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Amsterdam tourism data,
structured for scale.

We extract event schedules, City Card inclusions, museum metadata, neighbourhood guides, and expat directories from Iamsterdam. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3 or Snowflake on your cadence.

Events tracked
1,492 /week
Venues extracted
845 /run
City Card updates
312 /24h
Active pipelines
14
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from iamsterdam.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Events & Agenda objects from iamsterdam.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

event_idtitledate_startdate_endlocation_nameprice_mindescriptioncategoryticket_url
events_& agenda
● 200 OK
"event_id": "EVT-89321",
"title": "Amsterdam Light Festival",
"date_start": "2026-11-28",
"date_end": "2027-01-19",
"location_name": "City Centre Canals",
"price_min": 26.5,
"category": "Festival",
"ticket_url": "https://tickets.iamsterdam.com/light-festival"
# event_idtitledate_startdate_endlocation_nameprice_min
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Complete list of extractable fields for Venues & Museums objects from iamsterdam.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

venue_idnameaddresslatitudelongitudeopening_hoursadmission_feecity_card_includedphonewebsite
venues_& museums
● 200 OK
"venue_id": "VEN-104",
"name": "Rijksmuseum",
"address": "Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam",
"latitude": 52.3599,
"longitude": 4.8852,
"admission_fee": 22.5,
"city_card_included": true,
"website": "https://www.rijksmuseum.nl"
# venue_idnameaddresslatitudelongitudeopening_hours
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Complete list of extractable fields for City Card Offers objects from iamsterdam.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

offer_idoffer_titlediscount_typediscount_valuevenue_namevalid_untilcategorytermsurl
city_card offers
● 200 OK
"offer_id": "CC-902",
"offer_title": "Free Canal Cruise",
"discount_type": "FREE_ENTRY",
"discount_value": 100,
"venue_name": "Stromma Netherlands",
"category": "Transport",
"valid_until": "2026-12-31",
"url": "https://www.iamsterdam.com/city-card/offers/stromma"
# offer_idoffer_titlediscount_typediscount_valuevenue_namevalid_until
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Complete list of extractable fields for Expat Guides objects from iamsterdam.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

article_idtitlecategorypublish_datecontent_textrelated_linkstagsauthorurl
expat_guides
● 200 OK
"article_id": "EXP-441",
"title": "Registering with the municipality",
"category": "Formalities",
"publish_date": "2025-08-12",
"tags": "['BSN', 'Relocation', 'Municipality']",
"author": "IN Amsterdam",
"url": "https://www.iamsterdam.com/en/living/take-care-of-official-matters/registration"
# article_idtitlecategorypublish_datecontent_textrelated_links
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Complete list of extractable fields for Neighbourhoods objects from iamsterdam.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

neighbourhood_idnamedescriptionkey_attractionstransit_optionsatmosphere_tagsimage_urlsmap_polygonurl
neighbourhoods
● 200 OK
"neighbourhood_id": "NBH-12",
"name": "De Pijp",
"description": "A vibrant district known for the Albert Cuyp Market and diverse dining.",
"key_attractions": "['Albert Cuyp Market', 'Heineken Experience', 'Sarphatipark']",
"transit_options": "['Tram 3', 'Tram 12', 'Metro 52']",
"atmosphere_tags": "['Trendy', 'Culinary', 'Bustling']",
"url": "https://www.iamsterdam.com/en/explore/neighbourhoods/zuid/de-pijp"
# neighbourhood_idnamedescriptionkey_attractionstransit_optionsatmosphere_tags
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Capabilities

Extract municipal and cultural data at scale

Our Iamsterdam scraper navigates dynamic event calendars, interactive map layers, and multi-language directories to deliver structured tourism data.

Event Agenda Extraction

Dates, times, ticketing links, and categorisation for all cultural events across the city calendar.

Venue Metadata

Coordinates, opening hours, accessibility tags, and contact details for museums and attractions.

City Card Tracking

Monitor which venues offer free entry or discounts via the official I amsterdam City Card.

Expat Directory Scraping

Capture housing, healthcare, and schooling guides published for relocation agencies and new residents.

Neighbourhood Profiling

Extract localised guides, transit links, and attraction density metrics per district.

Dynamic Ticketing Prices

Track fluctuating admission fees and seasonal pricing models for major venues.

Multi-language Support

Extract content across Dutch, English, German, and French localisations of the portal.

Image & Media Mapping

Capture high-resolution URLs for venue galleries, event posters, and neighbourhood photography.

Scheduled Refresh

Run daily or weekly pipelines to keep event calendars and pricing accurate in your database.

