Scrape Apartments.com with BeautifulSoup, find use Google Distance Matrix/Places/Geocode APIs to get commute info
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Backend for data is Google Sheets (using gspread python library to access, push data). Links, info scraped from Apartments.com, and info retreived from Google APIs is stored here
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Given an apartments.com url, uses BeautifulSoup to scrape rent info, beds, baths, address, lease length, and more.
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Given an address, uses Google's Distance Matrix Api to find commute times to work in morning and afternoon
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Given an address, uses Google's Places Api to find nearest metro stop, and Distance Matrix to find commute time to metro by walking.
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You'll need a Google API key an developer account to access Sheets API, and the Maps APIs