I Wrote a Python Script to Find My Wife

I opened DevTools on a matrimonial site, found a clean JSON API behind the clunky UI, and built a spreadsheet in thirty lines of Python. A developer's instinct applied to arranged marriage.

Key Takeaways

A matrimonial site's clunky UI was just a slow window into a clean, paginated JSON API — visible in the browser's Network tab within seconds.
Copying the request as cURL, then wrapping it in a 30-line Python script, turned hours of clicking into a sortable CSV of profiles.
The technical part wasn't clever — it was the instinct: every developer has a version of this story where friction triggers "where's the API?" rather than "this is annoying."
No hacking involved — every profile in the CSV was publicly visible on the site. This was just a better window into data that already existed.

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