Vivid Seats Scraper API
Capture live Vivid Seats ticket inventory without building or maintaining your own Vivid Seats scraper. Send a public vividseats.com event URL and receive current listings, pricing, fees, sections, rows, quantities, availability, and seat maps as structured JSON, captured live and never cached.
The API endpoint is https://api.tickets.dev/v1/capture/vividseats
Vivid Seats 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.
{
"status": "Loading example…"}Capture a Vivid Seats 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/vividseats |
import requests
endpoint = "https://api.tickets.dev/v1/capture/vividseats"
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 Vivid Seats event page URL to capture, from vividseats.com. Any country domain or subdomain of those works as well. The match is on the marketplace name, not the exact host. An event URL from a different marketplace returns 400 marketplace_mismatch. |
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 Vivid Seats event, trimmed to two listings. Every marketplace returns this same shape, so a parser written once works against all of them.
{
"source": "vividseats",
"eventId": "7256971",
"eventName": "The Eagles",
"performers": [
{
"performerId": "2533",
"name": "The Eagles",
"master": true
}
],
"venueId": "31696",
"venueName": "Sphere",
"venueAddress": "255 Sands Ave",
"venueCity": "Las Vegas",
"venueState": "NV",
"venueTimezone": "US/Pacific",
"eventDateLocal": "2026-12-11T20:30:00-08:00",
"eventDateUtc": "2026-12-12T04:30:00+00:00",
"sourceUrl": "https://www.vividseats.com/the-eagles-tickets-las-vegas-sphere-at-the-venetian-resort-12-11-2026--concerts-adult-contemporary/production/7256971",
"capturedAt": "2026-09-22T15:43:53.527576+00:00",
"currency": "USD",
"note": "",
"seatLevelUrl": "",
"sectionLevelUrl": "https://storage.tickets.dev/seatmaps/vividseats/section/7256971/1790091831.svg",
"stats": {
"listingCount": 813,
"ticketCount": 3645,
"getInPrice": 415,
"medianPrice": 708,
"avgPrice": 1107.99,
"maxPrice": 8644
},
"listings": [
{
"listingId": "VB17243775370",
"inventoryType": "resale",
"section": "110",
"row": "29",
"quantity": 2,
"ticketPrice": 305.18,
"fee": 109.82,
"totalPrice": 415,
"ticketType": "Ticketmaster Transfer",
"sellableQuantities": "2",
"group": "100 Level",
"seats": "",
"dealScore": "9.7",
"listingNotes": "Limited view. Please note that you will need to use an iOS or Android mobile device to gain entry to your event."
},
{
"listingId": "VB17189782002",
"inventoryType": "resale",
"section": "101",
"row": "34",
"quantity": 2,
"ticketPrice": 308.1,
"fee": 110.9,
"totalPrice": 419,
"ticketType": "Ticketmaster Transfer",
"sellableQuantities": "2",
"group": "100 Level",
"seats": "6,7",
"dealScore": "9.3",
"listingNotes": "Obstructed View Limited view of Sphere screen - Full View of Band and Stage XFER Please note that you will need to use an iOS or Android mobile device to gain entry to your event."
}
// …811 more listings
],
"venueLayout": {
"level": "row",
"sections": [
{
"section": "Lower Suite 1",
"group": "Suites",
"ga": false,
"rows": []
}
// …66 more sections
]
}
}Real-time Vivid Seats 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.
Vivid Seats API questions
What does the Vivid Seats API return?
One normalized snapshot of the event as it looks right now: every listing with its section, row, quantity, ticket price, fee 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 listings.
Why use a Vivid Seats 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 Vivid Seats URLs does it accept?
Any public event page URL from vividseats.com. Country domains and subdomains work as well. The match is on the marketplace, not the exact host.
Is the Vivid Seats data live or cached?
Live. Each call opens the event page and reads its current listings and prices. There is no crawl schedule to wait on and no cached row to go stale.
Does Vivid Seats 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 Vivid Seats works unchanged against Ticketmaster, StubHub, SeatGeek, TickPick, Gametime, Viagogo, GoTickets, Paciolan, ATG Tickets, ProVenue and GoFevo.
How is the Vivid Seats 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?
To the row. Ask for venue maps and venueLayout carries the venue map as data: every section and row, named the way the listings and the maps name them.
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, Gametime API, Viagogo API, GoTickets API, Paciolan API, ATG Tickets API, ProVenue API, and GoFevo API. 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.