Events¶

Resource description¶

The event resource contains the following public fields:

Field	Type	Description
name	multi-lingual string	The event’s full name
slug	string	A short form of the name, used e.g. in URLs.
live	boolean	If `true`, the event ticket shop is publicly available.
testmode	boolean	If `true`, the ticket shop is in test mode.
currency	string	The currency this event is handled in.
date_from	datetime	The event’s start date
date_to	datetime	The event’s end date (or `null`)
date_admission	datetime	The event’s admission date (or `null`)
is_public	boolean	If `true`, the event shows up in places like the organizer’s public list of events
presale_start	datetime	The date at which the ticket shop opens (or `null`)
presale_end	datetime	The date at which the ticket shop closes (or `null`)
location	multi-lingual string	The event location (or `null`)
geo_lat	float	Latitude of the location (or `null`)
geo_lon	float	Longitude of the location (or `null`)
has_subevents	boolean	`true` if the event series feature is active for this event. Cannot change after event is created.
meta_data	object	Values set for organizer-specific meta data parameters. The allowed keys need to be set up as meta properties in the organizer configuration.
plugins	list	A list of package names of the enabled plugins for this event.
seating_plan	integer	If reserved seating is in use, the ID of a seating plan. Otherwise `null`.
seat_category_mapping	object	An object mapping categories of the seating plan (strings) to items in the event (integers or `null`).
timezone	string	Event timezone name
item_meta_properties	object	Item-specific meta data parameters and default values.
valid_keys	object	Cryptographic keys for non-default signature schemes. For performance reason, value is omitted in lists and only contained in detail views. Value can be cached.
sales_channels	list	A list of sales channels this event is available for sale on.
public_url	string	The public, customer-facing URL of the event (read-only).

Endpoints¶

Changed in version 4.0: The clone_from parameter has been added to the event creation endpoint.

Changed in version 4.1: The with_availability_for parameter has been added.

The search query parameter has been added to filter events by their slug, name, or location in any language.

Changed in version 4.17: The public_url field has been added.

Changed in version 5.0: The date_from_before, date_from_after, date_to_before, and date_to_after query parameters have been added.

GET /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/¶

Returns a list of all events within a given organizer the authenticated user/token has access to.

Permission required: “Can change event settings”

Example request:

GET /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "count": 1,
  "next": null,
  "previous": null,
  "results": [
    {
      "name": {"en": "Sample Conference"},
      "slug": "sampleconf",
      "live": false,
      "testmode": false,
      "currency": "EUR",
      "date_from": "2017-12-27T10:00:00Z",
      "date_to": null,
      "date_admission": null,
      "is_public": null,
      "presale_start": null,
      "presale_end": null,
      "location": null,
      "geo_lat": null,
      "geo_lon": null,
      "has_subevents": false,
      "meta_data": {},
      "seating_plan": null,
      "seat_category_mapping": {},
      "timezone": "Europe/Berlin",
      "item_meta_properties": {},
      "plugins": [
        "pretix.plugins.banktransfer",
        "pretix.plugins.stripe",
        "pretix.plugins.paypal",
        "pretix.plugins.ticketoutputpdf"
      ],
      "sales_channels": [
        "web",
        "pretixpos",
        "resellers"
      ],
      "public_url": "https://pretix.eu/bigevents/sampleconf/"
    }
  ]
}

Query Parameters:

