Building a Concert Discovery Tool with Spotify and Venue Scrapers
I kept missing shows I would have gone to. The data was public, but checking it required a weird amount of manual attention: venue calendars, Spotify history, ticket prices, neighborhoods, and a final “would I actually leave the apartment for this?” filter. So I had Molty, my Telegram assistant, build a weekly concert digest. It wrote all of the code on March 29: the Spotify login, a scraper for each venue, and the scoring. My part was taste: where I go, what I’d pay, how far I’d walk, and telling it when a pick was wrong. Every Monday morning it checks SF venues, matches artists against my Spotify library, and sends a ranked list of shows. ...