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by imdsm 49 days ago
How long did the scraping take you to build?
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Around four months part-time. The bulk was the first 6 to 8 weeks building the three main scrapers (Idox, Northgate, Ocellaweb). After that, councils on those platforms are mostly config. The rest has been a long tail of bespoke portals, each taking anywhere from an evening to "give up and revisit and repeat".