Web Scraper to Avoid Crowds


My neighborhood is a great place to live. A great place, that is, until a concert or baseball game finishes at Kyocera Dome and the streets, restaurants, and grocery stores are flooded by rivers of people. 

In an attempt to combat this issue, I wrote a Google Apps Script that will scrape the Kyocera Dome monthly schedule and create google calendar events for each event. At least this way I can try to avoid going to the supermarket when I know it’s going to be a problem. 

I’ve definitely done more useful things with programming, but this was deeply, deeply satisfying. If, for some reason, you also have a problem with Kyocera Dome and want to subscribe to the calendar, you can find it here.

If you happen to live near an arena and want to write your own version, you can find the code on my github