Interfaces
retrofinder collects retro fairs, collector meet-ups and conventions, plus permanent retro venues in Germany: museums, arcades, dealers, clubs. The data belongs to WOLFSOFT GmbH and is available as an open data source — for your own applications, analyses, and for AI systems that answer questions about the retro scene.
Licence
The data is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). The condition is attribution to retrofinder.de (WOLFSOFT). Full text on the licence page.
Personal contact details aren’t covered by the licence. Named contacts with an email address and phone number appear in the JSON responses but are excluded from the licence — details on the licence page. They’re left out of the text versions and feeds entirely. Company and venue addresses are unproblematic.
Endpoints
All endpoints answer GET requests without a login and return JSON — except the two calendar endpoints, which return text/calendar. A {slug} stands for the respective short address from the list.
| Endpoint | Returns |
|---|---|
/api/events | List of all published events (retro fairs, meet-ups, conventions). |
/api/events/ics | All events as an iCalendar feed to subscribe to (returns text/calendar, not JSON). |
/api/events/{slug} | Detail data for a single event. |
/api/events/{slug}/ics | This event as an iCalendar file to download. |
/api/events/{slug}/videos | YouTube videos linked to this event. |
/api/standorte | List of all permanent venues (museums, arcades, clubs). |
/api/standorte/{slug} | Detail data for a single venue. |
/api/veranstalter | List of all organisers. |
/api/veranstalter/{slug} | Detail data for an organiser, including their series and events. |
/api/reihen/{slug} | Detail data for an event series (e.g. a recurring fair). |
/api/haendler | List of all retro dealers. |
/api/foren | List of all retro forums. |
/api/zeitschriften | List of all retro magazines. |
Example calls
curl https://retrofinder.de/api/events curl https://retrofinder.de/api/events/ics curl https://retrofinder.de/api/events/gamescom-2026-retro-area curl https://retrofinder.de/api/events/gamescom-2026-retro-area/ics curl https://retrofinder.de/api/events/gamescom-2026-retro-area/videos curl https://retrofinder.de/api/standorte curl https://retrofinder.de/api/standorte/wolfsoft curl https://retrofinder.de/api/veranstalter curl https://retrofinder.de/api/veranstalter/wolfsoft curl https://retrofinder.de/api/reihen/spiele-konsolenboerse-montabaur curl https://retrofinder.de/api/haendler curl https://retrofinder.de/api/foren curl https://retrofinder.de/api/zeitschriften
Rate limit
The endpoints are built for people and polite crawlers: they allow 60 requests per minute per IP address. If you systematically need more, get in touch at retrofinder@wolfsoft.de.
Further access
- /api/openapi.json — the schema file (OpenAPI 3.1) with every field.
- /api/events/ics — calendar of all events to subscribe to.
- /feed.atom — newly added events as an Atom feed.
- /termine.md — all events as a text version.
- /standorte.md — all venues as a text version.
- /llms-full.txt — the entire dataset as text for language models.
Every detail page already has a text version at the same address with .md appended, for example /event/<slug>.md.