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Peterborough’s events, venues and businesses, as data

For event platforms, booking tools, travel management companies, apps and anyone building something for the city. Plain JSON over HTTPS, the same data this site is built from, and free: sign up below for your key.

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What's on

Every live event in and around Peterborough, soonest first: dates, venue with position, prices, booking link, organiser, categories and pictures.

GET https://explorepeterborough.co.uk/toolkit/open/v1/whats-on.json?key=YOUR_KEY

The list: events, with _generated (when it was made)
How much: 50 a page: add ?page=2 and so on; the reply says how many pages there are.
Each item: id, slug, title, url, summary, description, starts_at, ends_at, all_day, dates, is_free, price_from, price_to, ticket_url, booking_info, age_suitability, accessibility, image, thumbnail, organiser, organiser_url, categories, venue {name, address, postcode, lat, lng}

Meeting venues

Venues for meetings, conferences and events, largest first, with the facts an organiser asks first.

GET https://explorepeterborough.co.uk/toolkit/open/v1/meeting-venues.json?key=YOUR_KEY

The list: venues, with _generated (when it was made)
How much: All of them in one reply.
Each item: id, name, type, max_capacity, max_capacity_note, rooms, layouts, bedrooms, parking, highlights, address, postcode, lat, lng, website, contact, day_rate, outside

Businesses

The business directory (companies and employers, with their sector) and the places to eat, drink, shop and stay.

GET https://explorepeterborough.co.uk/toolkit/open/v1/businesses.json?key=YOUR_KEY

The list: businesses, with _generated (when it was made)
How much: All of them in one reply. category "Business" is the business directory; sector is its line of work.
Each item: id, name, category, sector, lat, lng, address, phone, website, opening_hours, description, image, link

Good to know

Send your key with every call: the header X-Api-Key, or ?key= on the address. Calls without one get a 401.
Any website can call the feeds from the browser (they allow cross-origin requests), or call them from your server.
Please cache what you fetch: the feeds change a few times a day, and very frequent calls are slowed down.
Times are UK local time, written as ISO 8601. Positions are latitude and longitude (WGS 84).
An empty value is an empty string or null, never a guess. A field may be added, but one is never renamed without notice.
Please credit Explore Peterborough with a link to explorepeterborough.co.uk wherever you show the data.

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