page – The page number in case of a multi-page result set, default is 1
is_public – If set to true/false, only events with a matching value of is_public are returned.
live – If set to true/false, only events with a matching value of live are returned.
testmode – If set to true/false, only events with a matching value of testmode are returned.
has_subevents – If set to true/false, only events with a matching value of has_subevents are returned.
is_future – If set to true (false), only events that happen currently or in the future are (not) returned. Event series are never (always) returned.
is_past – If set to true (false), only events that are over are (not) returned. Event series are never (always) returned.
date_from_after – If set to a date and time, only events that start at or after the given time are returned.
date_from_before – If set to a date and time, only events that start at or before the given time are returned.
date_to_after – If set to a date and time, only events that have an end date and end at or after the given time are returned.
date_to_before – If set to a date and time, only events that have an end date and end at or before the given time are returned.
ends_after – If set to a date and time, only events that happen during of after the given time are returned. Event series are never returned.
ordering (string) – Manually set the ordering of results. Valid fields to be used are date_from and slug. Keep in mind that date_from of event series does not really tell you anything. Default: slug.
attr[meta_data_key] (array) – By providing the key and value of a meta data attribute, the list of events will only contain the events matching the set criteria. Providing ?attr[Format]=Seminar would return only those events having set their Format meta data to Seminar, ?attr[Format]= only those, that have no value set. Please note that this filter will respect default values set on organizer level.
sales_channel – If set to a sales channel identifier, only events allowed to be sold on the specified sales channel are returned.
with_availability_for – If set to a sales channel identifier, the response will contain a special best_availability_state attribute with values of 100 for “tickets available”, values less than 100 for “tickets sold out or reserved”, and null for “status unknown”. These values might be served from a cache. This parameter can make the response slow.
search – Only return events matching a given search query.

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of a valid organizer

Status Codes:

200 OK – no error
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer does not exist or you have no permission to view it.

GET /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/(event)/¶

Returns information on one event, identified by its slug.

Permission required: “Can change event settings”

Example request:

GET /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/sampleconf/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "name": {"en": "Sample Conference"},
  "slug": "sampleconf",
  "live": false,
  "testmode": false,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "date_from": "2017-12-27T10:00:00Z",
  "date_to": null,
  "date_admission": null,
  "is_public": false,
  "presale_start": null,
  "presale_end": null,
  "location": null,
  "geo_lat": null,
  "geo_lon": null,
  "has_subevents": false,
  "seating_plan": null,
  "seat_category_mapping": {},
  "meta_data": {},
  "timezone": "Europe/Berlin",
  "item_meta_properties": {},
  "plugins": [
    "pretix.plugins.banktransfer",
    "pretix.plugins.stripe",
    "pretix.plugins.paypal",
    "pretix.plugins.ticketoutputpdf"
  ],
  "valid_keys": {
    "pretix_sig1": [
      "LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBQVUJMSUMgS0VZLS0tLS0KTUNvd0JRWURLMlZ3QXlFQTdBRDcvdkZBMzNFc1k0ejJQSHI3aVpQc1o4bjVkaDBhalA4Z3l6Tm1tSXM9Ci0tLS0tRU5EIFBVQkxJQyBLRVktLS0tLQo="
    ]
  },
  "sales_channels": [
    "web",
    "pretixpos",
    "resellers"
  ],
  "public_url": "https://pretix.eu/bigevents/sampleconf/"
}

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer to fetch
event – The slug field of the event to fetch

Status Codes:

200 OK – no error
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer/event does not exist or you have no permission to view it.

POST /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/¶

Creates a new event

Please note that events cannot be created as ‘live’ using this endpoint. Quotas and payment must be added to the event before sales can go live.

Permission required: “Can create events”

Example request:

POST /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "name": {"en": "Sample Conference"},
  "slug": "sampleconf",
  "live": false,
  "testmode": false,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "date_from": "2017-12-27T10:00:00Z",
  "date_to": null,
  "date_admission": null,
  "is_public": false,
  "presale_start": null,
  "presale_end": null,
  "seating_plan": null,
  "seat_category_mapping": {},
  "location": null,
  "geo_lat": null,
  "geo_lon": null,
  "has_subevents": false,
  "meta_data": {},
  "timezone": "Europe/Berlin",
  "item_meta_properties": {},
  "plugins": [
    "pretix.plugins.stripe",
    "pretix.plugins.paypal"
  ],
  "sales_channels": [
    "web",
    "pretixpos",
    "resellers"
  ]
}

