Find My Parking Cops uses data scraped from City website to track parking fines in real time — entire website dedicated to helping San Francisco motorists avoid parking tickets goes live
Riley Walz has created Find My Parking Cops, a website that scrapes real-time parking ticket data from the City of San Francisco website, helping motorists avoid fines. The site displays active officers, ticket values, and detailed citation information. Walz encountered roadblocks like the sheer volume of tickets but devised workarounds to track tickets accurately. While not illegal, the project highlights the ease of data gathering online and raises privacy concerns. The City of San Francisco needs to secure its ticket system while maintaining easy access for citizens to pay fines.
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