Ticketmaster Price Tracker

Overview: A tool that allows you to search for events in your chosen city and saves price information in a .csv file so that you can track price changes. I developed this tool to get more experience with using APIs and creating GUIs.

How it Works: Users will need a Ticketmaster Discovery API key (available for free) and the name of a file to save price information to. Once the GUI is launched, users will be able to enter in the artist or event name and the city they want to search in. If an event is found, basic information will be displayed including a link to the event on Ticketmaster's site. Pricing info will be saved to the .csv file specified and previous searches will show on the screen as well. Searches can still take place with only one or even no search parameters, so populating the textboxes is optional.

Limitations: Originally, the issue I was trying to solve for is tracking the price of resale tickets, which is useful for sold out shows. Unfortunately, Ticketmaster's API does not include the price of resale tickets in its price ranges. Because of this, only the official min and max ticket prices are tracked. Additionally, there are some venues that don't give pricing ranges. For example, Showbox SODO in Seattle doesn't have pricing info for any of the events there, and so the tracker has limited value for those shows.
The API may return more than one event based on the search criteria, but the GUI only shows the first event. Future improvements for this tool could handle mutliple search results with the option of which ones to write to the file.