Add Get Tickets link to API requests

[Mi Jay]

I would like to have the API add an additional field with the URL to get tickets that Songkick displays on their website.   I would like to embed this link directly in the artist website so the user can avoid the extra step.

Lack of this field implies that tickets are not available to purchase for this event.

[Sabrina Leandro]

Hi,

Sorry, Songkick doesn't return ticket information in the API. The main reason is because that changes very frequently (whether it's sold out, prices, etc), and we scan for that information throughout the day. We want our users and partners to have the most up-to-date ticket information, and that's available in the Songkick event page (event/uri element).

Hope that makes sense!

On 17 October 2014 02:44, Mi Jay <mjj...@gmail.com> wrote:

I would like to have the API add an additional field with the URL to get tickets that Songkick displays on their website.   I would like to embed this link directly in the artist website so the user can avoid the extra step.

Lack of this field implies that tickets are not available to purchase for this event.

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[Ob4uma]

Frankly, it doesn't. The website widget is able to display a ticket link. The direct ticket link one includes in the tourbox using a custom url is completely static, so it would be easy to include this info in the api. 

As there is no way to point users to an an external site, this renders the api and songkick useless for me. It's not a good experience for customers to have to click through 3 websites to get to a place where they can buy tickets...  

[Paul Woods]

You want to use the Songkick API to get a ticket link so that customers can bypass Songkick...? I'm not sure why Songkick would enable that. Or why you would expect them to.

[Meinder Verheggen]

Songkick already shows this direct link in their Tour Box website embed. Would be great if developers using the api can also have access to these links.