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Programmatically get artist's upcoming events, search for events. Covers 2 operations with apiKey authentication.
Use for: I need to artist's upcoming events, I want to for events, Get the current status of Songkick API resources, List all records from Songkick API
Not supported: Does not handle payments, communications, or crm - use for analytics only.
The Songkick API provides easy access to the biggest live music database in the world with over 6 million upcoming and past concerts. Search for events by artist, date, venue, and location, access user's events and trackings, complete concert history for artists (gigography), event details, venue details, similar artists, and more. The API exposes 2 endpoints secured with apiKey authentication.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the Songkick API to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Songkick API, 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.
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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%2Fsongkick.com%2Fsongkick-api" | sh2
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%2Fsongkick.com%2Fsongkick-api" | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic 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 Songkick API.
Get artist's upcoming events
Search for events
Integrate Songkick API into automated workflows
Query and filter Songkick API records by parameters
Monitor Songkick API operational status and events
Use Cases
Patterns agents use Songkick API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Analytics Operations
Use the Songkick API to perform analytics operations programmatically. The API provides 2 endpoints covering core functionality including get artist's upcoming events, search for events.
Call GET /artists/{artist_id}/calendar.json to get artist's upcoming events
Data Retrieval and Monitoring
Query Songkick API resources on a schedule to track changes, generate alerts, or feed downstream dashboards. Agents poll relevant endpoints, compare against previous state, and trigger actions when thresholds are crossed.
Poll the primary Songkick API endpoint, compare response to last known state, and alert if changed
AI Agent Integration via Jentic
AI agents discover and call Songkick API endpoints through Jentic without managing credentials directly. An agent searches for the required operation by intent, receives the matching endpoint schema, and executes the call with Jentic-managed authentication. This eliminates the need to read API documentation or handle apiKey tokens manually.
Search Jentic for 'get artist's upcoming events', load the operation schema, and execute with Jentic-managed credentials
Key Endpoints
2 endpoints — the songkick api provides easy access to the biggest live music database in the world with over 6 million upcoming and past concerts.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
GET
/artists/{artist_id}/calendar.json
Get artist's upcoming events
GET
/events.json
Search for events
GET
/artists/{artist_id}/calendar.json
Get artist's upcoming events
GET
/events.json
Search for events
Jentic AI Readiness Score
This API is usable in Jentic One now. Its AI-readiness score against Jentic's framework shows where it stands today and where improvements would make it even easier for agents to use.
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Songkick API
- Foundational (D+)47/100
87
Foundational Compliance56
Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility48
AI-Readiness & Agent Experience94
Agent Usability15
Security100
AI DiscoverabilityPowered by JenticScoring Framework 1.0.0 | Scoring Engine 0.4.0
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87
Foundational Compliance
Base layer of spec validity and structural soundness.
Grade: ASignals: 4
99%
Lint Results
Aggregated quality score from linter diagnostics, weighted by severity.
100%
Resolution Completeness
Percentage of `$ref` references that resolve successfully.
100%
Specification Validity
Checks whether the API description parses successfully and conforms to its declared specification (e.g., OpenAPI).
50%
Structural Integrity
Structural correctness score based on schema issues using logarithmic dampening.
56
Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility
Clarity, completeness, and ingestion readiness for developers and tooling.
Grade: CSignals: 4
0%
Example Density
How richly the API is illustrated with examples.
100%
Example Validity
Percentage of examples that conform to their schemas.
25%
Response Coverage
Percentage of operations with complete response definitions (success, client error, server error).
100%
Tooling Readiness
Health of API ingestion, bundling, and resolution within Jentic pipelines.
48
AI-Readiness & Agent Experience
Semantic breadth, depth, and agent comprehension for AI systems.
Grade: D+Signals: 4
41%
Description Coverage
Coverage of descriptions across API elements.
0%
Error Standardization
Coverage of RFC 9457 Problem Details for error responses.
100%
OperationId Quality
Coverage, uniqueness, and casing consistency of operationIds for AI inference.
50%
Summary Coverage
Coverage of summaries across operations/tags/info.
94
Agent Usability
Functional utility, complexity comfort, and AI orchestration readiness.
Grade: A+Signals: 1
94%
Complexity Comfort
Agent comfort level based on API operational and structural complexity.
15
Security
Trust, risk posture, and security compliance.
Grade: FSignals: 1
15%
Authentication Strength
Average quality of security schemes based on authentication method strength (weakest link for OAuth2).
100
AI Discoverability
Findability, semantic richness, and reasoning readiness.
Grade: A+Signals: 1
100%
Descriptive Richness
Clarity and depth of descriptions across API elements.
Score it yourself
Every API in the directory is allowlisted, so you can re-score it with no key required.
npx @jentic/api-scorecard-cli score <openapi-url>Why Jentic?
What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.
Setup
Wiring the Songkick API by hand means appending its apikey query parameter on every call, pointing at the api.songkick.com/api/3.0 host, and handling paging and retries yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import the Songkick API from the API Directory, store the API key once, and your agent calls it.
Permission scoping
The Songkick API puts the artist id in the URL path (/artists/{artist_id}/calendar.json), so a rule can pin your agent to one artist's upcoming calendar. Every endpoint here is read-only, and you choose which operations are in the allowed set, so anything you do not add stays out of reach.
Credential isolation
Your Songkick API key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'get an artist's upcoming events' or 'search events', and Jentic returns the matching Songkick API operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using Songkick API through Jentic.
What authentication does the Songkick API use?
The Songkick API uses an API key passed in the `apikey` query. Through Jentic, these credentials are stored encrypted in your Jentic One instance and injected at execution time, so raw secrets never enter the agent context.
Can I get artist's upcoming events with the Songkick API?
Yes. Use the GET /artists/{artist_id}/calendar.json endpoint. The API returns structured JSON responses that agents can parse and act on directly.
What are the rate limits for the Songkick API?
Rate limits are not specified in the OpenAPI spec. Check the vendor documentation for current limits. Through Jentic, rate limiting is handled automatically with retry logic built into the execution layer.
How do I get artist's upcoming events through Jentic?
Install the Jentic SDK with pip install jentic, authenticate through Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer, then search for 'get artist's upcoming events'. Jentic returns the matching Songkick API operation with its input schema. Load the schema and execute the call - credentials are injected automatically.
How many endpoints does the Songkick API have?
The Songkick API exposes 2 endpoints covering events operations.
Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Songkick API?
Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which Songkick operations the agent may call, so you can allow just GET /artists/{artist_id}/calendar.json or GET /events.json and leave everything else out of reach. Since the artist id sits in the URL path, a rule can pin the agent to one artist's upcoming calendar rather than the whole catalogue. Both endpoints are read-only, and the stored API key is injected at execution time, so the agent can only fetch the event data you have permitted.
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