Compiling A Complete List of Venues for a given metro area

[Thomas Flood]

Hi All, 

I have been working on pulling venue data from the API for a given metro area. 

For Example NYC 

My Goal is to get a complete list of venues in that city. 

My method is to call to the upcoming events by metro area and parse all the venues mentioned in the response. 

i..e. I call to API requesting GET upcoming events & I get all the venue objects associated with those upcoming events. 

But what if there is a venue with no gigs upcoming? that venue is missed. 

Or what if the gigs upcoming are too far into the future and are therefore not included in the response? 

In both these examples the venue will be excluded and my results will be incomplete. 

This is my problem. 

So; Does anyone know

When we call to API eg > https://api.songkick.com/api/3.0/metro_areas/7644/calendar.json?

Do these results return ALL known upcoming events? Or is this some limited period into the future?

My theory is that it is all known upcoming events but I have not been able to devise a way to test this. May Songkick would confirm? im not sure. .

Any ideas on how to test the above theory?

Best

Thomas.