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "name": {"en": "Sample Conference"},
  "slug": "sampleconf",
  "live": false,
  "testmode": false,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "date_from": "2017-12-27T10:00:00Z",
  "date_to": null,
  "date_admission": null,
  "is_public": false,
  "presale_start": null,
  "presale_end": null,
  "location": null,
  "geo_lat": null,
  "geo_lon": null,
  "seating_plan": null,
  "seat_category_mapping": {},
  "has_subevents": false,
  "meta_data": {},
  "timezone": "Europe/Berlin",
  "item_meta_properties": {},
  "plugins": [
    "pretix.plugins.stripe",
    "pretix.plugins.paypal"
  ],
  "sales_channels": [
    "web",
    "pretixpos",
    "resellers"
  ],
  "public_url": "https://pretix.eu/bigevents/sampleconf/"
}

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer of the event to create.

Query Parameters:

clone_from – Set to event_slug to clone data (settings, products, …) from an event with this slug in the same organizer or to organizer_slug/event_slug to clone from an event within a different organizer.

Status Codes:

201 Created – no error
400 Bad Request – The event could not be created due to invalid submitted data.
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer does not exist or you have no permission to create this resource.

POST /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/(event)/clone/¶

Creates a new event with properties as set in the request body. The properties that are copied are: is_public, testmode, has_subevents, settings, plugin settings, items, variations, add-ons, quotas, categories, tax rules, questions.

If the plugins, has_subevents, meta_data and/or is_public fields are present in the post body this will determine their value. Otherwise their value will be copied from the existing event.

Please note that you can only copy from events under the same organizer this way. Use the clone_from parameter when creating a new event for this instead.

Permission required: “Can create events”

Example request:

POST /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/sampleconf/clone/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "name": {"en": "Sample Conference"},
  "slug": "sampleconf",
  "live": false,
  "testmode": false,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "date_from": "2017-12-27T10:00:00Z",
  "date_to": null,
  "date_admission": null,
  "is_public": false,
  "presale_start": null,
  "presale_end": null,
  "location": null,
  "geo_lat": null,
  "geo_lon": null,
  "seating_plan": null,
  "seat_category_mapping": {},
  "has_subevents": false,
  "meta_data": {},
  "timezone": "Europe/Berlin",
  "item_meta_properties": {},
  "plugins": [
    "pretix.plugins.stripe",
    "pretix.plugins.paypal"
  ],
  "sales_channels": [
    "web",
    "pretixpos",
    "resellers"
  ]
}

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "name": {"en": "Sample Conference"},
  "slug": "sampleconf",
  "live": false,
  "testmode": false,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "date_from": "2017-12-27T10:00:00Z",
  "date_to": null,
  "date_admission": null,
  "is_public": false,
  "presale_start": null,
  "presale_end": null,
  "location": null,
  "geo_lat": null,
  "geo_lon": null,
  "has_subevents": false,
  "seating_plan": null,
  "seat_category_mapping": {},
  "meta_data": {},
  "timezone": "Europe/Berlin",
  "item_meta_properties": {},
  "plugins": [
    "pretix.plugins.stripe",
    "pretix.plugins.paypal"
  ],
  "sales_channels": [
    "web",
    "pretixpos",
    "resellers"
  ],
  "public_url": "https://pretix.eu/bigevents/sampleconf/"
}

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer of the event to create.
event – The slug field of the event to copy settings and items from.

Status Codes:

201 Created – no error
400 Bad Request – The event could not be created due to invalid submitted data.
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer does not exist or you have no permission to create this resource.

