Gathers rent information from Zillow via BeautifulSoup and inputs rent information into a Google Form using Selenium. The example shown is of rental apartments in San Francisco, California.
Features:
- Uses BeautifulSoup to get renting information from Zillow and scrapes all listed property information
- Uses Selenium to place all property Zillow information to a Google Form and submit information
- Uses Google Forms to store information
- Easily transfer Google Form information to Google Sheets to easily apply Data Science
How to run:
- Download repository
- Go to Zillow and select an area you are interested in getting data from. When found,
copy the url and update
ZILLOW_LINKinmain.py - Create a Google Form with 6 short response questions. In the order of
address,price per month,bedrooms,bathrooms,square footage,property link. For more info see screenshots below. - Copy the newly created Google Form url and update
GOOGLE_FORMinmain.py - Open downloaded repository with a command line interface
- run
pip install selenium - run
python main.py - Script start and windows will open. If an error occurs, try running the program again as Zillow sometime responds with garbage
Program Output:
Google Form Example:
Converted to Google Sheets:
