Our proprietary web robot is similar to a search engine’s web crawler, but much more focused. On a regularly scheduled basis the robot scans over 110 online band and venue schedules; compares the respective schedule’s events to the events in our database; then updates our database, which is the source for our web schedules. The robot posts about 85% of all events on our schedules.
Each web site schedule requires a module tailored to the respective site’s HTML, extracting, verifying and formatting the date, time, venue, address, links and other information for use by the main robot module. A few sites refuse to connect to the robot and some schedules have HTML the robot can not understand.
We try, but we only post events with a street address that our readers can locate on a map, or events with a link to a valid website. Events not meeting our posting requirements are saved in a suspense file for manual resolution and posting using our Robot Assist interface. Events are automatically published when:
appears for bands posted by the robot.
Please contact us for a site review. Include the URL of the schedule in your message. The site review and custom interface module are provided free of any charges.