Capture live Broadway Direct box-office inventory without building or maintaining your own Broadway Direct scraper. Send a public tickets.broadwaydirect.com performance link, the page a buyer picks seats on at a Nederlander theatre, and receive open seats, published prices with the online fee broken out, sections, rows, seat numbers, accessible seating, and the theatre's section and seat maps as structured JSON.

The API endpoint is https://api.tickets.dev/v1/capture/broadwaydirect

Broadway Direct scraper API for live inventory

Each request captures current listing-level inventory with sections, rows, quantities, prices, fees, and optional seat maps in the same normalized JSON used across every marketplace.

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JSON response

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Capture a Broadway Direct event

Submit a public event page URL. The request runs the capture and returns one normalized snapshot when it completes.

Method	Endpoint
GET	`/v1/capture/broadwaydirect`

Code to integrate

import requests

endpoint = "https://api.tickets.dev/v1/capture/broadwaydirect"
response = requests.get(
    endpoint,
    params={"eventUrl": event_url},
    headers={"x-api-key": api_key},
)
snapshot = response.json()

Query parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
`eventUrl`	string required	A public Broadway Direct event page URL to capture, from `tickets.broadwaydirect.com`. Any country domain or subdomain of those works as well. The match is on the marketplace name, not the exact host. A URL from any other host returns `400 marketplace_mismatch` without running a capture.
`includeVenueMaps`	boolean optional	Render the venue maps for this capture and host them, filling `sectionLevelUrl` and `seatLevelUrl`, and fill `venueLayout` with the sections, rows and seats of the venue. Off by default, because the maps add render and upload time to a request most callers make for pricing alone, so the URLs come back as empty strings and `venueLayout` at level `none` unless you pass `true`.
`apiKey`	string optional	Your API key, when you send it in the query string rather than the `x-api-key` header. Either is accepted, and the key is required one way or the other. Keep it server-side. It carries your full quota. The public sandbox key `tk_test_sandbox` hits the same URL and returns fixture snapshots without spending a capture.

Example response

One capture of a real Broadway Direct event, trimmed to two listings. Every marketplace returns this same shape, so a parser written once works against all of them.

{
  "source": "broadwaydirect",
  "eventId": "1917046",
  "eventName": "MJ",
  "performers": [
    {
      "performerId": "658436",
      "name": "MJ",
      "master": true
    }
  ],
  "venueId": "2535",
  "venueName": "Neil Simon Theatre",
  "venueAddress": "250 W 52nd St",
  "venueCity": "New York",
  "venueState": "NY",
  "venueTimezone": "America/New_York",
  "eventDateLocal": "2026-11-08T15:00:00-05:00",
  "eventDateUtc": "2026-11-08T20:00:00+00:00",
  "sourceUrl": "https://tickets.broadwaydirect.com/shop/tickets/series/658436/mj-1917046",
  "capturedAt": "2026-10-23T21:51:02.579981+00:00",
  "currency": "USD",
  "note": "",
  "seatLevelUrl": "https://storage.tickets.dev/seatmaps/broadwaydirect/seat/1917046/1792792262.svg",
  "sectionLevelUrl": "https://storage.tickets.dev/seatmaps/broadwaydirect/section/1917046/1792792262.svg",
  "stats": {
    "listingCount": 123,
    "ticketCount": 486,
    "getInPrice": 119,
    "medianPrice": 229,
    "avgPrice": 233.72,
    "maxPrice": 319
  },
  "listings": [
    {
      "listingId": "",
      "inventoryType": "primary",
      "section": "MEZZ",
      "row": "T",
      "quantity": 1,
      "ticketPrice": 107.25,
      "fee": 11.75,
      "totalPrice": 119,
      "ticketType": "Standard",
      "sellableQuantities": "1",
      "group": "Mezz R-U Sides",
      "seats": "11",
      "listingNotes": "",
      "dealScore": ""
    },
    {
      "listingId": "",
      "inventoryType": "primary",
      "section": "MEZZ",
      "row": "U",
      "quantity": 1,
      "ticketPrice": 107.25,
      "fee": 11.75,
      "totalPrice": 119,
      "ticketType": "Standard",
      "sellableQuantities": "1",
      "group": "Mezz R-U Sides",
      "seats": "2",
      "listingNotes": "",
      "dealScore": ""
    }
    // …121 more listings
  ],
  "venueLayout": {
    "level": "seat",
    "capacity": 1387,
    "sections": [
      {
        "section": "FMEZZ",
        "group": "",
        "ga": false,
        "capacity": 334,
        "rows": [
          {
            "row": "A",
            "capacity": 38,
            "seats": "11,9,7,5,3,1,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,2,4,6,8,10,12"
          },
          {
            "row": "B",
            "capacity": 38,
            "seats": "11,9,7,5,3,1,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,2,4,6,8,10,12"
          }
          // …8 more rows
        ]
      }
      // …4 more sections
    ]
  }
}

