We're aiming to solve the following problems:
) The web doesn't offer a place where you can see all events in a target area displayed nicely in a list or on a map.
) Using Google to manually search for events is inefficient.
) Eventful.com and Eventbrite.com are not comprehensive.
Potential: If there's a single tool that allows you to discover any event that has been posted onto the web this would be the place to advertise events and connect other services as well. The ability to grab all events via the Facebook Graph API and a custom-made RESTful API make it possible to scrape the web entirely and pull all events into one place. In addition to this, it's very easy to allow users to submit new events within a single application interface, and utilizing the backwards compatibility of the Graph API to post events to Facebook or the RESTful API to post events to a website would allow a single Event Discovery Tool to really work and make an impact.
WEventful does just this:
- Scrapes Facebook for events using Graph API based on name of city and adds these events to the map based on users filtering their searches.
- Custom RESTful API available online is ready to tap into so that anyone with a website can POST their events through our API making them available to the Google Maps API that is running the Google Map on our site.
- Scrapes Eventbrite and Eventful for their listed events and pulls them in based on city name and zipcode.
- Clearly lists all events in a list view, or marks them in a Google Map View.
- Allows users to add their own events based on zipcode.
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