{"id":41096,"date":"2026-05-22T01:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/i-can-scrape-aggregate-pretty-much-any-fragmented-public-data-what-datasets-are-missing\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T01:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:27:08","slug":"i-can-scrape-aggregate-pretty-much-any-fragmented-public-data-what-datasets-are-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/i-can-scrape-aggregate-pretty-much-any-fragmented-public-data-what-datasets-are-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can Scrape\/aggregate Pretty Much Any Fragmented Public Data. What Datasets Are Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I built a large-scale scraping system that can extract data from thousands of sources simultaneously, bypass anti-bot protection, and convert unstructured formats (PDFs, scanned docs, complex HTML) into clean structured datasets.<\/p>\n<p>What public datasets should exist but don\u2019t because:<\/p>\n<pre><code>\u2022 Data is scattered across too many jurisdictions (every state\/county has their own portal) \u2022 No one has aggregated it yet \u2022 It\u2019s in PDFs or hard-to-parse formats \u2022 Sites actively block automated access <\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Not looking to sell\u2014genuinely trying to understand what public data would be valuable if someone aggregated it. If there\u2019s demand, I might build and release it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Sufficient-War-4020\"> \/u\/Sufficient-War-4020 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1tk18o9\/i_can_scrapeaggregate_pretty_much_any_fragmented\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1tk18o9\/i_can_scrapeaggregate_pretty_much_any_fragmented\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-41096 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='41096' data-nonce='bc39e8310e' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-41096 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-41096 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I built a large-scale scraping system that can extract data from thousands of sources simultaneously, bypass anti-bot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}