Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the LotaData to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the LotaData, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Flotadata.com%2Flotadata-lotadata" | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Flotadata.com%2Flotadata-lotadata" | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with LotaData API.

Search event occurrences within a geographic area filtered by category, genre, and time window

Retrieve a single event's full record including venue, time, and category metadata

Search for places - venues, landmarks, and regions - within or near a geographic area

Look up a single place's record including geocoded coordinates and category

Filter event and place search results by hyper-local categories rather than generic POI types

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use LotaData API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Local discovery feature for travel apps

Travel apps surface a 'happening near you' feed by querying LotaData's /events endpoint with the user's coordinates and a short time window. Because LotaData indexes hyper-local categories rather than only large ticketed events, the feed shows farmers' markets, neighbourhood concerts, and pop-ups that ticket-vendor APIs miss. The 4-endpoint surface fits in a single backend job.

GET /events with bounding-box parameters around the user's location and a 7-day window, then fetch each high-priority event detail with GET /events/{id}.

Location enrichment for ad targeting

Ad-tech platforms use LotaData's place lookups to enrich impression coordinates with venue and category data - converting a raw lat/long into 'inside a stadium during a match' or 'near a farmers' market'. The /places search returns categorised records that feed audience segmentation rules without requiring a separate POI-and-events join.

GET /places filtered to a 200m radius around the impression coordinate, then GET /events for the same area and current timestamp to detect any active venue activity.

Smart-city dashboards

Smart-city teams pull LotaData event and place feeds into operational dashboards to forecast crowd density, transit demand, and emergency-services load. Because the API exposes hyper-local categories, the dashboard can distinguish a small community event from a major stadium fixture - driving different staffing decisions for the same district.

Schedule a job that queries GET /events for each city district every hour and writes the count and category breakdown to the dashboard's time-series store.

Agent-driven local recommendations via Jentic

An AI agent that helps users plan an evening calls LotaData through Jentic to find events and venues near a coordinate the user mentions in chat. The agent does not need to learn LotaData's specific category vocabulary - it asks Jentic for 'find events near a location' and gets back the right operation with its query parameters.

Use Jentic to search 'find events near a location', load GET /events, execute it with the user's parsed coordinates and a tonight time window, and summarise the top results.

Key Endpoints

4 endpoints — lotadata is a hyper-local events and places data provider whose api exposes geocoded event occurrences and place records (venues, landmarks, regions) across global and local categories.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/events

Search event occurrences in an area

GET

/events/{id}

Get a specific event's details

GET

/places

Search venues, landmarks, and regions

GET

/places/{id}

Get a specific place's details

GET

/events

Search event occurrences in an area

GET

/events/{id}

Get a specific event's details

GET

/places

Search venues, landmarks, and regions

GET

/places/{id}

Get a specific place's details

Why Jentic?

What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.

Setup

Wiring LotaData by hand means passing your api_key as a query parameter on every request against api2.lotadata.com, and shaping event and place lookup parameters yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import LotaData from the API Directory, store the key once, and your agent calls it.

Permission scoping

LotaData event and place lookups run against a shared directory rather than resources your account owns, so scoping is by operation: limit the agent to the operations it needs, such as searching events or fetching a single place, and leave out whichever lookup the agent does not use.

Credential isolation

Your LotaData API key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and appended as the query parameter at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'find events near a location' or 'look up a venue', and Jentic returns the matching LotaData operation with its query-parameter schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

FAQs

Specific to using LotaData API through Jentic.

What authentication does the LotaData API use?

LotaData uses an api_key sent as a query parameter (api_key=...). Through Jentic, the key is stored encrypted in the vault and Jentic appends it at execution time, so the raw key never appears in agent logs or chat context.

Can I search for events near a specific coordinate with LotaData?

Yes. GET /events accepts location and time-window parameters and returns matching event occurrences. Use Jentic search 'find events near a location' to load the operation and supply latitude, longitude, and the radius or bounding box.

What are the rate limits for the LotaData API?

LotaData enforces per-key request quotas tied to the subscription tier and returns HTTP 429 when exceeded. Jentic surfaces 429 responses unchanged so the agent can back off, and because the API has only 4 endpoints, quota tracking is straightforward to implement on the caller side.

How do I look up a specific event's full record through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'get lotadata event details', load GET /events/{id}, and execute it with the event ID. The response includes venue (resolvable via GET /places/{id}), time window, and the LotaData category.

Does the LotaData API include ticketing or pricing information?

No - LotaData returns event metadata (location, time, category) and place records, not ticket inventory or prices. Pair it with a ticketing API such as Ticketmaster or SeatGeek when the workflow needs purchase data.

How many endpoints does the LotaData API expose?

Four: list events, get event by ID, list places, get place by ID. The whole surface area can be discovered in a single Jentic operation search.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the LotaData API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which LotaData operations and credentials the agent may use, and because LotaData reads a shared directory rather than resources your account owns, scoping is done per operation. You can grant only the calls the agent actually needs, such as searching events with GET /events or fetching a single place with GET /places/{id}, while withholding the event or place lookups it never uses. The stored API key is appended only when the agent invokes an operation you have allowed, so an agent limited to event search cannot reach place records or any other endpoint.

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For Agents

Search and enrich geocoded event and place data from LotaData - find events near coordinates, fetch event details, and resolve venue or landmark records - across 4 query-parameter API-key endpoints.

Use for: Find concerts happening within 5km of a coordinate next weekend, Get the full details of a specific LotaData event, Search for venues and landmarks in a city centre, Retrieve the geocoded record for a known place ID

Not supported: Does not handle ticket purchase, ride-hailing, or routing between places - use for LotaData event search and place lookup only.

LotaData is a hyper-local events and places data provider whose API exposes geocoded event occurrences and place records (venues, landmarks, regions) across global and local categories. The 4 endpoints cover event search, single event lookup, place search, and single place lookup - designed to enrich apps that need 'what is happening near here' or 'what venue is at this location' data. Authentication uses an api_key passed as a query parameter.

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