concert listing API

Does anyone know of an API that can be used to see whether or not an artist/band is having a concert within X dates (or even at all in the future)?

Anything that lets a website integrate into concert dates and such....anyone know of *anything* related?

Thanks!

Jonathan

 

i would suggest the SOAP protocol. it's basically an XML protocol that lets applications exchange data over HTTP so it's perfect for what you want. think of it as an XML feed (often used with RSS) because that is what it is.

SOAP request:

POST /InStock HTTP/1.1
Host: [url]www.example.org[/url]
Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: nnn

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<soap:Envelope
xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope"
soap:encodingStyle="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-encoding">

  <soap:Body xmlns:m="http://www.example.org/stock">
    <m:GetStockPrice>
      <m:StockName>IBM</m:StockName>
    </m:GetStockPrice>
  </soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

Code (markup):

SOAP response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: nnn

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<soap:Envelope
xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope"
soap:encodingStyle="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-encoding">

  <soap:Body xmlns:m="http://www.example.org/stock">
    <m:GetStockPriceResponse>
      <m:Price>34.5</m:Price>
    </m:GetStockPriceResponse>
  </soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

Code (markup):

if you're interested, i got this information from http://www.w3schools.com/soap/default.asp

 

Ok, that's great, but where can I get the actual data from? I know how to do it already, I just don't know of a reliable source...

 

that i can't tell you. maybe scrape ticketmaster or something i don't know.

 

Thanks, but that was the whole point of this thread. I'm looking for a source for the data.

 

I am interested in this as well...

 

well perhaps this isn't the right forum then. i assumed that since you asked in the programming forum that you were looking for information on how to write one.

 

I didn't see another forum suitable for this request. I did look though.