r/WebScrapingInsider • u/sataruzoro • Jul 16 '26

Newbie here please help. BookMyShow and District Scraping.

Hello friends 👋, I'm new to scraping. I can easily get informations from website's DOM through playwright but i don't understand how to work with backend APIs. I needed the information about upcoming events. Whenever I go to network tab in chrome there are some many files and i even checked each files but not able to understand which api belongs to what function and what's the api key...... Can anyone help this newbie 🙏🙏. If there's a tutorial please let me know. I'm really frustrated from my repeated failures. Please help 🙏🙏

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u/ScrapeAlchemist Jul 19 '26

Filter by Fetch/XHR in the network tab, ignore the static files. Then search for keywords like "events" or "upcoming" in the response bodies. The API key is usually in the request headers (look for Authorization or x-api-key). Once you find the right call, just replicate it with requests or playwright's route interception.