We built an API for events, places, and local news in Barcelona and Madrid

Building a local API for events, places, and news in Barcelona and Madrid GitHub Most city products run into the same problem sooner or later. You want to answer simple questions like: What is happening today? What is near these coordinates? Which places belong to this category? Which local news is still actually relevant? But once you start building, local data is rarely clean enough. Events, places, and news often live in separate systems, use different filters, and do not map well to the way people actually explore a city. That is one of the reasons we started opening up the data layer behind DondeGo. DondeGo is a local media and city guide focused on Barcelona and Madrid. The editorial side is built around practical discovery: things to do, places to know, and local news that matters in city life. Recently, we have been turning more of that into an API that can be reused in real products. What the API is trying to solve The goal is not to build a huge generic directory. The goal is