triangle-shows.net

A semi-interactive shows calendar for venues across the triangle.

triangle-shows.net

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What it does

In the background, a script scrapes show listings from every venues every 6 hours. The site itself lets you search and view events and details (and in some cases click through to buy tickets!) and customize your view by selecting or hiding shows and venues. You can also favorite events and download them to wherever you keep your calendar!

Venues covered

Venue	City
Boom Club	Durham
DPAC	Durham
Motorco Music Hall	Durham
Rubies on Five Poitns	Durham
Shadowbox Studio	Durham
Stancyks	Durham
The Pinhook	Durham
Cat's Cradle and Back Room	Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Local 506	Chapel Hill-Carrboro
The Cave	Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Haw River Ballroom	Saxapahaw
Chapel of Bones	Raleigh
Kings	Raleigh
Koka Booth Amphitheatre	Raleigh
Lincoln Theatre	Raleigh
Neptune's Parlour	Raleigh
Pour House	Raleigh
Red Hat Amphitheater	Raleigh
Slim's	Raleigh
The Ritz	Raleigh

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Roadmap

What I'm working on now

• Adding more venues (Sharp 9 Gallery, the Fruit, others???)
• Tinkering with the UI
• Hopefully making load times faster

What's next

• Handling custom / one-off events somehow
• Form submission for new events
• Email inbox
• Code hygiene

Later / eventually

• Stickers?
• Custom playlists?
• Possible UI re-design

IDK how but thinking about it

• Bringing in events from insta like Fuzzy Needle

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Help me!

I'm looking for co-developers here -- this thing could be really cool and TBH I am not an experienced developer! Reach out to me if you want to help

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Technical Stuff

What does what

• Backend: Python / FastAPI, SQLAlchemy (async), PostgreSQL
• Scrapers: Ticketmaster Discovery API + custom scrapers for RHP Tickets, Tribe Events, Squarespace, EventPrime, VenuePilot, and venue-specific parsers
• Scheduler: APScheduler (6-hour scrape interval in production)
• Frontend: Vanilla JS, FullCalendar v6
• Deployment: Google Cloud Run + Neon PostgreSQL + Cloud Scheduler

Running locally, if you want to

Requires Docker.

git clone https://github.com/ty-fi/triangle-shows
cd triangle-shows
cp backend/.env.example backend/.env   # add your TICKETMASTER_API_KEY
docker-compose up

The app is available at http://localhost:8000. On startup it runs migrations, seeds venues, and triggers an initial scrape.

To trigger a manual scrape:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/api/scrape

Project structure

backend/
  app/
    api/          # FastAPI route handlers
    scrapers/     # One scraper per venue/platform
    models.py     # SQLAlchemy ORM (Venue, Event, ScrapeLog)
    scheduler.py  # APScheduler job config
    seed.py       # Venue seed data
frontend/
  index.html
  css/styles.css
  js/
    app.js        # FullCalendar init
    filters.js    # Client-side filter logic
    config.js     # Palettes, API base URL
    modal.js      # Event detail modal
    favorites.js  # Heart/hide/export

Developer tools

Scripts in tools/ for local development and debugging. Note these are really only tested on my machine. Some may also be outdated.

Script	Purpose
import_submissions.py	Import approved show submissions from Google Sheet into DB
check_roots.py	Verify scraper URL roots resolve correctly
check_venue_urls.py	Spot-check venue event page URLs
diagnose_scrapers.py	Run scrapers individually and report output/errors
inspect_html.py	Print raw HTML from a venue page for scraper debugging
inspect_js_venues.py	Inspect JS-heavy venue pages for API/widget patterns
wait_for_deploy.py	If you're deploying with Google Cloud Build this will let you know when the new build is live
run_scrape.py	Runs the scrape API and provides a summary of what happened. Prints results to tools/scrape_results.log.

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Licensing / Contact me:

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 3.

Contact me at @tyfi.