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by jeeceebees 3596 days ago
Another integration I'd like to see is with Facebook events. Really the only reason I have a Facebook account is to keep track of concerts I'm going to. All the info and tickets are in the same place and I can follow certain events / groups and get notifications when new concerts pop up. If the events I'm "going" to could automatically be added to my Showlist I'd be completely sold!

Also I've noticed that this is geared toward there being 1 artist/band at each show. This might be different for different genres, but here in NL the Drum & Bass scene has like 5-6 names playing at each event so it is a bit tedious to have to enter each one manually. Again I think Facebook event integration would be a great solution to this issue because the official events have all the information about the concert if you can manage to recognize the relevant information in each post.

I think Facebook probably has the most complete summary of events across all genres if you can find a way to parse out the non-concert related events. This is probably pretty hard to implement well, but might work out with a smart enough spider crawling Facebook.

https://showlist.io/@JeeCeeBees :)

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Facebook Events is a damn good idea. I am going to be looking into this and see if it is at all possible to do. Thanks for the feedback.

https://showlist.io/@jonny ;-)