits are set per event and checked on every transaction.