There's APIs like https://www.internationalshowtimes.com that give you all that data for many countries. Have used it in the past and it works well, with direct booking deeplinks to the cinemas (select seat, next, pay, done).
Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
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Re: Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
#12is it viable to build a product on top of scraping? seems like unpredictably any day you could find yourself out of sync or with no data because of infrequent crawls or dom changes or bot challenges and then you have to play cat and mouse
There's entire industries built on top of scraping, something changes, you adapt. In this case where the data is actually used to drive more traffic to the cinemas there will be little protection. Very different to Linkedin protecting their user submitted data as that's their value.
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#13but you still can't see where a particular movie is playing (not just in your city), which would be the entire point
Is the use case of "people who are looking for a city to drive to to watch a movie" really that big?
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#14Glorious. I vote for IMDB to be deshitified next!
Re: Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
#15Who else noticed the pointers websocket for displaying the mouse pointers of other readers?
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#16but you still can't see where a particular movie is playing (not just in your city), which would be the entire point
Is the use case of "people who are looking for a city to drive to to watch a movie" really that big?
Seems like it would be useful for movies that are in limited release.
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#17This is amazing! Have the same problem in the UK - would love a site like this.
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#18Congrats for building such a great site. I'm curious where OP is pulling the data from. I particularly like the Citydome [1] in Darmstadt, which is often showing movies in original language.
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#19Ok, but a very interesting part is missing: how did you scrape the data in the first place?
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#20Who else noticed the pointers websocket for displaying the mouse pointers of other readers?
I hate that for some reason. Feels intrusive in a weird way to me.