Some uptown gigs are returning a non utf-8 &/or empty title:

Error From Facebook

Culprit Gig

Possible Solution

Consider solving this at a holistic level. If title is empty before insert, either:

• Don't insert OR
• Replace with placeholder title such as "Unknown Show Title"

Run every 1-2days to collect new gigs

Perhaps we could turn this into a scheduled lambda?

https://blog.vikfand.com/posts/scrapy-fargate-sls-guide/
https://medium.com/@kagemusha_/scraping-on-a-schedule-with-aws-lambda-and-cloudwatch-caf65bc38848

The URL collected for both the gig & image are often invalid, but not 100% of the time. Eg:

Correctly scraped gig:

https://jazzlab.club/1849-anton-delecca-quintet-3

Incorrectly scraped gig:

https://jazzlab.club/1840-barney-mcall-9

The following spiders are all no longer working. The reason appears to be different for each site.

• Open Studio
• Bar 303
• Uptown
  • Addressed in #8
• Brunswick Green
  • Addressed in #7
• Spotted Mallard
  • No longer a music venue :(

A tonne of the awesome gigs around town are only posted as facebook events. Build a spider to scrape that info.