A step-by-step guide to creating a travel planner with AI and location scraping.
List the essential features for your itinerary generator, such as date selection, guest counts, budget preferences, and PDF export.
Identify the AI model you will use for generating itinerary suggestions (e.g., Google Gemini 2.5 Flash).
Determine where your tool will pull location-based information from (e.g., OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, DuckDuckGo).
Consider the trade-offs between using free scraping methods and paid APIs for data retrieval.
Describe how the generated itinerary will be saved or exported as a PDF.
Brainstorm additional features like weather API integration, GPS distance filtering, or event API integration.
Detail the types of input users will provide, such as location, dates, number of adults/kids/dogs, and budget.
Think about how you might store previously scraped data or user preferences using a database.
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