Definition
Local event aggregation is the practice of pulling event data (shows, festivals, sports, meetups) from many scattered local sources — venue calendars, ticketing platforms, city sites, Reddit threads, Eventbrite, Meetup, university pages — and normalizing them into a single feed or calendar.
In Depth
An r/AnnArbor post in May 2026 launched an aggregator (a2eventsearch.com) that quickly hit 110 upvotes by solving the 'check 8 different sites to figure out what's happening this weekend' problem. The pattern is broadly applicable: most cities have no canonical events feed, and Eventbrite/Meetup do not cover venue-direct calendars or community spaces. The pragmatic stack: a curated source list (5-15 sources per city), a pull schedule per source (daily for high-volume venues, weekly for others), a parsing layer (HTML extract, ICS feed, or structured-search via Scavio for site-search style 'site:venue.com events 2026'), and a normalization layer that turns each event into a typed JSON record (title, datetime, venue, url, category). Reddit signal helps surface community events the venue calendars miss. Per-month cost for a one-city aggregator with ~10 sources is typically under $50 in API costs at the scale of an indie side project.
Example Usage
Mid-size city aggregator pulls events from venue.com calendars, Eventbrite city feed, university event lists, and r/CityName Reddit threads. Scavio site-search across 8 venue domains + Reddit search per week produces ~600 normalized events. Hosted as a clean public list with no login.
Platforms
Local Event Aggregation is relevant across the following platforms, all accessible through Scavio's unified API: