upcoming-metal-concerts_skill

Overview

This skill searches for upcoming metal concerts and festivals worldwide by scraping concerts-metal.com. It returns event data filtered by country, city, or band and outputs results as a JSON array that can be rendered as a readable, date-sorted table. No API key is required and coverage includes metal, punk, hardcore, and related genres across 50+ countries.

How this skill works

The script queries concerts-metal.com broadcast pages and extracts event entries including date, artists, venue, city, and the original event URL. You can call it with command-line options to limit results by ISO country code, partial city name, or partial band name, and it can also print a list of supported country codes. Output is printed to stdout as a JSON array ready for consumption or formatting into a table.

When to use it

• When you want a quick list of upcoming metal shows in a specific country.
• When searching for concerts in a particular city or neighborhood using partial matches.
• When tracking tour dates for a specific band across supported countries.
• When building a local events page or feed that needs date-sorted metal gig data.
• When no API key is available and you need public concert listings.

Best practices

• Provide an ISO country code for broad regional results and use --list-countries to find valid codes.
• Use case-insensitive partial matches for city and band to catch variations in names.
• Pipe the JSON output into a formatter or script to present a readable table sorted by date.
• Re-run periodically to capture newly announced shows and festival updates.
• Respect the source site by limiting scraping frequency and caching results where possible.

Example use cases

• Fetch all upcoming metal concerts in Spain to populate a local events calendar.
• List shows in Valencia to plan weekend gig hopping and logistics.
• Search for a band’s UK tour dates to plan travel and ticket purchases.
• Generate a weekly newsletter with new metal festival announcements across Europe.
• Automate updates for a venue aggregator that displays date-sorted metal events.