How to power your Festival, Venue or Event Listings using Crescat data
Whether you run a music festival, a busy venue or promote concerts across the country, you want to publish event listings with confidence and accuracy in as few steps as possible.
The good news is that Crescat empowers users to do this with the data they already have in Crescat! In this article, we will walk you through the possibilities to connect your event data to the digital experiences your audiences rely on for discovering events and buying tickets.
The TLDR
Okay, so. You use Crescat to build and store event data - artist line-ups, venue programmes, festival schedules, event details. But you also publish this information to public platforms for your audiences to access. Well, instead of duplicating this data across multiple platforms, the Crescat API lets you push it automatically to your website, festival app, or other third-party platform.
Set it up once, manage everything in Crescat, decide what data is pushed from the system and your digital presence updates itself.
To get started, contact us at contact@crescat.io. Or scroll down to find out more.
Your Data, Everywhere It Needs to Be
Festival-goers, expect a real-time digital experience - who is on stage, when, and where - from their phone. Venue managers want their websites to reflect live listings without manually updating a CMS. Event organisers need their app providers to have the same up-to-the-minute information they have in their production software.
Crescat is already the hub where this data lives. The Crescat API makes it simple to push that data outward, connecting it to the websites, event apps, and third-party platforms that audiences actually interact with.
What the API Offers
The Crescat API is a REST API returning JSON, authenticated via Bearer Token. It provides programmatic access to your festivals, events, venues, performances, artist line-ups, and stage schedules. Common uses include:
- Displaying upcoming events and live schedules on your website
- Powering attendee-facing festival or event apps with real-time programme data
- Integrating with CRM, ERP, or ticketing systems
- Connecting to Zapier to automate workflows and reduce manual effort
For developers, Crescat provides a full API Reference, an OpenAPI v3.0 spec, and a Postman v2.1.0 collection — so you can go from documentation to a working integration quickly, with Crescat’s support throughout.
In Practice: Crescat & VIKIN
The Crescat & VIKIN partnership is a clear example of what the API makes possible. VIKIN builds offline-first mobile apps for outdoor events, and their integration with Crescat allows festivals to push line-up changes, artist profiles, and stage schedules directly to the attendee-facing app - automatically, with no duplicate data entry.
“We were delighted with the integration — it allowed us to build our entire event schedule in Crescat, with updates pushed to our app when we wanted. It was super easy to use.”
Joanna Booth, Programme Manager, Greenbelt Festival
Use Cases by Sector
Music Festivals
- Live line-up and schedule pages that update automatically when you change artists in Crescat
- Artist profiles powered by data from Crescat's advancing system
- Stage-by-stage programme grids for mobile and web
Venues & Theatres
- Automatically updated “What’s On” pages with no manual CMS editing
- Shared event calendars and booking forms driven by live booking data
- Mapping of custom fields to ticketing, CRM, or box office systems
Conferences & Trade Shows
- Live agenda pages updated in real time as sessions are added or moved
- Speaker profiles powered by data from Crescat’s advancing system
- Attendee apps showing session times, rooms, and speaker bios
Simple to Set Up
Crescat handles the setup on your behalf. Contact the team to request API access, your developer explores the endpoints using the reference docs or Postman collection, and authenticated calls are made to pull data into your website or app. From that point, your team simply manages events in Crescat as normal - everything downstream updates automatically.
There is no ongoing maintenance burden. The integration removes the need to re-enter data across multiple platforms — a common source of errors and wasted time for event teams working to tight deadlines. Nominal charges apply for setup and ongoing management of the service.