Hi Nancy, The API won't give you an error message if you provide a duplicate venue. At most, it should just quietly give you the ID of the one we already have. (Even that only happens in the case of exact duplicates.) Errors should only occur if you're missing a crucial field (string="Missing parameter") or provide invalid data (string="Unable to add venue") for the country or region/state.
I just added one of your examples via the API, and it went in without an error: http://eventful.com/berkeley/venues/diversityworks-worshops-/V0-001-004805903-4 The API parameters I used were: http://api.eventful.com/rest/venues/new?...&name=DiversityWorks%20Worshops&country=United%20States&address=800%20Heinz%20Ave.%2014&city=Berkeley®ion=CA&postal_code=94710 If that's different than what you tried, please send me the parameters you used and I'll test with those. If it was the same, then let me know and I'll look into the possibility of a temporary error over the weekend. Thanks, ~chris On Jan 16, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Nancy Tubbs wrote: > Hi - I'm starting to get the error message "unable to add venue", when > previously venues would go in without any issues whatsoever, even if there's > a similar venue entry already. Often venues that come back in search results > are incomplete or wrong, so I like to submit a correct entry if necessary. > > Examples: > The Nexus, 1414 Harbor Way South. Ste 1010, , Point Richmond, CA, 94804 > DiversityWorks Worshops, 800 Heinz Ave. #14, , Berkeley, CA, 94710 > > A search for them turns up nothing, even variations on the name, or using > just the street address. But I cannot add them, at least via the API.