Every field is described in the API reference and in the OpenAPI 3.1 spec, which Postman, client generators and coding agents can read directly.

Real-time Broadway Direct pricing and availability

Store successive captures to monitor new and removed listings, price changes, fee changes, quantity movement, and inventory depth over time. The ticket price API guide covers all-in comparison, price alerts, resale analytics, and dynamic pricing workflows.

For working code, see how to track ticket prices across marketplaces for scheduled captures and price history, and how to build price and inventory alerts for notifications when listings change.

Broadway Direct API questions

What does the Broadway Direct API return?

One normalized snapshot of the event as it looks right now: every open seat with its section, row, seat number, published price and all-in total, plus event and venue details. Ask for venue maps and the same response carries hosted section and seat level map images tied to those seats.

Why use a Broadway Direct scraper API?

Catalog and partner APIs often focus on events, performers, or seller workflows. Tickets.dev captures the inventory visible on a public event page, including current listings, buyer-facing prices, fees, quantities, locations, and availability. It also removes the browser fleet, parsers, network routing, retries, and marketplace page maintenance involved in operating a production scraper.

Which Broadway Direct URLs does it accept?

Any public event page URL from tickets.broadwaydirect.com. Country domains and subdomains work as well. The match is on the marketplace, not the exact host.

Is the Broadway Direct data live or cached?

Live. Each call opens the event page and reads its current seat availability and prices. There is no crawl schedule to wait on and no cached row to go stale.

Does Broadway Direct use the same response shape as the other marketplaces?

Yes. Every Tickets.dev marketplace API returns the identical snapshot schema, so a parser written against Broadway Direct works unchanged against Ticketmaster, StubHub, SeatGeek, TickPick, Vivid Seats, Gametime, Viagogo, GoTickets, Paciolan, ATG Tickets, ProVenue, GoFevo, Spotlight.Vegas, Vegas.com, Cirque du Soleil and Telecharge.

How is the Broadway Direct API priced?

Per completed capture, starting at $0.050 each on the Starter plan. Failed requests are never charged, and every plan includes every marketplace and live seat maps.

Does the response include the venue's seating chart and capacity?

Yes. Ask for venue maps and venueLayout carries the venue map as data: every section, row and seat, with capacities counted from the seats. Names match the listings and the maps, so a listing binds to its row and seats without a lookup table.

Are there any restrictions on how I can use the data?

No. A capture only reads public data: the listings, prices, fees and seat maps the marketplace shows any visitor on its event page, with no login. Tickets.dev puts no license terms on what a capture returns. Store it, analyze it, build products on it and show it to your own users, with no attribution required.

Other marketplace APIs

The same endpoint shape and the same response schema cover every marketplace we support: Ticketmaster API, StubHub API, SeatGeek API, TickPick API, Vivid Seats API, Gametime API, Viagogo API, GoTickets API, Paciolan API, ATG Tickets API, ProVenue API, GoFevo API, Spotlight.Vegas API, Vegas.com API, Cirque du Soleil API, and Telecharge API. To line up one event across several of them, follow our ticket price comparison guide. Start with the ticket scraping API, explore live ticket inventory, real-time ticket pricing and seat maps, see every ticket marketplace API, check per-capture pricing, or talk to us about volume.