🚀 We are hiring! See open positions
How to Scrape Ticketmaster
Ticketmaster is the biggest ticket marketplace. It lists concerts, sports, theater, and more, with dates, venues, prices, and availability. If you need event data for research or monitoring, it's a good place to start.

This guide shows how to scrape Ticketmaster with Python. We'll focus on what you can actually extract, how to do it, and how to avoid common blocks.

Why Scrape Ticketmaster?

Promoters and analysts track prices, tour routing, and availability. Fans and tools monitor new dates. Ticketmaster exposes event names, venues, locations, dates, and links you can collect at scale.

Understanding Ticketmaster's Structure

It's a modern JS app with data that loads after the first HTML. There are strong anti-bot checks. Expect some 403s and moving selectors.

Project Setup

We'll use a few Python libraries:

  • requests - HTTP library for making web requests
  • BeautifulSoup - HTML parsing library
  • json - For parsing JSON data embedded in pages

Install the required dependencies:

$ pip install requests beautifulsoup4

Prerequisites and Setup

Set up a minimal project for the scraper.

1. Install Dependencies

First, install the required dependencies:

$ pip install requests beautifulsoup4

2. Basic Setup and User Agent Rotation

Create scrape_ticketmaster.py and add a basic session with a rotated user agent:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import json
import re
import random
import time

# Simple list of user agents to rotate
user_agents = [
    'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.2227.0 Safari/537.36',
    'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
    'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.3497.92 Safari/537.36',
    'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
]

# Create session with random user agent
session = requests.Session()
session.headers.update({
    "User-Agent": random.choice(user_agents),
    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
    "Connection": "keep-alive",
    "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1"
})

3. Request Handling Function

This function sends the request and checks if the page is reachable.

def make_request(url):
    """Make a request to the Ticketmaster page"""
    try:
        # Add random delay to avoid rate limiting
        time.sleep(random.uniform(1, 3))
        
        response = session.get(url, timeout=15)
        
        # Check if blocked
        if response.status_code == 403:
            print("  ❌ Blocked (403 Forbidden)")
            return None
        
        # Check if successful
        if response.status_code == 200:
            print("  ✅ Successfully accessed page")
            return response
        else:
            print(f"  ❌ Error: Status code {response.status_code}")
            return None
            
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"  ❌ Error: {e}")
        return None

Scraping Artist Pages

Artist pages list shows, with dates, venues, locations, and ticket links. We'll extract those.

4. Artist URLs Configuration

Add the artist URLs you want to scrape:

# Artist URLs to scrape
artist_urls = [
    "https://www.ticketmaster.com/imagine-dragons-tickets/artist/1435919"
]

5. Extracting Artist Information

Grab the artist title, genre, and a quick concerts count with the selectors below.

def extract_artist_info(soup):
    """Extract artist information from the page"""
    artist_info = {}
    
    # Extract artist title (h1)
    artist_title = soup.find('h1')
    if artist_title:
        artist_info['title'] = artist_title.get_text().strip()
        print(f"  🎤 Artist: {artist_info['title']}")
    else:
        artist_info['title'] = "Unknown Artist"
        print("  🎤 Artist: Not found")
    
    # Extract genre using XPath equivalent
    # XPath: //*[@id="main-content"]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/div/p
    genre_elem = soup.select_one('#main-content > div:nth-child(1) > div:nth-child(2) > div > div > div > p')
    if genre_elem:
        artist_info['genre'] = genre_elem.get_text().strip()
        print(f"  🎵 Genre: {artist_info['genre']}")
    else:
        artist_info['genre'] = "Unknown Genre"
        print("  🎵 Genre: Not found")
    
    # Extract number of concerts using XPath equivalent
    # XPath: //*[@id="pageInfo"]/div[1]/h2/span
    concerts_elem = soup.select_one('#pageInfo > div:nth-child(1) > h2 > span')
    if concerts_elem:
        concerts_text = concerts_elem.get_text().strip()
        # Extract number from text like "5 concerts"
        concerts_match = re.search(r'(\d+)', concerts_text)
        if concerts_match:
            artist_info['concerts_count'] = int(concerts_match.group(1))
            print(f"  🎫 Concerts: {artist_info['concerts_count']}")
        else:
            artist_info['concerts_count'] = 0
            print("  🎫 Concerts: Count not found")
    else:
        artist_info['concerts_count'] = 0
        print("  🎫 Concerts: Element not found")
    
    return artist_info

5. Extracting Events List

Now extract the events list: date, time, location, venue, and links.

