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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

439 points david927 | 4 comments | 29 Jun 25 20:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.954s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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Joeboy ◴[30 Jun 25 07:34 UTC] No.44420489[source]▶
I just took a fortnight off work with the intent of getting away from my laptop, but accidentally ended up making a listings site for London's independent / arts cinemas. As far as I can tell no such thing currently exists, and I feel like it should.

Obviously the main thing is getting the listings data, which as far as I know (mostly) isn't readily available any other way that scraping the cinemas' websites, for which I set this up as a separate-ish project[1]

[0] https://filmhose.uk

[1] https://github.com/Joeboy/cinescrapers

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darajava ◴[30 Jun 25 10:39 UTC] No.44421616[source]▶
Nice! No Garden Cinema? It's the best cinema in London! (And their website is great, I would imagine easy to scrape)
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Joeboy ◴[30 Jun 25 11:00 UTC] No.44421752[source]▶
It's on the quite long list[0] that I haven't got around to yet. I'll try to get it done today.

[0] https://github.com/Joeboy/cinescrapers

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1. darajava ◴[30 Jun 25 15:49 UTC] No.44424722[source]▶
I've added a PR for this - https://github.com/Joeboy/cinescrapers/pull/4

Hope you didn't start on it!

(By the way, it wasn't too easy to scrape in the end…)

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2. Joeboy ◴[30 Jun 25 15:55 UTC] No.44424779[source]▶
On the one hand that's awesome and it's really great to have a contribution! On the other hand, I unfortunately just added it myself. But it's there now, anyway :-)

More PRs very welcome if you're in the mood!

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3. darajava ◴[30 Jun 25 16:16 UTC] No.44425007[source]▶
Ah no/great! I would have let you know before I tried but wasn't sure how far I'd get. Glad it's there and thanks for adding it.

I'll add the Peckhamplex now.

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4. Joeboy ◴[30 Jun 25 20:05 UTC] No.44427273{3}[source]▶
Thank you so much! Just merged and deployed.