Any categorization of event type?

[Chris G]

Hi,

We're just starting to work with the API. We're looking for a field
to identify a type or category of an event. Something like "Concert"
or "Art Exhibit" or anything really. There's a field called
"showType" but I don't think I've seen an event yet that has a value
there.

Is that a bug? Do you guys require categories/types for each event?

regards,
-Chris

[Adam Creeger]

Hey Chris,

We currently don't expose the category of event. Although the showType field look like it is what you want, it is in fact (rarely-used) field that is used to indicate if the show is early/late/matinee.

A large proportion of our events are music concerts. As that changes, we will introduce an event "category" field - but there are no firm plans to do so right now.

Sorry about that,

Adam

[Oleg Kaganovich]

Hey Adam,

Same question, as it has been over a year since your reply below.  Have you introduced an event category field yet?  Thanks.

[Tristan Eastburn]

Hi Oleg,

I wish I had good news for you! But I don't. We still don't have this feature but it is on our backlog and one that we definitely understand the importance of.

Best,

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[s...@shubaloo.com]

I'm also interested in a top level categorization, specifically to answer whether an event is a concert or not.

I'm building a concert discovery app and just started looking into the ticketfly api yesterday. In case this is helpful for anyone, I have a work-around that looks reasonable to me so far.

What I'm doing is finding facebook pages of performer on events and checking the page category. I'm using java with spring social, simplified version of implementation:

String fbUrl = headliner.getString("urlFacebook")

String fbPageId = fbUrl.substring(fbUrl.lastIndexOf("/") + 1)

Page page = facebook.fetchObject(fbPageId, Page.class);

if (!"Musician/band".equals(page.getCategory())) {

   eventCategory=Concert

}

Definitely not perfect, but seems to work well enough. At least in the cities I've test this on, I've found most music events have at least one performer that I could find a facebook page with the musician category.

The nice thing about doing this is that the page also comes with other useful info, such as genre.

Hope that helps. And if anyone is interested in what I'm doing, I have a beta at http://shubaloo.com

[David Klebanoff]

Interesting hack Shubaloo. 

I just wanted to share that I too would find it incredibly useful to have an event category!

-David

[Bill Rousseau]

Hi All,

Great to see the discussion and ideas here. Event genres are still something we'd like to add, but I don't believe it's coming soon. We'll make sure to update the group with any new additions.

Thanks!
-b

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[Max Micheliov]

Hi all! Yes, I'd like to confirm a high interest in this feature - added event type. Moreover for such an extensive database of live data sub categories would be super useful. So live music could have genres: rock, pop, classical, jazz, country... well, at least. Otherwise it is very limiting for external usage. 

[Chris LeFevre]

Any updates? This feature would be useful to our company as well.

[Bill Rousseau]

Hi All,

Event categories and genres are something many folks at Ticketfly are passionate about. That said, there are no concrete plans for adding them to this API at present. I would not be surprised if that changed, but want to be transparent that it's not in the current short term roadmap.

Thanks!

-b

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[David Klebanoff]

Hi Bill et al,

I appreciate the openness! From the outside, it appears that TicketFly does not see much value in its API program, and by extension it's affiliate program if it's unable to offer such basic and core data to its API partners. I would urge the TicketFly team to reconsider.

-David

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[David Richardson]

Agreed.  Categories (Genres) have much value to Affiliate Users and to Ticketfly.  We have been using Ticketfly's API for four years and strongly encourage Ticketfly to adopt a relatively basic feature.  Who can I speak with to persuade implementing this?  

Appreciate any help,

Dave