def extract_events_list(soup):
    """Extract events list from the page"""
    events = []
    
    # Find the events list container
    events_list = soup.find('ul', {'data-testid': 'eventList'})
    if not events_list:
        print("  ❌ Events list not found")
        return events
    
    # Find all event items
    event_items = events_list.find_all('li', class_='sc-a4c9d98c-1')
    print(f"  ✅ Found {len(event_items)} events")
    
    for item in event_items:
        try:
            event_data = {}
            
            # Extract event ID
            event_id = item.get('data-id', 'Unknown')
            event_data['id'] = event_id
            
            # Extract date information
            date_elem = item.find('span', class_='VisuallyHidden-sc-8buqks-0')
            if date_elem:
                date_text = date_elem.get_text().strip()
                event_data['date'] = date_text
            
            # Extract time information
            time_elem = item.find('span', class_='sc-5ae165d4-1')
            if time_elem:
                time_text = time_elem.get_text().strip()
                event_data['time'] = time_text
            
            # Extract location and venue
            location_elems = item.find_all('span', class_='sc-cce7ae2b-6')
            if len(location_elems) >= 2:
                event_data['location'] = location_elems[0].get_text().strip()
                event_data['venue'] = location_elems[1].get_text().strip()
            
            # Extract event name
            event_name_elem = item.find('span', class_='sc-cce7ae2b-6')
            if event_name_elem:
                event_data['name'] = event_name_elem.get_text().strip()
            
            # Extract ticket link
            ticket_link = item.find('a', {'data-testid': 'event-list-link'})
            if ticket_link:
                event_data['ticket_url'] = ticket_link.get('href', '')
            
            # Extract additional info (lineup, venue details)
            hidden_div = item.find('div', attrs={'hidden': ''})
            if hidden_div:
                # Extract lineup
                lineup_section = hidden_div.find('div', class_='sc-392cb4c2-0')
                if lineup_section:
                    lineup_title = lineup_section.find('p', class_='sc-392cb4c2-1')
                    if lineup_title and 'Lineup' in lineup_title.get_text():
                        lineup_links = lineup_section.find_all('a', class_='Link__StyledLink-sc-pudy0l-0')
                        event_data['lineup'] = [link.get_text().strip() for link in lineup_links]
                
                # Extract venue details
                venue_section = hidden_div.find_all('div', class_='sc-392cb4c2-0')
                for section in venue_section:
                    section_title = section.find('p', class_='sc-392cb4c2-1')
                    if section_title and 'Venue' in section_title.get_text():
                        venue_link = section.find('a', class_='Link__StyledLink-sc-pudy0l-0')
                        if venue_link:
                            event_data['venue_url'] = venue_link.get('href', '')
            
            events.append(event_data)
            print(f"    • {event_data.get('name', 'Unknown Event')} - {event_data.get('date', 'Unknown Date')} at {event_data.get('venue', 'Unknown Venue')}")
            
        except Exception as e:
            print(f"    ❌ Error processing event: {e}")
            continue
    
    return events

Main Scraping Function

Combine the steps into a single function for each artist page.

6. Putting It All Together

This function combines all the individual extraction methods into a comprehensive scraper that processes complete artist pages.

def scrape_artist_events(url):
    """Main function to scrape events for a specific artist"""
    print(f"\nScraping artist events: {url}")
    
    # Make request
    response = make_request(url)
    if not response:
        return None
    
    # Parse HTML content
    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')
    
    # Extract artist information
    artist_info = extract_artist_info(soup)
    
    # Extract events list
    events = extract_events_list(soup)
    
    # Combine all data
    result = {
        'artist_url': url,
        'artist_info': artist_info,
        'total_events': len(events),
        'events': events
    }
    
    return result

Running the Artist Scraper

Add a simple main to run it over the list of artists.

