Mixed
The actual bottleneck isn't code tbh, it's that every (snowflake) council needs like 30+ minutes of investigation before you can even get going
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2.6M decisions
In the thread “Scraping 241 UK council planning portals – 2.6M decisions so far”, replying to this comment
Helped: Claude handles portal inspection, form analysis, and config loop writing.
Got in the way: Portals are broken, migrated, or dead, requiring manual investigation.
… Claude handles most of the look at the portal, work out the search form, write the config loop. The actual bottleneck isn't code tbh, it's that every (snowflake) council needs like 30+ minutes of investigation before you can even get going, and a chunk deadend because the portal's broken or migrated. I already hit three this morning. …