Building a Trade Show Ticketing Pipeline with Open Data and pretix

Building a Trade Show Ticketing Pipeline with Open Data and pretix The trade show industry generates over $30 billion annually. Yet finding basic, structured data about trade shows — names, dates, venues, industries — is surprisingly difficult. Most information is scattered across hundreds of event websites, many outdated, and none machine-readable. Meanwhile, if you're using pretix (the open-source event ticketing platform) to manage trade show registrations, you're manually entering every event's details from scratch. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to connect an open trade show dataset to pretix's REST API — so you can spin up ticketing for any major trade show in seconds instead of minutes. The Problem Imagine you organize ticketing for multiple trade shows per year. For each one, you need to: Look up the show's official dates and venue Create the event in pretix Set up ticket types (exhibitor, visitor, VIP, press) Configure the right currency and timezone That's 15-20 minutes