7. Main Execution

The main execution function manages the overall scraping workflow and handles multiple artist URLs.

def main():
    """Main execution function for artist scraping"""
    results = []
    
    for url in artist_urls:
        result = scrape_artist_events(url)
        if result:
            results.append(result)
    
    print(f"\n✅ Successfully scraped {len(results)} artists!")
    return results

# Run the artist scraper
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
Example Output - Artist Scraping

Scraping artist events: https://www.ticketmaster.com/imagine-dragons-tickets/artist/1435919
  ✅ Successfully accessed page
  🎤 Artist: Imagine Dragons Tickets
  🎵 Genre: Rock
  🎫 Concerts: 10
  ✅ Found 11 events
    • London, GB - 7/25/25 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
    • London, GB - 7/26/25 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
    • Unknown Event - Unknown Date at Unknown Venue
    • Ciudad de México, CDMX, MX - 9/5/25 at Estadio GNP Seguros
    • Ciudad de México, CDMX, MX - 9/7/25 at Estadio GNP Seguros
    • Lima, LIM, PE - 10/19/25 at Estadio San Marcos
    • Macul, RM, CL - 10/21/25 at Estadio Monumental David Arellano
    • Belo Horizonte, MG, BR - 10/26/25 at Estádio Mineirão
    • Brasilia, DF, BR - 10/29/25 at Arena BRB Mane Garrincha
    • São Paulo, SP, BR - 10/31/25 at Estádio MorumBis
    • São Paulo, SP, BR - 11/1/25 at Estádio MorumBis

✅ Successfully scraped 1 artist!

Scraping General Concert Listings

We'll also scrape the general discovery page, which lists upcoming concerts across locations.

8. General Concert URLs Configuration

Set the discovery URL:

# General concert URL to scrape
discover_url = "https://www.ticketmaster.com/discover/concerts"

9. Extracting General Concert Information

Extract the overall count, country label, and the events list with links.

def scrape_general_concerts():
    """Scrape general concert listings from Ticketmaster discover page"""
    print(f"\nScraping general concerts: {discover_url}")
    
    # Make request
    response = make_request(discover_url)
    if not response:
        return None
    
    # Parse HTML content
    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')
    
    # Extract number of concerts events
    concerts_count = 0
    concerts_elem = soup.select_one('#pageInfo > div:nth-child(1) > h2 > span')
    if concerts_elem:
        concerts_text = concerts_elem.get_text().strip()
        concerts_match = re.search(r'(\d+)', concerts_text)
        if concerts_match:
            concerts_count = int(concerts_match.group(1))
            print(f"  🎫 Total Concerts: {concerts_count}")
        else:
            print("  🎫 Concerts: Count not found")
    else:
        print("  🎫 Concerts: Element not found")
    
    # Extract country
    country = "Unknown"
    country_elem = soup.select_one('#pageInfo > div:nth-child(2) > div:nth-child(2) > div > div:nth-child(1) > h3')
    if country_elem:
        country = country_elem.get_text().strip()
        print(f"  🌍 Country: {country}")
    else:
        print("  🌍 Country: Not found")
    
    # Extract events list
    events = []
    events_list = soup.find('ul', {'data-testid': 'eventList'})
    if events_list:
        event_items = events_list.find_all('li', class_='sc-a4c9d98c-1')
        print(f"  ✅ Found {len(event_items)} events in list")
        
        for item in event_items:
            try:
                event_data = {}
                
                # Extract event ID
                event_id = item.get('data-id', 'Unknown')
                event_data['id'] = event_id
                
                # Extract date information
                date_elem = item.find('span', class_='VisuallyHidden-sc-8buqks-0')
                if date_elem:
                    date_text = date_elem.get_text().strip()
                    event_data['date'] = date_text
                
                # Extract time information
                time_elem = item.find('span', class_='sc-5ae165d4-1')
                if time_elem:
                    time_text = time_elem.get_text().strip()
                    event_data['time'] = time_text
                
                # Extract location and venue
                location_elems = item.find_all('span', class_='sc-cce7ae2b-6')
                if len(location_elems) >= 2:
                    event_data['location'] = location_elems[0].get_text().strip()
                    event_data['venue'] = location_elems[1].get_text().strip()
                
                # Extract event name
                event_name_elem = item.find('span', class_='sc-cce7ae2b-6')
                if event_name_elem:
                    event_data['name'] = event_name_elem.get_text().strip()
                
                # Extract ticket link
                ticket_link = item.find('a', {'data-testid': 'event-list-link'})
                if ticket_link:
                    event_data['ticket_url'] = ticket_link.get('href', '')
                
                # Extract additional info (lineup, venue details)
                hidden_div = item.find('div', attrs={'hidden': ''})
                if hidden_div:
                    # Extract lineup
                    lineup_section = hidden_div.find('div', class_='sc-392cb4c2-0')
                    if lineup_section:
                        lineup_title = lineup_section.find('p', class_='sc-392cb4c2-1')
                        if lineup_title and 'Lineup' in lineup_title.get_text():
                            lineup_links = lineup_section.find_all('a', class_='Link__StyledLink-sc-pudy0l-0')
                            event_data['lineup'] = [link.get_text().strip() for link in lineup_links]
                    
                    # Extract venue details
                    venue_section = hidden_div.find_all('div', class_='sc-392cb4c2-0')
                    for section in venue_section:
                        section_title = section.find('p', class_='sc-392cb4c2-1')
                        if section_title and 'Venue' in section_title.get_text():
                            venue_link = section.find('a', class_='Link__StyledLink-sc-pudy0l-0')
                            if venue_link:
                                event_data['venue_url'] = venue_link.get('href', '')
                
                events.append(event_data)
                print(f"    • {event_data.get('name', 'Unknown Event')} - {event_data.get('date', 'Unknown Date')} at {event_data.get('venue', 'Unknown Venue')}")
                
            except Exception as e:
                print(f"    ❌ Error processing event: {e}")
                continue
    else:
        print("  ❌ Events list not found")
    
    return {
        'discover_url': discover_url,
        'concerts_count': concerts_count,
        'country': country,
        'total_events': len(events),
        'events': events
    }

10. Running the General Concert Scraper

Now let's create a separate execution function for general concert scraping.

def run_general_concerts_scraper():
    """Main execution function for general concert scraping"""
    result = scrape_general_concerts()
    
    if result:
        print(f"\n✅ Successfully scraped general concerts!")
        print(f"📊 Total Concerts: {result['concerts_count']}")
        print(f"🌍 Country: {result['country']}")
        print(f"📋 Events Found: {result['total_events']}")
    
    return result

# Run the general concert scraper
if __name__ == "__main__":
    run_general_concerts_scraper()
Example Output - General Concerts

Scraping general concerts: https://www.ticketmaster.com/discover/concerts
  ✅ Successfully accessed page
  🎫 Total Concerts: 76172
  🌍 Country: United States
  ✅ Found 20 events in list
    • Hunny - 11/19/24 at Mesa, AZ
    • MJ LIVE Ticket + Hotel Deals - Open additional information for MJ LIVE Ticket + Hotel Deals Las Vegas, NV Harrah's Showroom at Harrah's Las Vegas 12/5/24, 8:00 PM at Las Vegas, NV
    • Ticket for you  + 1 for ALL 2025 shows! - 1/9/25 at Lafayette, LA
    • 3rd Thursday Tribute Series Ticket Pass - 1/16/25 at Lincoln, CA
    • Billy Joel & Sting - 4/11/25 at Syracuse, NY
    • Giacomo Turra - 4/24/25 at Houston, TX
    • Rod Stewart Ticket + Hotel Deals - Open additional information for Rod Stewart Ticket + Hotel Deals Las Vegas, NV The Colosseum at Caesars Palace 5/29/25, 10:00 AM at Las Vegas, NV
    • Atif Aslam - 5/31/25 at Frisco, TX
    • Jazzy Nights 2025 Season Pass - 6/4/25 at Detroit, MI
    • EXALTED Juneteenth Jazz & Gospel Festival - 6/19/25 at Baltimore, MD
    • Hombres G and Enanitos Verdes - Huevos Revueltos Tour - 6/26/25 at New York, NY
    • Doble R Entertainment Presents: Summer Take Off - 6/26/25 at Sacramento, CA
    • Kelly Clarkson Ticket + Hotel Deals - Open additional information for Kelly Clarkson Ticket + Hotel Deals Las Vegas, NV The Colosseum at Caesars Palace 7/4/25, 7:00 PM at Las Vegas, NV
    • Sunset @ The Stables- 2025 SEASON PASS - 7/11/25 at East Aurora, NY
    • Blues Jam | FREE w/ RSVP! - 7/23/25 at St. Louis, MO
    • CFD AFTER PARTY Ashley Wineland - 7/23/25 at Cheyenne, WY
    • Great South Bay Music Festival - 7/24/25 at Patchogue, NY
    • Ladies Night - 7/23/25 at Aurora, CO
    • Cayuga All-Stars - 7/23/25 at Dallas, TX
    • Headwaters Country Jam - 7/24/25 at Cardwell, MT

✅ Successfully scraped general concerts!
📊 Total Concerts: 76172
🌍 Country: United States
📋 Events Found: 20

Understanding the HTML Structure

Ticketmaster uses specific CSS classes and data attributes for event info. These are the selectors used here.