// engagement pipeline

From target URLs to warehouse records

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide categories, event date ranges, or language variants. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, handle multi-language routing, and manage pagination.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and coordinate verification before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

Navigating municipal portal architecture

Iamsterdam relies heavily on dynamic loading for events and interactive map layers. Here is how we maintain data integrity.

pipeline-monitor · iamsterdam.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Dynamic Event Rendering
Playwright for calendar hydration

The event agenda relies on client-side JavaScript to load dates and filter results. We use full Playwright sessions to trigger API calls and render the complete calendar before extraction.

Multi-language routing
Consistent schema across locales

The site structure shifts between Dutch and English versions. Our pipelines normalise the DOM structure, mapping translated fields into a single unified schema regardless of the source language.

Map data extraction
Capturing coordinate pairs

Venue locations are often embedded in interactive map layers rather than plain text. We intercept the underlying JSON payloads to extract precise latitude and longitude coordinates.

Inconsistent venue schemas
Flexible fallback selectors

Museum pages differ significantly from restaurant listings. We deploy multi-layered XPath and CSS selectors to ensure contact details and opening hours are captured accurately across varying templates.

Change detection
Only update modified events

For ongoing pipelines, we maintain a hash index of event details. Subsequent runs only push updates for cancelled events, changed times, or new additions, reducing processing load.

Applications

Who uses Iamsterdam data

Teams across industries use iamsterdam.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
OTA & Travel Aggregators

Incorporate real-time local event calendars and museum metadata into booking platforms.

02
Relocation & Expat Services

Aggregate municipal guides, housing rules, and registration procedures for corporate relocation packages.

03
Event Discovery Apps

Populate local discovery applications with accurate, categorised cultural agendas and ticketing links.

04
Tourism Market Research

Analyse event density, pricing trends, and neighbourhood popularity to forecast tourism demand.

05
Local Business Directories

Sync official restaurant and venue listings to maintain accurate opening hours and contact details.

06
Dynamic Pricing Engines

Monitor City Card inclusions and competitor admission fees to adjust independent tour pricing.

Why DataFlirt

"Iamsterdam holds the definitive, real-time pulse of the city's cultural calendar and tourism infrastructure, but extracting it requires navigating complex multi-language DOMs."

Most teams underestimate the investment required to scrape municipal portals. Iamsterdam utilises dynamic event rendering, interactive map layers, and frequent layout updates. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis, not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

Iamsterdam scraper — technical specifications

Everything supported by our iamsterdam.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for event calendars and map layers
Supported
Multi-language extraction
Support for EN, NL, DE, and FR localisations
Supported
Coordinate extraction
Latitude and longitude captured from map payloads
Supported
Event diffing
Hash-based change detection for agenda updates
Supported
Residential proxies
NL-based IP rotation to avoid rate limiting
Supported
City Card tracking
Boolean flags for venues included in the official pass
Supported
User accounts / Saved itineraries
Personalised user profiles and saved trip plans
Partial
B2B partner portal
Gated access for official tourism partners and API endpoints
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the extraction

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration and deduplication. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering and interactive map payload interception.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across NL regions. Rotation happens per-request to prevent rate limiting from municipal firewalls.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested arrays
CSV
Flat file with typed columns
XLS
Excel compatible format for business teams
Parquet
Columnar format for data warehouses
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery
Webhook
HTTP POST per record
API
REST endpoints for on-demand queries
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset
Snowflake
Stage + COPY INTO workflow
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About iamsterdam.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Iamsterdam legal?

Scraping publicly available municipal and tourism information is generally permissible. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated event, venue, and expat data. We do not extract personal data or circumvent authentication walls.

Can you handle the dynamic event calendar?

Yes. We use Playwright to execute the JavaScript required to load pagination, date filters, and category selections, ensuring no events are missed.

Do you extract data in English or Dutch?

We can target any supported localisation on the site. Most clients request the English (EN) or Dutch (NL) versions, but we can extract both simultaneously and map them to a unified schema.

How frequently can the event agenda be updated?

We typically configure event pipelines to run daily or weekly, capturing new additions and flagging cancelled or rescheduled events via our change detection system.

Can you extract venue coordinates?

Yes. While coordinates are not always visible in plain text, we intercept the interactive map data payloads to extract precise latitude and longitude for venues and attractions.

Do you track City Card inclusions?

Yes. We monitor the City Card sections to flag which venues offer free entry or specific percentage discounts, tracking validity dates and terms.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start with a defined category set (e.g., all events and museums) with weekly delivery. Contact us for a scoped quote based on your volume requirements.

Can I request a sample dataset?

Yes. We provide a sample run of up to 100 events or venues during the scoping process so you can validate the schema and field completeness before committing.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=iamsterdam.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off venue export or a continuous event agenda feed — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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