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Scrape every UK council planning portal with Claude and monitor it over MCP.

✅ He uses it to find unknown unknowns quickly while maintaining the scraper.

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Based on mootothemax on Hacker News (opens in new tab)

Who it’s for

Real estate agents, investors, property managers and renters or buyers.

Adapt it to your industry

  • Agent: listing descriptions, social posts and follow-up emails
  • Property manager: tenant question answers and maintenance logs
  • Investor: a quick deal check using public numbers

Step by step

  1. Pick one task: a listing write-up, a buyer follow-up, or a property comparison.
  2. Open ChatGPT, Claude or Grok and paste the prompt below with the property details (no private client data).
  3. Ask for 3 versions in different tones and pick the best.
  4. Check every fact (size, price, features) against your listing; AI can get numbers wrong.
  5. Save your best prompt as a template for the next listing.
  6. Track which posts or emails get replies, and ask the AI to improve the weak ones.

Ready-to-copy prompt

Using the scraper-status tool, list councils whose last run failed or returned zero results, group them by error, and propose a fix for the biggest group.

Start with AI

Opens the AI with this guide and the prompt filled in.

Open in ChatGPT (opens in new tab)Open in Claude (opens in new tab)Open in Grok (opens in new tab)
Cost
$0–20/month (free tiers or one AI plan)Our estimate
Time
2–6 weeksOur estimate

How to make money from it

Pricing idea: If you help other agents, charge per listing package (for example $50–200) or a monthly fee.

Finding your first 10 customers

  • Offer free listing write-ups to 3 agents in your office.
  • Share before/after examples on LinkedIn or Instagram.
  • Ask your brokerage to share it with the team.

Ideas, not promises. Results vary.

Details: source, numbers and tags

What they did

mootothemax built a scraper for every UK council and planning authority with Claude’s help, plus a debugging front end. On a whim he asked Claude to add an MCP interface reporting last run status, what works, and coverage gaps.

How it went

He uses it to find unknown unknowns quickly while maintaining the scraper.

Worth knowing

For scrapers, the hard part is everything around the mechanics: coverage, failures and patterns.

Difficulty
AdvancedOur rating
Time to build
Not reportedOur estimate
Monthly cost
Not reported
Revenue
Not reportedWe only show revenue the source states
Engagement
0 replies to HN commentComment in “Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?” (198 points, 201 comments) · fetched Oct 15, 2026
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Posted · Added Oct 16, 2026

Original builder recipe

  • Claude / Claude Code
  • A scraping framework
  • MCP server exposing run status
  1. Connect listings, calendar and messaging.
  2. Let the agent handle routine questions and scheduling.
  3. Keep a human on negotiations and compliance.
  4. Log every interaction.

Tags

Agent Claude
Tool MCP Python

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