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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.

I build 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.

No British Airways?

A quick look shows a lot of award availability to China for some reason...

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.

We can use your help mapping all the businesses of the world!

https://www.alltheplaces.xyz/

Interesting, I'll check that out.