Concert-Watcher

Searching through the ticketmaster website manually is an absolute pain. Instead of that this script will query the ticketmaster API for a list of nearby concerts and then compare the artists with a list of artists you want to be notified about.

Notifications can then be sent via Discord to keep you updated on any new concerts that you might be interested in.

Getting Start

Theres a few things you'll need to set up before running this script.

1. Ticketmaster API Token

You'll need to create a new Ticketmaster API token on developer.ticketmaster.com

2. Artists file

A file containing a list of artists (1 per line) that you want to be notified about will need to created and passed to the application via the --artist-file flag.

An example artist file might look something like the following:

Bad Omens
Bleed From Within
Bring Me The Horizon
Bury Tomorrow

In the future I would like to provide support for scraping Youtube Music and/or Spotify for a list of artists but as of right now this needs to be manually populated. (Some copy/pasting and a few sed commands will likely do the trick here to quickly get this generated)

3. Customise the Ticketmaster Search Criteria

Ticketmaster covers a lot of events and regions so to help reduce the search space we can make use of a YAML file that provides extra query parameters to our API calls.

An example YAML file can be found in ./helm/files/ticketmaster.yaml. As an example, the following criteria will filter our results to show concerts taking place anywhere in Ireland:

# Filter results to Ireland.
countryCode: IE

# Filter results to concerts.
classificationName: music

Check out https://developer.ticketmaster.com/products-and-docs/apis/discovery-api/v2/#search-events-v2 for a full list of supported filters.

4. (Optional) Discord Notifications

The current notification mechanism is via Discord Webhooks. Check out the official discord support page for information on how to create a webhook for your discord server: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/228383668-Intro-to-Webhooks

By default we will send a notification / print out the list of matching events every time the application runs. If you would instead only like to be notified when something new pops up you can make use of the --diff flag to keep track of which events we've already been notified of and avoid sending out duplicate notifications across runs.

Running the application

Docker

Assuming that you have placed your ticketmaster YAML and your artists file in a folder called /path/to/config we can run the following:

docker run --rm -it \
   -v /path/to/config:/config:Z \
   -e TICKETMASTER_API_KEY=ticketmaster_api_key_goes_here \
   -e DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL=discord_webhook_url_goes_here \
   ryanconnell/concert-watcher:latest \
   sh -c '/bin/concert-watcher scan --api-key=$TICKETMASTER_API_KEY --artist-file=/config/artists --ticketmaster-config=/config/ticketmaster.yaml --discord-webhook-url=$DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL'

Don't forget to replace the ticketmaster_api_key_goes_here and discord_webhook_url_goes_here with the values you generated in the above sections.