glasgow.games

Landing page for the Glasgow gamedev community, with Netlify Functions scraping from Meetup.com
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Astro
TypeScript
Sass
Netlify
Figma
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I built a simple site for a friend. There’s a bit more than meets the eye…

It’s statically generated with Astro, but the event listings are updated automatically at build time.

There’s a scheduled function on Netlify that uses Puppeteer.

Every day, it launches a headless Chrome instance on AWS, and pulls the list of events from the event company.

Filters them and uploads the data to JSONBin, and then triggers a rebuild with a webhook.

Why not just use their API?

The API costs £50 a month! Had to be creative…