Scraping saved untold lives this past spring when large healthcare providers (i.e. Walgreens & CVS) opted to hide their vaccination appointments behind redundant survey questions. This made it more difficult to quickly ascertain when an appointment slot would become available. The elderly were less likely to look more than once a day, delaying vaccines for those that needed it the most.

GoodRX built a scraping system that tapped into all the major providers. Thats what a group of vaccine hunters in my state used to get appointments for folks that had tried but were unable to.