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I always thought scraping was a fun idea, I just couldn't find the right use-case for it. I'm not a sports guy, and the big sites have pretty extensive API's. S

by Pigo 7y ago

I always thought scraping was a fun idea, I just couldn't find the right use-case for it. I'm not a sports guy, and the big sites have pretty extensive API's. Something music related would be of interest to me, but I can already get updates on events like concerts (since the monopolies make a fortune selling tickets). I'm not sure what could be useful.

bhousel 7y ago
We can use your help mapping all the businesses of the world! https://www.alltheplaces.xyz/ https://www.alltheplaces.xyz/
- Pigo 7y ago
  Interesting, I'll check that out.
TrickyRick 7y ago
I build https://awardfares.com https://awardfares.com together with a friend which scrapes airlines' award seat availability. Airlines' websites are horrible from a UX perspective so scraping the data and presenting it in a better way was a pretty obvious use case.
- iso1631 7y ago
  No British Airways? A quick look shows a lot of award availability to China for some reason...
  - TrickyRick 7y ago
    It's coming in the next couple of weeks! Both me and my co-founder had Star Alliance frequent flyer programmes so that's what we focused on first.
city41 7y ago
I once scraped job sites to get a mile high sense of the tech industries in cities I was considering moving to. EDIT: and to add, I've always dreamed of a website that gathered job, rent, entertainment, etc data on cities you're interested in to help figure out where are good places to move to. A site like that would have to be pretty much entirely built from scraping.