Collection of stories about useful scraper robots 🤖

I would never use the typical kind of shared bike that you can just leave anywhere because AFAIK those are exclusively for Google pawns. But the kind that have stations do not need an app. So I scraped all the bicycle station locations into a db & used an openstreetmaps API to grab the elevation of each station. If the destination station was a higher elevation than the source station, my lazy ass would take the tram. Hey, gimme a break.. these shared bikes are heavy as fuck because they’re made to take abuse from the general public.

It was fun to just cruise these muscle bikes downhill. I was probably a big contributor of high bicycle availability at low elevations and shortages in high places. The bike org then started a policy to give people a bonus credit if they park in a high station to try to incentivize more people going uphill.