Introduction to the Course

Get an overview of the course and its intended audience, prerequisites, and learning objectives.

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What's this course about?

This course provides a quick overview of the SeatGeek API and the different search endpoints it provides—for example, for searching events, venues, performers, and so on. By the end of this course, you'll be able to integrate the SeatGeek API into a working application for providing optimized live event searches for your users.

The intended audience for this course includes the following:

  • Beginners who want to explore the SeatGeek API and integrate it into their project.
  • Intermediate learners who want to integrate a powerful search tool for finding events across North America.
  • Professional developers who are also SeatGeek partners and want to earn money by directing users to the SeatGeek website.

Prerequisites

This course requires you to know how to make HTTP requests in Python. It would help if you also had some proficiency with Python’s Django framework because you’ll be integrating the SeatGeek API with a Django project at the end of the course.

Learning objectives

By the end of the course, you'll be able to:

  • Understand the different API services provided by the SeatGeek API.
  • Fetch information about live events, venues, and performers.
  • Explore the many search parameters on SeatGeek to provide the most optimized results for the user.
  • Integrate the SeatGeek API in a simple dashboard web application.