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Surfacing Event Data with the Ticketmaster APIs in JavaScript

Searching for Attractions

Explore how to search for attractions using Ticketmaster's Discovery API by making API calls with optional parameters like keyword and attraction ID. Learn to handle search results and navigate pages to retrieve relevant event attraction data.

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Attraction search

An attraction is the main person or act of interest in an event, be it a football team in a football match, a singer in a concert, or an actor in a stage play. The Discovery API provides us with the capability to search for and filter attractions through the attractions endpoint.

The URL for this endpoint is:

https://app.ticketmaster.com/discovery/v2/attractions

Request parameters

Like the event search endpoint, we can provide a number of optional parameters to filter the search results. An overview of some of the parameters is given below. You ...

Parameter

Type

Category

Description

id

string

optional

If provided, the search results are filtered by the attraction ID.

keyword

string

optional

This is a keyword on which the search is performed.

size

number

optional

This is the number of results to be returned per page. The default value is 20.

page

number

optional

This is the page number to be returned. The default value is 0.

sort

string

optional

This is the sorting order of the search results. Allowable values are, name,asc, name,desc, date,asc, date,desc, relevance,asc, relevance,desc, distance,asc, name,date,asc, name,date,desc, date,name,asc, date,name,desc, distance,date,asc, onSaleStartDate,asc, id,asc, venueName,asc, venueName,desc, random. The default value is relevance,desc.

classificationId

array[string]

optional

If provided, the search results are filtered by classification ID, that is, the ID of any segment, genre, subgenre, type, and subtype. Negative filtering is supported with this format: -. Negative filters may cause decreased performance.

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