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Show HN: Built a site to find London's best art exhibitions

22 points by bozkan 2y ago

I live in London, and I got tired of endlessly searching for things to do every weekend, I struggle to make good plans (which my wife isn’t happy about). We like most seeing new exhibitions etc, and I hate Timeout London as it’s full of crap and restaurant promos imho. I decided to scrape all exhibition, museum event pages with help of AI, and automated it. Built a website, which lists live art events and exhibitions (only in London for now) and wanted to share it with you. Hope you find it useful, and please let me know if I missed any places (which I’m sure I did)

tene80i 2y ago
Very cool! Can you share more about how you built it? I’ve seen a lot of skepticism about AI in scraping but this seems to work well.
- bozkan 2y ago
  I'm glad you liked it! I asked ChatGPT to give me the URLs of exhibition directories of London's best museums and exhibitions. Then followed a content-based approach using BeautifulSoup and OpenAI GPT-4o structured outputs, targeting what kind of info I wanted to scrape: link, date, event title etc. I was lucky that most museum websites were easy to scrape. Unfortunately it didn't work great for all of them, there I did some manual touches.
camrush 2y ago
slick design mate, and quite useful! I live in London too. You can add Victoria Miro, an art gallery close to Angel.
- bozkan 2y ago
  oh thanks! I'm adding it now :)
kabero 2y ago
hmm simple but interesting, any plans for other cities/countries?
- bozkan 2y ago
  thank you! not now, but I will later. Maybe I can focus only on London and add other verticals, like concerts etc.
acomjean 2y ago
I like it. Though It seems to pick up other cities as well (I saw one NYC one Paris). Eg: https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2025/bennett-miller/ https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2025/bennett-miller/
- bozkan 2y ago
  thanks a lot for noticing it! one of the cons of web scraping, I should've checked.
kmos17 2y ago
Great job, love the simplicity. On mobile would be nice if the choice of places was collapsible or maybe in a modal? Another place to add is Camden Art Center https://camdenartcentre.org https://camdenartcentre.org
- bozkan 2y ago
  oh thank you, great feedback! Tbh I haven't checked that much on mobile, left all the design to AI :) but that's correct, on mobile it takes too much space. Adding Camden Art Center now.

22 points by bozkan 2y ago

tene80i 2y ago

Very cool! Can you share more about how you built it? I’ve seen a lot of skepticism about AI in scraping but this seems to work well.

bozkan 2y ago
I'm glad you liked it! I asked ChatGPT to give me the URLs of exhibition directories of London's best museums and exhibitions. Then followed a content-based approach using BeautifulSoup and OpenAI GPT-4o structured outputs, targeting what kind of info I wanted to scrape: link, date, event title etc. I was lucky that most museum websites were easy to scrape. Unfortunately it didn't work great for all of them, there I did some manual touches.

camrush 2y ago

slick design mate, and quite useful! I live in London too. You can add Victoria Miro, an art gallery close to Angel.

bozkan 2y ago
oh thanks! I'm adding it now :)

kabero 2y ago

hmm simple but interesting, any plans for other cities/countries?

bozkan 2y ago
thank you! not now, but I will later. Maybe I can focus only on London and add other verticals, like concerts etc.

acomjean 2y ago

I like it. Though It seems to pick up other cities as well (I saw one NYC one Paris). Eg: https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2025/bennett-miller/ https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2025/bennett-miller/

bozkan 2y ago
thanks a lot for noticing it! one of the cons of web scraping, I should've checked.

kmos17 2y ago

Great job, love the simplicity. On mobile would be nice if the choice of places was collapsible or maybe in a modal? Another place to add is Camden Art Center https://camdenartcentre.org https://camdenartcentre.org

bozkan 2y ago
oh thank you, great feedback! Tbh I haven't checked that much on mobile, left all the design to AI :) but that's correct, on mobile it takes too much space. Adding Camden Art Center now.