Web Scraping to Create Open Data | The Scrapinghub Blog

"Shortly after, I launched OpenBicing, an Android app for the local bike sharing system in Barcelona, together with a backend that used python-bicing. I also shared a public API that provided this information so that nobody else had to do the dirty work ever again ... To date, CityBikes is the most comprehensive and widely used open API for bike sharing information, with support for over 400 cities worldwide. Our API processes around 10 requests per second and we scrape each of the 418 feeds about every three minutes. Making our core library available for anyone to contribute has been crucial in maintaining and adding coverage for all of the supported systems ..."