Toronto Fringe 2025 performance data scraper

Scraper for show info and performance times on the Toronto Fringe Theatre Festival 2025 website. Used for https://github.com/linusrachlis/fringr2-fe.

Running

Have PHP >=7.

php scrape.php # Dumps everything to stdout (operational info and JSON output)
php scrape.php out.json # Gives operation info to stdout and JSON output to a file

Copy the contents of out.json and use it to replace the value of showsData in fringr2-fe/src/data/shows.ts.

Generating URLs list

1. Visit https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/shows.
2. Use the "More info" buttons on this page to generate a list of all show URLs. Open the Javascript console and run something like:

   console.log(Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".more-link a")).map(e => e.href).join('\n'))

3. Copy the output and use it to replace the contents of play_urls.txt.