TripAdvisor Scraper

Scrap milions of hotel reviews.

About • Content • Getting Started • How to use • License

About

This project is part of an academic monography developed to collect a corpus to analyse statistical distribuitions of diacritics errors in european languages with high accent frequency and its comparison with brazilian portuguese.

Content

• Scrapers written in Python3

  • Italian
  • Turkish

• Scrapers written in NodeJS

  • Hungarian
  • French

Getting Started

To clone and run this application, you'll need:

• Git
  
• Node 8+ If you have different Node versions make sure to install using nvm.
  
• Conda for Python3

How To Use

From your command line:

# Clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/rvitorgomes/textCrawler tripadvisor-crawler

# Go into the repository
$ cd tripadvisor-crawler

# Check for dependencies
$ conda --version; python --version; node --version; npm --version

# Install dependencies
$ npm install

# Change directory
$ cd tcc

# Create and activate a new conda environment
$ conda create -n crawler; activate crawler

# Install scrapy
$ conda install scrapy

# Run some crawler and watch out the magic
$ scrapy runspider tcc/italian.py

Common Errors

Check if you have the latest WebDriver for Firefox (geckodriver.exe) inside the project root, otherwise you can download from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

License

This project is licensed under Unlicense license.
Not for commercial usage.
For academic usage/citation ask me for instructions.

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GitHub @rvitorgomes
Linkedin Rubens Gomes
Email rvitorgomes@gmail.com