PropertyScraper

Description

Displays rental information for a given Airbnb listing url.

For usage run:

./property_scraper.py --help

Findings are stored in an SQLite database table listings with the following columns.

• url
• name
• market,
• score),
• review_count
• type
• bed
• bath
• guest
• price
• photo_url
• description
• amenities (CSV)

NOTE: It appears Airbnb will throttle results. If this occurs a warning will be printed to stderr and the scraper will quit.

Usage

Requires Python 3

./property_scraper.py "https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/14531512"
./property_scraper.py urls.txt
echo "https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/14531512" | ./property_scraper.py -

Future Improvements

• CLI flags
• Database storage
• Handle mutiple urls
• Add requirements.txt
• Proper testing
• Implement with different libraries and languages to explore performance variations
• Create Slack bot