Proof of Concept task to get ticket prices and event info using StubHub's API with Python

calling_stubhub_api.py

# Quick intro to accessing Stubhub API with Python
# Ozzie Liu (ozzie@ozzieliu.com)
# Related blog post: http://ozzieliu.com/2016/06/21/scraping-ticket-data-with-stubhub-api/
# Updated 3/5/2017 for Python 3 and Stubhub's InventorySearchAPI - v2

import requests
import base64
import json
import pprint
import pandas as pd
import datetime

#### Step 1: # Obtaining StubHub User Access Token ####

## Enter user's API key, secret, and Stubhub login
app_token = input('Enter app token: ')
consumer_key = input('Enter consumer key: ')
consumer_secret = input('Enter consumer secret: ')
stubhub_username = input('Enter Stubhub username (email): ')
stubhub_password = input('Enter Stubhub password: ')

## Generating basic authorization token
combo = consumer_key + ':' + consumer_secret
basic_authorization_token = base64.b64encode(combo.encode('utf-8'))
# print(basic_authorization_token)

## POST parameters for API call
headers = {
        'Content-Type':'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        'Authorization':'Basic '+basic_authorization_token.decode('utf-8'),}
body = {
        'grant_type':'password',
        'username':stubhub_username,
        'password':stubhub_password,
        'scope':'PRODUCTION'}
## Making the call
url = 'https://api.stubhub.com/login'
r = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=body)
token_respoonse = r.json()
access_token = token_respoonse['access_token']
user_GUID = r.headers['X-StubHub-User-GUID']

#### Step 2 - Searching inventory for an event ####
inventory_url = 'https://api.stubhub.com/search/inventory/v2'

headers['Authorization'] = 'Bearer ' + access_token
headers['Accept'] = 'application/json'
headers['Accept-Encoding'] = 'application/json'

## Enter event ID
eventid = '9837052'
data = {'eventid':eventid}

## GET request and change to Pandas dataframe
inventory = requests.get(inventory_url, headers=headers, params=data)
inv = inventory.json()

listing_df = pd.DataFrame(inv['listing'])

## Getting ticket prices out of the currentPice column of dicts - assuming they're all in USD
listing_df['amount'] = listing_df.apply(lambda x: x['currentPrice']['amount'], axis=1)

## Export to a csv file
listing_df.to_csv('tickets_listing.csv', index=False)

#### Step 3 - Adding Event and Venue Info ####

## Calling the eventsearch api
info_url = 'https://api.stubhub.com/catalog/events/v2/' + eventid
info = requests.get(info_url, headers=headers)

# pprint.pprint(info.json())

info_dict = info.json()
event_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(info_dict['eventDateLocal'][:10], '%Y-%m-%d')

event_name = info_dict['title']
event_date = info_dict['eventDateLocal'][:10]
venue = info_dict['venue']['name']

snapshot_date = datetime.datetime.today().strftime('%m/%d/%Y')

listing_df['snapshotDate'] = snapshot_date
listing_df['eventName'] = event_name
listing_df['eventDate'] = event_date
listing_df['venue'] = venue

my_col = ['snapshotDate','eventName','eventDate', 'venue', 'sectionName', 'row',
          'seatNumbers', 'quantity', 'deliveryTypeList', 'amount']

final_df = listing_df[my_col]

## Exporting final report
final_df.to_csv('tickets_listing_with_info.csv', index=False)

@tsofoon have you actually gotten the access token yet? Fixed my issue by just using https://cryptii.com/pipes/text-to-base64 instead of the Python function to encode the concatenated keys, the outputs were wildly different (no clue why), and then just using the GUI at https://developer.stubhub.com/oauth/apis/post/accesstoken to get the token, worked like a charm, no 401 response. Also, make sure you're sending StubHub.com credentials and not credentials for you StubHub developer account.

If you've already done this and have your access token, then just disregard this, figured it might be useful.