The key selectors we use for artist pages are:

  • h1 - Artist title (the only h1 on the page)
  • #main-content > div:nth-child(1) > div:nth-child(2) > div > div > div > p - Genre information
  • #pageInfo > div:nth-child(1) > h2 > span - Number of concerts
  • ul[data-testid="eventList"] - Events list container
  • li.sc-a4c9d98c-1 - Individual event items
  • span.VisuallyHidden-sc-8buqks-0 - Date information
  • span.sc-5ae165d4-1 - Time information
  • span.sc-cce7ae2b-6 - Location and venue information
  • a[data-testid="event-list-link"] - Ticket purchase links

For general concert pages:

  • #pageInfo > div:nth-child(1) > h2 > span - Number of concerts count
  • #pageInfo > div:nth-child(2) > div:nth-child(2) > div > div:nth-child(1) > h3 - Country information
  • ul[data-testid="eventList"] - Events list container
  • li.sc-a4c9d98c-1 - Individual event items
  • span.VisuallyHidden-sc-8buqks-0 - Date information
  • span.sc-5ae165d4-1 - Time information
  • span.sc-cce7ae2b-6 - Location and venue information
  • a[data-testid="event-list-link"] - Ticket purchase links
  • div[hidden] - Hidden sections with additional event details
  • div.sc-392cb4c2-0 - Lineup and venue detail sections
  • a.Link__StyledLink-sc-pudy0l-0 - Artist and venue links

These selectors tend to be stable, but expect occasional changes.

Handling Anti-Bot Protection

Ticketmaster has strong anti-bot checks. Here are a few basics to lower the chance of blocks.

1. User Agent Rotation

Rotate a few realistic user agents.

user_agents = [
    'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.2227.0 Safari/537.36',
    'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
    'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.3497.92 Safari/537.36',
    'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
]

session.headers.update({
    "User-Agent": random.choice(user_agents),
    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5"
})

2. Session Management

Keep a session to reuse cookies and connections.

session = requests.Session()
session.headers.update({
    "User-Agent": random.choice(user_agents),
    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
    "Connection": "keep-alive",
    "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1"
})

3. Rate Limiting and Delays

Add short random delays between requests.

def make_request(url):
    """Make a request to the Ticketmaster page with rate limiting"""
    try:
        # Add random delay to avoid rate limiting
        time.sleep(random.uniform(1, 3))
        
        response = session.get(url, timeout=15)
        
        if response.status_code == 403:
            print("  ❌ Blocked (403 Forbidden)")
            return None
        
        if response.status_code == 200:
            print("  ✅ Successfully accessed page")
            return response
        else:
            print(f"  ❌ Error: Status code {response.status_code}")
            return None
            
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"  ❌ Error: {e}")
        return None

For more advanced anti-blocking techniques, see

5 Tools to Scrape Without Blocking and How it All Works

Tutorial on how to avoid web scraper blocking. What is javascript and TLS (JA3) fingerprinting and what role request headers play in blocking.

5 Tools to Scrape Without Blocking and How it All Works

which covers TLS fingerprinting, IP rotation, and other detection methods.

Advanced Scraping Techniques

For larger runs, these help with reliability and scale.

1. Proxy Rotation

For large-scale scraping, use rotating proxies. This technique helps distribute requests across multiple IP addresses to avoid blocking.

proxies = {
    'http': 'http://proxy1:port',
    'https': 'https://proxy1:port'
}

response = session.get(url, proxies=proxies, timeout=15)

2. Data Storage

Save results to files for later analysis.

import json

def save_data(data, filename):
    """Save scraped data to JSON file"""
    with open(filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        json.dump(data, f, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)

# Collect data
scraped_data = []
for url in artist_urls:
    result = scrape_artist_events(url)
    if result:
        scraped_data.append(result)

# Save to file
save_data(scraped_data, 'ticketmaster_events.json')

3. Error Recovery

Add simple retry logic with backoff to handle flaky requests.

