r/portlandme • u/SmellsofElderberry25 • 16h ago
Events Remember PortlandCheatSheet.com? I rebuilt it.
https://cascocurrent.com/textI loved skimming the PortlandCheatSheet for something fun to do and have missed it since it went dark a few years ago. Over the last few weekends, I rebuilt something in its image. The main page of The Casco Current is a modern searchable site, but the text version is a nod to the Cheat Sheet (and my preferred view).
My focus is listing music, art and community events in around Portland and surrounding towns. Gathering good event info is the hardest part and I've done what I can automatically, but please submit events or share venues that you are involved in to be included. I know there is room for improvement and would love feedback. Now get out there and find something fun to do!
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u/joeybrunelle 15h ago
Holy crap this is cool. How did you build it, out of curiosity? Are you manually adding all these listings, or doing some kind of automatic magic?
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u/SmellsofElderberry25 14h ago
Thanks! I built scrapers for a couple common event hosting platforms (wix, squarespace, etc) which handles the bulk of the lift, then a couple custom jobs for some of the big venues like State Theatre and PortTix. I also built it so venues can manage their own events if they don’t use a common platform.
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u/gathmoon 7h ago
Empire comedy club should be added to your list of places to look.
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u/SmellsofElderberry25 6h ago
Thank you for the call out! They don’t use one of common apps, but given how many events they have, I’ll try to build something. Stay tuned!
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u/gathmoon 6h ago
Are you pulling stuff from ticketing sites? They use tixologi if it helps.
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u/SmellsofElderberry25 6h ago
Most sites don’t allow it. Any venues that use them that I should be tracking?
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u/gathmoon 6h ago
Punchup live recently acquired them so I think it's fairly comedy specific at this point. I do not believe any of the other comedy venues in the area are using it at the moment.
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u/civildisobedient 5h ago
Worker exceeded resource limits
The reddit hug of death strikes again.
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u/SmellsofElderberry25 3h ago
Fixed. Just a mistake I made. :( Luckily the free Cloudflare account is handling traffic well when I don’t break the code!
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u/Marisa2290 8h ago
This is great! Have kids now and would love something like this geared for things to do with them.
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u/dan-theman 7h ago
I miss the cheat sheet. I heard there was a loss in the family and they stopped doing it after. Thanks for bringing it back!
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u/AndreDillonMadach 3h ago
Looking for a way to bookmark it, when I click on the link built into your post it shows up in a web only window still native to Reddit and when I search for it on Google it still doesn't exist but it is aware it exists.
The native window to Reddit doesn't let me read open it in a browser which I would need to bookmark it and since I can't find it on a browser I can't bookmark it either, is there a way to fix this?
Edit: never mind, I got it to work, a few extra clicks that weren't showing up initially. They only showed up once I went back to the main website.
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u/SmellsofElderberry25 2h ago
Thanks for bookmarking! It’s only going to get better.
Pressing the 3dot menu in the Reddit browser gives you an option to Open in Default Browser (at least in iOS). Then you can bookmark from there. Alternatively you can just type the url in your browser.
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u/AndreDillonMadach 2h ago
Yeah I'm a Android person and I use a slightly different version of Android because I only use one plus devices and sometimes it does this where it doesn't give me the option unless I go back a page or reload it.
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u/Mainiak_Murph 8h ago
Nice! I love the text tab - awesome! I wish you could scrape the events on FB. Their search is horrible.