Hi, I still have issues connecting. I have consumer key, consumer secret, using user stubhub account (not dev). Convert to base64. I'm able to generate access_token manually using the webpage https://developer.stubhub.com/oauth/apis/post/accesstoken, but not from python. Already tried switching grant_type client_credentials or password, url, everything. I even tried by-passing step 1 and manually entered access_token in step 2.

Here's the original code:

POST parameters for API call

headers = {
'Content-Type':'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'Authorization':'Basic '+basic_authorization_token.decode('utf-8'),}
body = {
'grant_type':'password',
'username':stubhub_username,
'password':stubhub_password,
'scope':'PRODUCTION'}

Making the call

url = 'https://api.stubhub.com/login'
r = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=body)
token_respoonse = r.json()

Many thanks, warm regards

@tsofoon have you actually gotten the access token yet? Fixed my issue by just using https://cryptii.com/pipes/text-to-base64 instead of the Python function to encode the concatenated keys, the outputs were wildly different (no clue why), and then just using the GUI at https://developer.stubhub.com/oauth/apis/post/accesstoken to get the token, worked like a charm, no 401 response. Also, make sure you're sending StubHub.com credentials and not credentials for you StubHub developer account.
If you've already done this and have your access token, then just disregard this, figured it might be useful.

Hi, I still have issues connecting. I have consumer key, consumer secret, using user stubhub account (not dev). Convert to base64. I'm able to generate access_token manually using the webpage https://developer.stubhub.com/oauth/apis/post/accesstoken, but not from python. Already tried switching grant_type client_credentials or password, url, everything. I even tried by-passing step 1 and manually entered access_token in step 2.

Here's the original code:

POST parameters for API call

headers = {
'Content-Type':'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'Authorization':'Basic '+basic_authorization_token.decode('utf-8'),}
body = {
'grant_type':'password',
'username':stubhub_username,
'password':stubhub_password,
'scope':'PRODUCTION'}

Making the call

url = 'https://api.stubhub.com/login'
r = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=body)
token_respoonse = r.json()

Many thanks, warm regards

I am in the same boat here... Any help appreciated

Thanks! was able to connect to get events, but to get tickets now stubhub is charging fees, so I'm switching to web scrapping. Many thanks!!! really appreciate it

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On Fri, Apr 9, 2021, 11:49 PM rcarmody09 ***@***.***> wrote: ***@***.**** commented on this gist. ------------------------------ @tsofoon <https://github.com/tsofoon> have you actually gotten the access token yet? Fixed my issue by just using https://cryptii.com/pipes/text-to-base64 instead of the Python function to encode the concatenated keys, the outputs were wildly different (no clue why), and then just using the GUI at https://developer.stubhub.com/oauth/apis/post/accesstoken to get the token, worked like a charm, no 401 response. Also, make sure you're sending StubHub.com credentials and not credentials for you StubHub developer account. If you've already done this and have your access token, then just disregard this, figured it might be useful. Hi, I still have issues connecting. I have consumer key, consumer secret, using user stubhub account (not dev). Convert to base64. I'm able to generate access_token manually using the webpage https://developer.stubhub.com/oauth/apis/post/accesstoken, but not from python. Already tried switching grant_type client_credentials or password, url, everything. I even tried by-passing step 1 and manually entered access_token in step 2. Here's the original code: POST parameters for API call headers = { 'Content-Type':'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'Authorization':'Basic '+basic_authorization_token.decode('utf-8'),} body = { 'grant_type':'password', 'username':stubhub_username, 'password':stubhub_password, 'scope':'PRODUCTION'} Making the call url = 'https://api.stubhub.com/login' r = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=body) token_respoonse = r.json() Many thanks, warm regards I am in the same boat here... Any help appreciated — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <https://gist.github.com/9fbbc83b354c568709dc4e6a30fea54f#gistcomment-3700419>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AOA4UIVQSO6FVE3YOPELVTDTH7KGFANCNFSM4IDSZ5VQ> .

What are you using for app token input?

@Chris123xc that's what you'll have to provide with your stubhub API credentials (if the API is still available, it's been a few years since i wrote this up)