default event sorting after upcoming API changes

[Lukáš Voborský]

hello, i received API changes notification (as like everyone else using EB) which basically tells that sorting will not be supported. as my use-case is to fetch just one upcoming event from organizer i feel that switching to proposed "retrieve all paginated results, implement sorting on your side" would at least generate unnecessary traffic, so my question is what will be default sorting for "/v3/organizers/{organizer_id}/events" and can i rely on it in case it would be like "event.start_date ascending" or do i really need to go through fetching all (paginated) results, sorting them and than dropping 99% of them? thanks for any hint.

[Lukáš Voborský]

It seems that there is no ordering now, as can be seen in response for this request

https://www.eventbriteapi.com/v3/organizers/29551698925/events/start_date.range_start=2025-05-30T00:00:00

which returns (names & dates) records in random-like order

name=Marketing Breakthrough: 40X Your Spiritual Business [$297 Value]
start=2025-06-29T10:00:00 / Jun 29 10:00 AM
name=From Success To Significance: Keys To Your Highest Life [LIVE Masterclass]
start=2026-04-19T10:00:00 / Apr 19 10:00 AM
name=Leadership For Lightworkers: 1000x Your Impact (Live Masterclass)
start=2025-09-21T10:00:00 / Sep 21 10:00 AM
name=Master Self Healing: 7-Day Community Challenge [$397 Value]
start=2025-06-01T10:00:00 / Jun 1 10:00 AM
name=Advanced Energy Healing From Divine Mother [LIVE ]
start=2025-07-20T10:00:00 / Jul 20 10:00 AM
name=Heal Unworthiness: Breakthrough Energy From Divine Mother ($197 Value)
start=2025-12-07T10:00:00 / Dec 7 10:00 AM
name=Lightworkers: Private Community Launch (Live Orientation)
start=2025-09-07T10:00:00 / Sep 7 10:00 AM

so when i for example have organizer with thousands of events like

https://www.eventbrite.com/o/children-of-infinity-23364422056

do i need to fetch them all (it would take dozens of paginated requests) and make sorting on my end? really guys?

Dne úterý 20. května 2025 v 16:52:05 UTC+2 uživatel Lukáš Voborský napsal:

[Lukáš Voborský]

after further investigation, it looks like API is returning event sorted by "created", which, no offense, makes only a little sense for further processing, and mainly - implicates that for standard API usage the need for separate sorting. even on eventbrite.com web, there is default sorting set to "start" date and i think that most API usages would benefit when default API sorting would be "start" date ascending

API response (event name, start and created dates) for 

https://www.eventbriteapi.com/v3/organizers/29551698925/events/start_date.range_start=2025-05-30T00:00:00

where that "created" ascending sort is clearly visible

name=Marketing Breakthrough: 40X Your Spiritual Business [$297 Value]

start=2025-06-29T10:00:00 / Jun 29 10:00 AM

created=2025-01-25T14:10:15Z

name=From Success To Significance: Keys To Your Highest Life [LIVE Masterclass]

start=2026-04-19T10:00:00 / Apr 19 10:00 AM

created=2025-02-27T20:19:09Z

name=Leadership For Lightworkers: 1000x Your Impact (Live Masterclass)

start=2025-09-21T10:00:00 / Sep 21 10:00 AM

created=2025-03-04T17:32:04Z

name=Master Self Healing: 7-Day Community Challenge [$397 Value]

start=2025-06-01T10:00:00 / Jun 1 10:00 AM

created=2025-03-21T21:24:34Z

name=Advanced Energy Healing From Divine Mother [LIVE ]

start=2025-07-20T10:00:00 / Jul 20 10:00 AM

created=2025-03-28T21:39:01Z

name=Heal Unworthiness: Breakthrough Energy From Divine Mother ($197 Value)

start=2025-12-07T10:00:00 / Dec 7 10:00 AM

created=2025-04-04T01:28:42Z

name=Lightworkers: Private Community Launch (Live Orientation)

start=2025-09-07T10:00:00 / Sep 7 10:00 AM

created=2025-05-21T02:24:39Z

Dne úterý 20. května 2025 v 16:52:05 UTC+2 uživatel Lukáš Voborský napsal:

hello, i received API changes notification (as like everyone else using EB) which basically tells that sorting will not be supported. as my use-case is to fetch just one upcoming event from organizer i feel that switching to proposed "retrieve all paginated results, implement sorting on your side" would at least generate unnecessary traffic, so my question is what will be default sorting for "/v3/organizers/{organizer_id}/events" and can i rely on it in case it would be like "event.start_date ascending" or do i really need to go through fetching all (paginated) results, sorting them and than dropping 99% of them? thanks for any hint.