Add Bandsintown tour dates from a spreadsheet

1. In the Bandsintown for Artists dashboard, open Events and click Add Event, then pick Single-Page Mode or Multi-Step Mode for each date.
2. In the Location section of the Bandsintown event form, choose Venue and search the drop-down; a venue that is not listed needs Add a Custom Location and Submit.
3. For a whole tour, Bandsintown offers Upload Events on the Home or Events page: download its template spreadsheet, retype your dates into its columns and upload the file.
4. Bandsintown publishes uploaded events to the artist page within a few minutes, which does not suit a tour that is still under embargo.
5. Before or after either route, compare the list on the Events page with shows Bandsintown already imported from ticketing partners, agents and venues. Duplicates and wrong venues are easy to miss when a tour has 20 rows.

Add the 12 dates in tour.csv to our Bandsintown page as drafts with their ticket links. Skip any show Bandsintown already imported from Ticketmaster or the venue, and list the venues you could not match.

1. 01

   Read the sheet and normalize each row

   The agent reads date, city, venue and ticket URL from your file, whatever the column names. Show times are kept in the venue's local time; a row without a time is flagged rather than given a made-up doors time.

2. 02

   Look for shows that are already there

   Before creating anything, list_events with status all covers the tour window. A row whose date and city match an existing event, often one imported from a ticketing partner, is skipped and reported, so fans do not see the same show twice.

3. 03

   Match every venue

   search_venues runs with the venue name and city. One clear match is attached. Several close matches (two rooms in the same building, a club and its upstairs bar) stop that row for your choice. With no match, the agent uses a custom location with name, city and country instead of leaving the place blank.

4. 04

   Check ticket links before saving

   Bandsintown only accepts a link to the event's own purchase page. Links to a tour page, a venue homepage or a sign-up form are left off and listed for you, and the first valid link per show is labeled Tickets.

5. 05

   Save drafts, then hand over

   create_event saves each remaining row as a draft. The agent reports drafts created, rows skipped and why. Publishing waits for you, or for a publish_event call you approve with a time and the Notify my Followers choice.

tour.csv: 12 rows read.
9 drafts created, earliest Leeds, Brudenell Social Club, 14 Nov 2026 20:00.
2 skipped: Manchester 15 Nov and Glasgow 18 Nov are already on the page (imported from Ticketmaster).
1 needs you: "The Lexington" in London matches two venues. Pick one.
Ticket link left off for Bristol 20 Nov: it points to the venue's listings page, not the purchase page.
Nothing is public yet.

• Bandsintown's Upload Events publishes new events to the artist page within a few minutes, while the Add Event form offers Save as a Draft, Schedule to Publish and Publish.
• Bandsintown rejects a ticket link that does not go to the event's own purchase page; in a bulk upload the event is created as a draft without that link and the row is flagged in the upload summary.
• Bandsintown imports events from ticketing platforms such as Ticketmaster, AXS, Eventbrite and See Tickets, plus agencies, promoters and venues, and publishes them unless Auto-Publish Imported Events is off in Settings.
• Bandsintown's Schedule to Publish needs a time at least 4 hours from now and at least 15 minutes before the show starts.
• Events without a complete location are left out of Bandsintown's recommendations, and a lineup artist must have a Bandsintown page and add the date to their own page separately.

create_event changes only your own Bandsintown data and reach no one else, so it runs without asking first.

Sources: Bandsintown help: Add multiple events at once · Bandsintown help: Add an event · Bandsintown help: Choosing the right ticket link · Bandsintown help: Imported events · Bandsintown help: Schedule an event for publication

curl https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/bandsintown/create_event \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"starts_at":"2026-11-14T20:00:00+00:00","venue_id":"v_118302","ticket_links":[{"url":"https://tickets.example.com/yourband-leeds","type":"tickets"}]}'

{
  "event_id": "1037728455",
  "status": "draft",
  "starts_at": "2026-11-14T20:00:00+00:00",
  "venue": {
    "name": "Brudenell Social Club",
    "city": "Leeds",
    "country": "United Kingdom"
  },
  "ticket_links": [
    {
      "url": "https://tickets.example.com/yourband-leeds",
      "type": "tickets"
    }
  ],
  "url": null
}

MCP: add https://cotlet.dev/mcp/v1 with the same key; the tool is bandsintown_create_event. Example data.

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