def make_request_with_retry(url, max_retries=3):
    """Make request with retry logic for better reliability"""
    for attempt in range(max_retries):
        try:
            response = make_request(url)
            if response:
                return response
            
            print(f"  ⚠️ Attempt {attempt + 1} failed, retrying...")
            time.sleep(random.uniform(2, 5))  # Longer delay between retries
            
        except Exception as e:
            print(f"  ❌ Error on attempt {attempt + 1}: {e}")
            if attempt < max_retries - 1:
                time.sleep(random.uniform(2, 5))
    
    print(f"  ❌ All {max_retries} attempts failed")
    return None

For more advanced data processing and analysis techniques, see our guide on

In this example web scraping project we'll be taking a look at monitoring E-Commerce trends using Python, web scraping and data visualization tools.

How to Observe E-Commerce Trends using Web Scraping

Scraping with Scrapfly

ScrapFly provides web scraping, screenshot, and extraction APIs for data collection at scale.


scrapfly middleware

If you want to skip proxy management and blocking issues, Scrapfly can handle that for you.

Here's how to use Scrapfly for Ticketmaster:

from scrapfly import ScrapflyClient, ScrapeConfig, ScrapeApiResponse

scrapfly = ScrapflyClient(key="YOUR-SCRAPFLY-KEY")

# Scrape artist events
result: ScrapeApiResponse = scrapfly.scrape(ScrapeConfig(
    tags=["ticketmaster", "artist-events"],
    format="json",
    asp=True,
    render_js=True,
    url="https://www.ticketmaster.com/imagine-dragons-tickets/artist/1435919"
))

print(result)

Best Practices and Tips

Quick tips:

  1. Respect robots.txt: Always check and follow the website's robots.txt file
  2. Implement delays: Use random delays between requests to avoid detection
  3. Handle errors gracefully: Implement proper error handling for network issues
  4. Monitor success rates: Track scraping success rates and adjust strategies accordingly
  5. Use proxies: Consider using rotating proxies for large-scale scraping
  6. Validate data: Always validate extracted data for completeness and accuracy

For more comprehensive web scraping best practices, see our

Everything to Know to Start Web Scraping in Python Today

Complete introduction to web scraping using Python: http, parsing, AI, scaling and deployment.

Everything to Know to Start Web Scraping in Python Today

More scraping guides:

  • Comprehensive guide to scraping Amazon product data

How to Scrape Amazon.com Product Data and Reviews

This scrape guide covers the biggest e-commerce platform in US - Amazon.com. We'll take a look how to scrape product data and reviews in Python, as well as some common challenges, tips and tricks.

How to Scrape Amazon.com Product Data and Reviews
  • Guide to extracting eBay listings and product information

How to Scrape Ebay Using Python (2025 Update)

In this scrape guide we'll be taking a look at Ebay.com - the biggest peer-to-peer e-commerce portal in the world. We'll be scraping product details and product search.

How to Scrape Ebay Using Python (2025 Update)
  • Techniques for scraping Walmart product pages

How to Scrape Walmart.com Product Data (2025 Update)

Tutorial on how to scrape walmart.com product and review data using Python. How to avoid blocking to web scrape data at scale and other tips.

How to Scrape Walmart.com Product Data (2025 Update)
  • Extracting product and review data from Etsy

How to Scrape Etsy.com Product, Shop and Search Data

In this scrapeguide we're taking a look at Etsy.com - a popular e-commerce market for hand crafted and vintage items. We'll be using Python and HTML parsing to scrape search and product data.

How to Scrape Etsy.com Product, Shop and Search Data

FAQ

Common questions:

What are the main challenges when scraping Ticketmaster?

Strong bot protection, dynamic content, and rate limiting. Expect 403s and selector changes.

How can I handle 403 Forbidden errors from Ticketmaster?

Rotate user agents, use a session, slow down requests, and use proxies. For production, Scrapfly handles this out of the box.

What data can I extract from Ticketmaster event pages?

Artist title, genre, show count; event name, date, time, location, venue; ticket link; lineup and venue details.

Summary

We covered how the site loads data, how to scrape artist and discovery pages, and how to avoid common blocks. Start simple with requests + BeautifulSoup, add delays and retries, and bring in proxies for scale. If you want fewer headaches, use Scrapfly.

Explore this Article with AI

Related Knowledgebase

Related Articles