The AI built his council planning scraper, its dashboard and its data interface

Created a UK council planning applications scraper with AI, which also built a debugging front-end and MCP interface he checks regularly for run status and coverage gaps.

How it works

He creates the scraper with AI
The AI also builds a debugging front-end and a data interface
He checks run status and coverage gaps regularly

Why it’s worth knowing

Council planning data is public and nearly unusable; the agent made it checkable.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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