Animal NYC Events API

Animal NYC publishes its upcoming nights as a free, open feed: no key, no sign-up. Use it to list our events in your app or website.

Endpoints

GET https://animal.nyc/api/v1/events

schema.org JSON-LD (the default). Add a switch for plain JSON:

GET https://animal.nyc/api/v1/events?format=json

?format=jsonld is accepted too. Any other value gets a 400. Calendar feed:

GET https://animal.nyc/calendar.ics

Formats

The default is schema.org: an ItemList of MusicEvent, each at a BarOrPub. Google and most event aggregators already read it. Plain JSON is a flat shape for when you don’t want to learn schema.org.

Example

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "ItemList",
  "itemListElement": [
    {
      "@type": "MusicEvent",
      "@id": "https://animal.nyc/#night-2026-11-05",
      "identifier": "2026-11-05",
      "name": "Bears Are Animals",
      "url": "https://animal.nyc/#schedule",
      "doorTime": "2026-11-05T16:00:00-05:00",
      "startDate": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00",
      "endDate": "2026-11-06T04:00:00-05:00",
      "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled",
      "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode",
      "typicalAgeRange": "21-",
      "isAccessibleForFree": true,
      "offers": {
        "@type": "Offer",
        "description": "No Cover",
        "url": "https://animal.nyc"
      },
      "image": "https://animal.nyc/og-image.png",
      "performer": [
        {
          "@type": "Person",
          "name": "Sindri"
        },
        {
          "@type": "Person",
          "name": "Daiyah"
        }
      ],
      "subEvent": [
        {
          "@type": "MusicEvent",
          "name": "Sindri",
          "startDate": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00",
          "endDate": "2026-11-05T22:00:00-05:00",
          "performer": {
            "@type": "Person",
            "name": "Sindri"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "MusicEvent",
          "name": "Daiyah",
          "startDate": "2026-11-05T22:00:00-05:00",
          "endDate": "2026-11-06T04:00:00-05:00",
          "performer": {
            "@type": "Person",
            "name": "Daiyah"
          }
        }
      ],
      "organizer": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "ANIMAL",
        "url": "https://animal.nyc"
      },
      "location": {
        "@type": "BarOrPub",
        "name": "ANIMAL",
        "alternateName": "Animal NYC",
        "url": "https://animal.nyc",
        "image": "https://animal.nyc/og-image.png",
        "description": "GRRL. A Queer Bar Grows in Brooklyn. 307 Meeker Avenue, Brooklyn 11211 | 2PM - 4AM Sat & Sun | 4PM - 4AM Mon - Fri",
        "sameAs": [
          "https://www.instagram.com/animal.nyc"
        ],
        "geo": {
          "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
          "latitude": 40.7173904,
          "longitude": -73.9493112
        },
        "address": {
          "@type": "PostalAddress",
          "streetAddress": "307 Meeker Av",
          "addressLocality": "Brooklyn",
          "addressRegion": "NY",
          "postalCode": "11211",
          "addressCountry": "US"
        },
        "hasMap": "https://maps.app.goo.gl/W7DAXA96AEZzXHyq7",
        "email": "info@animal.nyc",
        "telephone": "+17185500280"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Times

Every time is Animal NYC’s own local time with its zone offset, such as 2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 for 7PM in Brooklyn. The offset says which zone it is; it is not a conversion to UTC. Nights that run past midnight end on the next date.

Caching

The data refreshes every 5 minutes, so please don’t poll more often. Each response is the full snapshot of the next 30 nights: if an event disappears, it was cancelled.

Errors

503 means the schedule is briefly unavailable. Retry later; we never send an empty list when something is wrong. 400 means an unknown format.

Calendar

Subscribe in Google Calendar, or in Apple Calendar and Outlook with webcal://animal.nyc/calendar.ics. Apple Calendar refreshes as often as you set it; Google Calendar refreshes subscribed feeds on its own schedule, often every few hours.

Using the data

Please credit and link back to animal.nyc, don’t rewrite lineups, send a descriptive User-Agent, and don’t read our backend directly.

Contact

Questions, or want to be listed as a partner? Email info@animal.nyc.