Add your suggestions for sites that it would be fun to scrape to this list:

Places

• GeoURL
• http://www.panoramio.com

People

• Friendster

Movies

• Netflix
• Movie2B
• IMDB (Internet Movie Database)

Books

• WorldCat.org
• Amazon.com (books)

Music

• allofmp3
• Amazon.com (CD's) - done by DAN THE MAN
• MusicBrainz low hanging fruit as they have XML links (under details) and a XML webservice. They used to have an RDF dump but abandoned it for XML :-(
• Last.FM

Note: iTunes cannot be scraped because it's encrypted and only iTunes can get to it

Food

• http://www.woochi.com/ (wine)
• http://www.allrecipes.com/
• http://www.ibiblio.org/oscookbook/index.htm - the open source cookbook. it's available as a pdf and a textfile.
• recipes??

Libraries

• http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
• http://catalog.loc.gov/ MARC21 records available as xml. See this article for piggy bank references.
• http://www.wikipedia.org
• http://www.gmail.com

Desktop

• Firefox file browsing (e.g., by getting file:/// pages' selection source and name, file-size, date, time, etc.)

See also

• Interesting Datasets