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EventBuzza’s website checker

How EventBuzza finds a venue’s own website and calendar, what it reads, how often, and how a site can say no.

EventBuzza helps people find what’s on at local venues. To keep a venue’s page up to date, it looks at the venue’s own website and the calendar it publishes there.

What it reads

• A venue’s website comes from its public business listing, or from its manager. EventBuzza uses it only when the home page names the venue with its town, street or phone.
• On that site it reads the home page and a few events pages, looking for a calendar: a calendar file, a Google Calendar or Tockify calendar, an events feed, or event details on the page.
• It lists a venue’s events only after the venue’s manager, or the EventBuzza team for a venue nobody manages, says yes. Listed events link back to the venue’s own page.
• It reads public pages only. It never signs in, fills in forms or buys tickets, and it doesn’t keep the pages it reads.

How often

• A venue’s website is looked for once, then again about every 90 days.
• An approved calendar is read about every 6 hours. An events page read by AI is read again only when it changes.
• Requests name EventBuzza in their user agent, with a link to this page.

Saying no

• EventBuzza follows robots.txt. To keep it off a site, add `User-agent: EventBuzza` and `Disallow: /` to the site’s robots.txt.
• A venue’s manager can stop any calendar in the Venue Manager → Website & calendar (untick Keep my page in sync); its events still to come come off.
• Or write to us (see Contact us).