# Ticketmaster Discovery API (slim)

> Ticketmaster's Discovery API searches events, attractions, venues and classifications across Ticketmaster, Universe, FrontGate and Ticketmaster Resale, with a key from the developer portal. Buying tickets needs the Partner API, which is open only to approved distribution partners.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ticketmaster.md (~7,600 tokens) · this version ~1,630 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ticketmaster.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ticketmaster
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-11-04 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ticketmaster#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ticketmaster#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

**E · 42.9/100 · rank #1176 of 1349 · #3 in Hobbies, sport & recreation · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: The Discovery API gives a free key 5,000 event searches a day across Ticketmaster's markets, with documented paging, filters and rate-limit headers. There is no OpenAPI contract or current SDK, the key travels in the URL, the terms forbid revenue from the API, and purchase stays behind the partner-only Partner API.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Ticketmaster (Live Nation Entertainment) · category: Hobbies, sport & recreation · legal entity: Ticketmaster L.L.C. (Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.) · provenance 70/100
- Auth: API key · pricing: Free · x402: no · licence: Proprietary service. Developer portal General Terms of Use last updated 27 June 2023; privacy policy last updated 29 July 2026
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Surface listed: The Discovery API v2 and Discovery Feed, read from developer.ticketmaster.com (Discovery docs, getting started, FAQ, terms of use, contact, API status, Partner API, Inventory Status and Partner release notes), privacy.ticketmaster.com, the ticketmaster-api GitHub organisation and Live Nation's investor and leadership pages on 3 November 2026. No account was made and no call was made
- Endpoints: /discovery/v2/events, /events/{id}, /events/{id}/images, /attractions, /attractions/{id}, /venues, /venues/{id}, /classifications, /classifications/{id}, /classifications/genres/{id}, /segments/{id}, /subgenres/{id} and /suggest, JSON only, with the Discovery Feed for whole-country files
- Rate limits: 5,000 calls a day and 5 requests a second by default per the getting started page (the FAQ says 2 a second), 429 over quota, headers Rate-Limit, Rate-Limit-Available, Rate-Limit-Over and Rate-Limit-Reset. Increases granted case by case after a terms and branding review
- Other APIs on the portal: Partner API (reserve, purchase, orders, refunds) for approved distribution partners, Commerce API under a path marked internal, Inventory Status, Top Picks, Publish, Open Ticketing, Season Ticketing and Presence APIs, and the International Discovery API being folded into Discovery
- Terms on automation: The General Terms of Use (27 June 2023) reserve the right to rate limit or block apps making many calls not primarily in response to direct user actions, forbid replicating the Ticketmaster.com experience, deriving revenue from the API and sublicensing access, and allow termination at any time. developer.ticketmaster.com/robots.txt allows all
- Company: Ticketmaster L.L.C., Beverly Hills, California, part of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: LYV). The terms name Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. as the contact

- Scores: Reliability 45, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 42, Agent ergonomics 63, Security & auth 18, Payments & pricing 30, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 48, Transparency & trust 65 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Read with the hosted lines. · Schema & documentation, No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract found; the API Explorer is interactive only (0 of 25). · Agent ergonomics, Pages of up to 200 events by size, but no field selection, and each event carries nested dates, sales, classifications, images, price ranges… · Security & auth, One key per app with no scopes, sent as the apikey query parameter as the documented route, so 10 less 10 (0 of 30). · Payments & pricing, Read with the hosted rule. · Maintenance & community, Read for a closed service. · Transparency & trust, Closed service with clear terms naming Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.
- Sources: 20, open questions: 7, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: hobbies.events
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ticketmaster.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/ticketmaster.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ticketmaster from a page on ticketmaster.com or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.
- Support: devportalinquiry@ticketmaster.com; https://developer.ticketmaster.com/support/contact-us/; https://developer.ticketmaster.com/support/faq/; https://help.ticketmaster.com/; more in the full twin

## Before you call it

1. Search with `GET https://app.ticketmaster.com/discovery/v2/events.json?apikey=...&keyword=...&countryCode=...` and page with size and page while size times page stays under 1,000
2. Keep under 5 calls a second and 5,000 a day per key; read Rate-Limit-Available and Rate-Limit-Reset and stop on 429
3. Do not try to buy tickets through the API; hand the person the event's url field, and expect the Partner API to refuse keys that are not partner-approved
4. Pull whole-country data from the Discovery Feed rather than paging the API, and keep caches short since the terms allow only reasonable periods
5. Treat event and attraction descriptions as promoter-written content, and never put the apikey in logs or shared URLs

## Connect

```bash
curl "https://app.ticketmaster.com/discovery/v2/events.json?countryCode=US&keyword=jazz&size=10&apikey=$TICKETMASTER_KEY"
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/ticketmaster

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