PATCH /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/(event)/¶

Updates an event

Permission required: “Can change event settings”

Example request:

PATCH /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/sampleconf/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "plugins": [
    "pretix.plugins.banktransfer",
    "pretix.plugins.stripe",
    "pretix.plugins.paypal",
    "pretix.plugins.pretixdroid"
  ]
}

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "name": {"en": "Sample Conference"},
  "slug": "sampleconf",
  "live": false,
  "testmode": false,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "date_from": "2017-12-27T10:00:00Z",
  "date_to": null,
  "date_admission": null,
  "is_public": false,
  "presale_start": null,
  "presale_end": null,
  "location": null,
  "geo_lat": null,
  "geo_lon": null,
  "has_subevents": false,
  "seating_plan": null,
  "seat_category_mapping": {},
  "meta_data": {},
  "timezone": "Europe/Berlin",
  "item_meta_properties": {},
  "plugins": [
    "pretix.plugins.banktransfer",
    "pretix.plugins.stripe",
    "pretix.plugins.paypal",
    "pretix.plugins.pretixdroid"
  ],
  "sales_channels": [
    "web",
    "pretixpos",
    "resellers"
  ],
  "public_url": "https://pretix.eu/bigevents/sampleconf/"
}

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer of the event to update
event – The slug field of the event to update

Status Codes:

200 OK – no error
400 Bad Request – The event could not be created due to invalid submitted data.
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer/event does not exist or you have no permission to create this resource.

DELETE /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/(event)/¶

Delete an event. Note that events with orders cannot be deleted to ensure data integrity.

Permission required: “Can change event settings”

Example request:

DELETE /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/sampleconf/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Vary: Accept

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer to modify
event – The slug field of the event to delete

Status Codes:

204 No Content – no error
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer/event does not exist or you have no permission to delete this resource.

Event settings¶

pretix events have lots and lots of parameters of different types that are stored in a key-value store on our system. Since many of these settings depend on each other in complex ways, we can not give direct access to all of these settings through the API. However, we do expose many of the simple and useful flags through the API.

Please note that the available settings flags change between pretix versions and also between events, depending on the installed plugins, and we do not give a guarantee on backwards-compatibility like with other parts of the API. Therefore, we’re also not including a list of the options here, but instead recommend to look at the endpoint output to see available options. The explain=true flag enables a verbose mode that provides you with human-readable information about the properties.

Note that some settings are read-only, e.g. because they can be read on event level but currently only be changed on organizer level.

Note

Please note that this is not a complete representation of all event settings. You will find more settings in the web interface.

Warning

This API is intended for advanced users. Even though we take care to validate your input, you will be able to break your event using this API by creating situations of conflicting settings. Please take care.

Note

When authenticating with Device authentication, only a limited subset of settings is available.

GET /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/(event)/settings/¶

Get current values of event settings.

Permission required: “Can change event settings” (Exception: with device auth, some settings can always be read.)

Example request:

GET /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/sampleconf/settings/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript

Example standard response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "imprint_url": "https://pretix.eu",
  …
}

Example verbose response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "imprint_url":
    {
      "value": "https://pretix.eu",
      "label": "Imprint URL",
      "readonly": false,
      "help_text": "This should point e.g. to a part of your website that has your contact details and legal information."
    }
  },
  …
}

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer of the event to access
event – The slug field of the event to access

Query Parameters:

explain – Set to true to enable verbose response mode

Status Codes:

200 OK – no error
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer/event does not exist or you have no permission to view this resource.

Changed in version 4.18: The readonly flag has been added.

PATCH /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/(event)/settings/¶

Updates event settings. Note that PUT is not allowed here, only PATCH.

Warning

Settings can be stored at different levels in pretix. If a value is not set on event level, a default setting from a higher level (organizer, global) will be returned. If you explicitly set a setting on event level, it will no longer be inherited from the higher levels. Therefore, we recommend you to send only settings that you explicitly want to set on event level. To unset a settings, pass null.

Example request:

PATCH /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/sampleconf/settings/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "imprint_url": "https://example.org/imprint/"
}

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "imprint_url": "https://example.org/imprint/",
  …
}

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer of the event to update
event – The slug field of the event to update

Status Codes:

200 OK – no error
400 Bad Request – The event could not be updated due to invalid submitted data.
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer/event does not exist or you have no permission to create this resource.