The Ticketmaster API: what it returns
What the Ticketmaster Discovery API returns, its call limits and its price fields, and what you need beyond it to read resale prices by section.
Sample prices as of Nov 7, 2026
Ticketmaster's public API for event data is the Discovery API. It returns events, attractions, venues and classifications, plus search suggestions. Each request carries an API key from a Ticketmaster developer account. Its documentation sets a default quota of 5,000 calls a day and 5 requests a second, and stops deep paging at the 1,000th item.
Prices in the Discovery API
An event object can carry a priceRanges array with a minimum and maximum price for a price type. The documentation lists no resale listings, no seats on sale by section and no seats taken. For those you need a dataset that reads the market itself.
Ticketmaster in a joined dataset
Ticker reads Ticketmaster on both sides. The primary side (13 columns) carries face prices and the seats still on sale. The resale side (8 columns) carries resale prices inside Ticketmaster. In the sample as of Nov 7, 2026, 73 of 99 events had a primary reading and 71 had a resale reading.
| Event | Primary get-in, all-in | Lowest face, before fees | Highest face, before fees | Primary taken |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Rockets at Los Angeles Lakers | $169 | $138 | $9,200 | 96% |
| Philadelphia Eagles at San Francisco 49ers | $313 | $261 | $5,000 | 99% |
| The Eagles | $325 | $244 | $2,758 | 94% |
Questions
- Does Ticketmaster have an API?
- Yes. The Discovery API returns events, attractions, venues and classifications with an API key. Its documentation sets a default quota of 5,000 calls a day and 5 requests a second.
- Does the Ticketmaster API return resale prices?
- The Discovery API documentation lists a price range per event but no resale listings or section inventory.
Read Ticketmaster and resale prices through one API with Ticker.