I built https://seattle-movies.innocence.com/ out of similar motivations, although I limited my focus to arthouse/indie movie theaters. I also produce an .ics calendar feed which for me is the most useful feature; I like scanning upcoming movies on a calendar app I already use all the time.
No DB under the hood, just a nightly scrape and process. Works fine. Sometimes the format changes and updates break until I fix them; not a big deal and the code is available in case I ever get bored.
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I built https://seattle-movies.innocence.com/ out of similar motivations, although I limited my focus to arthouse/indie movie theaters. I also produce an .ics calendar feed which for me is the most useful feature; I like scanning upcoming movies on a calendar app I already use all the time.
No DB under the hood, just a nightly scrape and process. Works fine. Sometimes the format changes and updates break until I fix them; not a big deal and the code is available in case I ever get bored.
https://github.com/BryantD/film-calendar for the curious. It’s intended to be easy to adapt to another city.