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The hard thing about this is fragmentation. Building a web scraper for events means extracting information from a wide variety of non-standard websites. Even
by brucephillips 9y ago
The hard thing about this is fragmentation. Building a web scraper for events means extracting information from a wide variety of non-standard websites. Even Eventbrite aggregates events manually, I think.
- icebraining 9y agoYeah. I want to get a daily email with the day's screenings from a single place (my local cinema museum) and I ended up having to extract data from their monthly PDFs.
- f_allwein 9y agoYes, except you'd only have to do it once for each entity (e.g. chain of cinemas). Plus, this should not be rocket science, so maybe you can crowd source extractors...