Pp Bandsintown

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Bandsintown — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the bandsintown-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows:

   npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install bandsintown --cli-only

2. Verify: bandsintown-pp-cli --version
3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer):

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/media-and-entertainment/bandsintown/cmd/bandsintown-pp-cli@latest

If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

When to Use This CLI

Reach for this CLI when a booking question depends on aggregating Bandsintown data across artists or over time — tour-routing feasibility, calendar-gap detection, co-bill patterns, tracker_count deltas. For one-off 'what shows does Phoenix have' queries, the bandsintown.com web UI is fine. For repeatable, agent-driven, multi-artist intelligence, this is the right tool.

When Not to Use This CLI

Do not activate this CLI for requests that require creating, updating, deleting, publishing, commenting, upvoting, inviting, ordering, sending messages, booking, purchasing, or changing remote state. This printed CLI exposes read-only commands for inspection, export, sync, and analysis.

Unique Capabilities

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Routing intelligence

• route — Find which tracked artists already have shows near a target city within a date window — feasibility-ranked routing candidates for booking.

  When booking an event in a specific city, the cheapest path is finding an artist already routing through the region. Reach for this before any cold outreach.

  bandsintown-pp-cli route --to "Jakarta,ID" --on 2026-08-15 --window 7d --tracked --json

• gaps — Find empty windows in an artist's tour calendar that match an event slot length, optionally constrained to a region.

  Use this to identify artists with a touring gap that aligns with your event date — the most actionable booking lead.

  bandsintown-pp-cli gaps "Beach House" --min 5d --max 21d --in SEA --json

• sea-radar — One-shot Southeast Asia briefing: all upcoming shows in a date range across tracked artists, grouped by city, tagged with tracker tier.

  Monday-morning briefing in one invocation: who is touring SEA in your event window, ranked by demand.

  bandsintown-pp-cli sea-radar --date 2026-08-01,2026-08-31 --tier mid --json

Lineup intelligence

• lineup co-bill — Surface which artists frequently co-bill with a given artist by aggregating lineup arrays across many events.

  When building festival lineups, find natural co-bill pairings backed by real shared-stage history.

  bandsintown-pp-cli lineup co-bill "Phoenix" --since 2024-01-01 --min-shared 2 --json

Demand intelligence

• trend — Track tracker_count and upcoming_event_count over time per artist; surface rising and falling demand signals.

  Rising tracker_count is a leading indicator of audience demand; use to decide who to book before peers notice.

  bandsintown-pp-cli trend --top 20 --period 30d --json

Agent-native plumbing

• pull — Re-fetch every tracked artist's events with a staleness window; emit a structured diff (added / removed / changed events) for downstream agents.

  Run this in a daily cron; pipe the diff into Slack or a project tracker to alert when tracked artists add new shows.

  bandsintown-pp-cli pull --tracked --since-stale 12 --json

Local state that compounds

• track — Local watchlist of artists you care about. Drives sync, snapshot, route, and sea-radar.

  Build a curated watchlist once; every other intelligence command reads from it.

  bandsintown-pp-cli track add "Phoenix" "Tame Impala" "Beach House"

Command Reference

artists — Manage artists

• bandsintown-pp-cli artists <artistname> — Get artist information

events — Manage events

• bandsintown-pp-cli events <artistname> — Get upcoming, past, or all artist events, or events within a date range

Finding the right command

When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly:

bandsintown-pp-cli which "<capability in your own words>"

which resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code 0 means at least one match; exit code 2 means no confident match — fall back to --help or use a narrower query.

Recipes

Monday-morning SEA routing briefing

bandsintown-pp-cli sea-radar --date 2026-08-01,2026-08-31 --tier mid --json --select 'shows.city,shows.artist,shows.datetime,shows.tracker_count'

Print a SEA-only briefing for the August event window with only the fields you need. Run bandsintown-pp-cli pull --tracked first to hydrate the local store.

Rising-demand artists this month

bandsintown-pp-cli trend --top 20 --period 30d --json

Compare today's tracker_count snapshot against snapshots from the last 30 days. Output the top 20 rising artists. Run bandsintown-pp-cli snapshot more than once over time to grow the time series.

Festival co-bill for a candidate headliner

bandsintown-pp-cli lineup co-bill "Phoenix" --since 2024-01-01 --min-shared 2 --json

Surface every artist who shared a stage with Phoenix on 2+ events since 2024. Pipes cleanly into your lineup planner.