I scraped all of Fandango's movie listings

I can vouch for their blurb on CMX in Miami. Truly rapacious experience. $28 and the popcorn isn't free, and service was awful (food delivered in the last 15 minutes of a 2-hour movie after ordering before the movie started). /rant

This is really interesting, even as someone who is not from the US.<p>I find it astonishing that it&#x27;s only 13 bucks for a movie ticket over there (around 11 euros). Here in Finland tickets can easily cost over 20e if you see a movie on the weekend.

Is this the same technology that was used by Yipit to aggregate daily deals back in the Groupon&#x2F;Living Social days? What languages do you support and how are you different from scrapinghub.com ?

Great piece of natural content marketing and demonstration of product. Keep it up.

Is the author aware that the prices depend on the day of the week? Competition in Utah has driven all the big theaters to charge only $5 for all movies every Tuesday, making the movies cheaper than even Wyoming. I&#x27;m curious to learn whether the same thing has happened elsewhere.

very cool! I always wanted to know these things more often<p>I&#x27;ve done the SF&#x2F;NYC&#x2F;Miami circuit, completely skipping the heartland like everyone else, and these ticket prices are baked into my budget.<p>Oh you want 3D&#x2F;Special Sound System&#x2F;random perk? Prepare for $22 and I&#x27;m okay with that<p>For the actual residents of these cities, there isn&#x27;t often a place for you to watch something you chose to see in a loud usually spacious environment. These are still undervalued entertainment experiences, amongst the sea of entertainment choices, for actual city residents.<p>I wonder what the industry&#x27;s own pricing models show

Is this a violation of Fandango&#x27;s TOS?

Tangent, but I wish someone would disrupt the movie ticket industry. Fandango&#x27;s mobile app is one of the worst apps that I&#x27;ve ever seen: it&#x27;s very unresponsive and full of advertisements, spams and interstitials I do not care about. And yet it&#x27;s the only way to buy tickets in my area.<p>I mean I&#x27;m already using the app to spend money, why not offer me a good experience instead of bombarding me with crappy ads?

You might want to clean up that messy prototype code. It&#x27;s annoying to have to scroll horizontally and the nesting level is just insane.

How did you verify that you got all the theaters?<p>Having looked at the code in regards to only using zip codes that end in 1 in order to eliminate overlapping neighborhoods, it seems like you missed some.<p>Why not grab all of them and clean the data? Maybe it is too intensive, but insisting you have &quot;all of Fandango&#x27;s movie listings&quot; is actually false.

This is a really cool example of ReadyPipe - It&#x27;s a great demo of scraping a site that&#x27;s got some intent not to be scrapeable :D<p>On the other hand, your data just seems to follow <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1138&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1138&#x2F;</a> - What happens to the prices if you adjust for cost of living index? What about if you adjust just for population? It looks to me just like a Cost-of-Living heatmap.

&gt;&gt; Only cities with 500,000 residents or more (per Wikipedia) were included in this analysis<p>So 35 cities? Interesting read none the less. Good to see independent theaters are still doing well.

Why don’t you summarise what you found in the title, and give me an indication of whether the I should read your article or not