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First real use case of the DondeGo API: daily event picks for Barcelona and Madrid

We have reached a small but important milestone for DondeGo API.

The first working use case is already live: we are using our API to power daily event selections for two local projects:

The idea is simple: every day, the system uses DondeGo data to select some of the best events happening today in Barcelona and Madrid.

Instead of manually searching across dozens of pages, calendars and sources, we can now use a structured local data layer with events, cities, dates, categories and editorial signals. This makes it much easier to build useful local discovery products.

Why this matters

A local event project usually needs three things:

  1. Fresh event data
  2. A way to filter it by city, date and category
  3. Enough structure to build products on top of it

That is exactly what we are building with DondeGo API.

For our own use case, the API helps us answer questions like:

What is happening in Barcelona today?
What are the most interesting events in Madrid today?
Which events are good enough to recommend?
How can we turn local data into a useful daily feed?

This is still an early version, but it already shows the direction clearly.

DondeGo API is not just a technical experiment. It is becoming a practical content layer for local discovery.

Want to build something with events in Barcelona or Madrid?

If you are building a project about events, culture, local plans, maps, newsletters or city discovery in Barcelona or Madrid, we would be happy to share the data with you for free.

The only thing we ask is simple:
Please link back to DondeGo as the source.

That helps us keep building the project, improve the data and support independent local media.

Possible use cases

You can use DondeGo API to build:

  • local event newsletters
  • city guides
  • interactive maps
  • Telegram or WhatsApp bots
  • daily event feeds
  • cultural recommendation tools
  • “what to do today” pages
  • travel and expat guides
  • niche projects for families, concerts, exhibitions or free events

We are especially interested in small independent projects, local builders and media experiments.

Links

If you want to test the API or build something with local event data for Barcelona or Madrid, feel free to contact us.

We would love to see more projects using structured local data to make city life easier to discover.

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