# Resident Advisor (`augeas/resident-advisor`) Actor

Crawl Resident Advisor artists, and obtain details of their events, top venues and locations, followers and social media.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/augeas/resident-advisor.md
- **Developed by:** [Giles Greenway](https://apify.com/augeas) (community)
- **Categories:** Other
- **Stats:** 140 total users, 3 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 6 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$5.00/month + usage

To use this Actor, you pay a monthly rental fee to the developer. The rent is subtracted from your prepaid usage every month after the free trial period. You also pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher Apify subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#rental-actors

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

### Resident Advisor

Crawl [Resident Advisor](https://ra.co/) artists, and obtain details of their events, top venues and locations, followers and social media.

#### Input Fields

- startURLs: URLs in the form `https://ra.co/dj/ARTIST_URL_NAME`, eg: [`https://ra.co/dj/kavari`](https://ra.co/dj/kavari)
- artistDepth: The maximum recursion depth when crawling related artists, defaults to 1, just the given URLs
- maxArtists: The maximum number of artists to crawl, defaults to 1000

You get nested JSON output for each artist, eg:

```json
[{
  "artistName": "KAVARI",
  "artistId": "102436",
  "followerCount": 716,
  "firstName": "Cameron",
  "lastName": "Winters",
  "aliases": "EEL BLOOD",
  "facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/KAVARIMUSIC",
  "soundcloud": "https://www.soundcloud.com/kavarimusic",
  "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/kavari_____",
  "twitter": "https://www.twitter.com/KAVARI_",
  "bandcamp": "https://kavarimusic.bandcamp.com/",
  "discogs": null,
  "website": null,
  "urlSafeName": "kavari",
  "pronouns": "She/Her",
  "blurb": "Cameron Sofia Winters, known professionally as KAVARI...",
  "artistVenues": [
    {
      "venueId": "2587",
      "venueName": "Corsica Studios"
    }
  ],
  "artistAreas": [
    {
      "areaId": "340",
      "areaName": "Glasgow",
      "areaUrl": "glasgow",
      "countryId": "3",
      "countryUrl": "UK"
    }
  ],
  "relatedArtists": [
    {
      "artistId": "124891",
      "artistName": "Blood of Aza",
      "url": "/dj/bloodofaza",
      "followerCount": 104
    }
  ],
  "artistLabels": [
    {
      "labelId": "16961",
      "labelName": "Meld",
      "followerCount": 3
    }
  ],
  "events": [
    {
      "eventId": "1631805",
      "eventName": "minus one: Hosted by Nitetrax",
      "attending": 19,
      "start": "2023-03-09T21:00:00.000",
      "artists": [
        {
          "artistId": "102436",
          "artistName": "KAVARI",
          "url": "/dj/kavari"
        }
      ],
      "venueId": "2005",
      "venueName": "ICA",
      "areaId": "13",
      "areaName": "London",
      "areaUrl": "london",
      "countryId": "3",
      "countryUrl": "UK"
    }
  ]
}]
```

#### Caveats

- Some artists will have quite a few events, there will be several POST requests.
- If you crawl related artists recursively, they may appear in the results in any order.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

URLs to start with, of the form https://ra.co/dj/ARTIST\_URL\_NAME

## `maxDepth` (type: `integer`):

recursion depth for related artists, default 1

## `maxArtists` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of artists to crawl, default 1000

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://ra.co/dj/kavari"
    }
  ],
  "maxDepth": 1,
  "maxArtists": 1000
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://ra.co/dj/kavari"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("augeas/resident-advisor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://ra.co/dj/kavari" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("augeas/resident-advisor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://ra.co/dj/kavari"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call augeas/resident-advisor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,augeas/resident-advisor"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/kiwXzTmsIFqUplqGm/builds/YD2PlaZhVVj4yISdT/openapi.json