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Surfacing Event Data with the Ticketmaster APIs in JavaScript

Segments, Genres, and Subgenres

Explore how to retrieve and understand segments genres and subgenres using Ticketmaster's Discovery API. Learn to call API endpoints to fetch detailed classification data essential for event and attraction categorization and integration.

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Segment details

Segments are top-level classifications alongside types. They represent the primary genre of entities such as events and attractions. Some examples of segments include sports, music, and film.

The Discovery API offers a segments endpoint that we can use to fetch details for a particular segment. The diagram below gives an overview of this endpoint:

The URL for this endpoint is as follows:

https://app.ticketmaster.com/discovery/v2/classifications/segments/{id}

Here, {id} is the ID of the segment we want to fetch the details for.

Request parameters

Apart from the id URL parameter, we can provide a couple of optional query parameters as well. The table below gives an overview of all these parameters:

Parameter

Type

Category

Description

id

string

required

This is the ID of the segment we want the details for.

locale

string

optional

This is the locale in ISO code format. Multiple comma-separated values can be provided. When omitting the country part of the code (only en or fr) the first matching locale is used. When using *, it matches all locales. The default value is en.

domain

array[string]

optional

If provided, the results are filtered on the domain they are available on.

Let's make a call to this endpoint using the segment IDs in the table below:

Segment

ID

Sports

KZFzniwnSyZfZ7v7nE

Music

KZFzniwnSyZfZ7v7nJ

Arts & Theater

KZFzniwnSyZfZ7v7na

Film

KZFzniwnSyZfZ7v7nn

You can try to replace the value of the segmentId variable on line 3 with an ID from the table above to fetch details for that specific segment:

Javascript (babel-node)
import fetch from "node-fetch";



const segmentId = "KZFzniwnSyZfZ7v7nE";



const endpointUrl = new URL(`https://app.ticketmaster.com/discovery/v2/classifications/segments/${segmentId}`);



const queryParameters = new URLSearchParams({

  apikey: "{{API_KEY}}",

});



const options = {

  method: "GET",

};



async function getSegmentDetails() {

  try {

    endpointUrl.search = queryParameters;

    const response = await fetch(endpointUrl, options);

    printResponse(response);

  } catch (error) {

    printError(error);

  }

}



getSegmentDetails();

In the code above we implement these actions:

  • Line 3: We define a variable segmentId to store the ID of a segment.

  • Line 5: We define the URL for the ...