Ticketmaster
ticketmaster.com · E-commerce / D2C Retail modeTransactional
Overall = mean of Interrupt Score 0 and Machine-Readability 15 → 8 / 100. The badge is set by the Interrupt Score alone — how scoring works.
Confidence: Provisional (0.55) — Based on Tier 0/1 evidence only (passive checks, no live transaction attempt) — treat the number as a triage signal, not a verified outcome.
This tool doesn't involve holding funds or assets, so custody risk doesn't apply.
Checkout flow not yet probed (Tier 2). For a transactional listing the purchase/checkout path is where interrupts actually bite — this score reflects only what passive and signup-level checks could observe, not a verified purchase.
Machine-Readability Score
Four check groups, equal weight: machine interfaces (OpenAPI, MCP server, llms.txt), browsing efficiency, element discoverability, and discovery/agent access (retrieval-bot robots.txt access, sitemap, schema.org). Each check is tagged with how strong the real-world evidence is that it changes agent behavior — proven, plausible, or emerging — grades are honesty labels, they never weight the score. A separate signal about ease of integration — it never enters the Interrupt Score or badge above.
Findings
How scoring works →Interrupt tier: Blocked — derived from 3 findings; interrupt score 0 / 100. It alone drives the badge above; the headline Overall score blends it 50/50 with Machine-Readability.
Every tool starts at 100. Each interrupt found subtracts a penalty of base weight × timing × hardness × evidence — the multiplier values below come from the same rubric tables the score is computed with, so the arithmetic in this matrix reproduces the number exactly.
| Interrupt found | Base weight | × Timing | × Hardness | × Evidence | = Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting score | 100 | ||||
| ToS clause banning automated/bot accessPolicy (ToS / AUP)Ticketmaster's Purchase Policy / Terms of Use explicitly prohibit using any automated device, software, bot, or purchasing service to search, reserve, or buy tickets. | 9 | ×8every transaction | ×2.5hard | ×0.6Tier 0 (passive scan) | −108 |
| CAPTCHA / bot-challengeEvery transactionBot-challenge / verified-fan queue widget detected on the checkout and high-demand queue page for every purchase attempt. | 6 | ×8every transaction | ×2.5hard | ×0.8Tier 1 (unauth probe) | −96 |
| Email OTP verificationSignupAccount creation requires email OTP verification before any purchase can be initiated. | 4 | ×1one-time setup | ×2.5hard | ×0.8Tier 1 (unauth probe) | −8 |
| Total penalty | −212 | ||||
| Interrupt Score = 100 − 212 = −112 → floored at 0 (the score clamps to 0–100) | 0 | ||||
Why this tool is Blocked
- ToS bot-ban — the vendor’s terms explicitly prohibit automated/bot access.
- A hard blocker recurs on every single transaction.
Each of these disqualifiers forces the Blocked badge on its own, regardless of the numeric score — and independently, the penalties above already floor the score at 0. No amount of otherwise-clean behavior can average a categorical blocker away.
Checked — nothing found
A check only turns green when a probe tier capable of detecting that interrupt actually ran and found nothing. Not tested ≠ clean.
- SMS / phone OTP verificationNone found — checked at Tier 1 (unauth probe)
- Mandatory phone verification callNone found — checked at Tier 1 (unauth probe)
- Mailed physical code (postal)None found — checked at Tier 1 (unauth probe)
- “Contact sales” wall (no self-serve path)None found — checked at Tier 0 (passive scan) + Tier 1 (unauth probe)
- Manual approval queueNone found — checked at Tier 1 (unauth probe)
- Mandatory redirect to vendor’s own siteNone found — checked at Tier 1 (unauth probe)
- SSO-only signup, no API-key issuanceNone found — checked at Tier 1 (unauth probe)
- Rate-limit-triggered manual reviewNone found — checked at Tier 1 (unauth probe)
- One-time account / payment-method provisioningNone found — checked at Tier 1 (unauth probe)
- Identity / KYC verificationNone found — checked at Tier 0 (passive scan) + Tier 1 (unauth probe)
- Crypto wallet / key-custody setupNone found — checked at Tier 1 (unauth probe)