City-wide indie cinema listings
An LLM-heavy pipeline scrapes small cinema websites, cleans and classifies showtimes, and builds one listing for the city.
- Agent or tool
- Custom agent
- Topic
- Research & Data
- Reported on
- Hacker News
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
Research is mostly gathering, cleaning and comparing. Handing that groundwork to an agent leaves the person with the part that needs judgment: deciding what the findings mean. It is one of 71 sightings filed under Research & Data on Agent Sightings (number 66 by interest), and one of 183 involving Custom agent.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into your own agent or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Visit each cinema page in this list, extract film title, showtime, and venue into a table, and flag pages you couldn't parse.
Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44405067. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.
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