gdziezamieszkam
"Gdziezamieszkam" is a small scrapper and frontend for searching apartments for renting in Poznań, Poland. Created out of frustration due to poor user experience while searching flats for rent using OLX or Gumtree - for example price listed there is not full price, but only money for flat owner - but while renting there're more fixed fees. It's still usable, and offer some adventages over scraped sites with offers (like OLX or Gumtree), like:
- finding real street address out of offer description text
- finding real rent price including monthly payment to the owner, housing cooperative listed separately; and deposit out of description text
- providing searchable fields like total rent price, districts or total rent price per area
- nice, fully responsive user interface integrated into SPA (no more waiting for offers!)
Most of the improvements are made only due to some simple algorythms parsing offer description and/or title - I really don't understand why those bits of information are not provided by those giants.
Legal notice
Both OLX and Gumtree's Terms of use specify that using bots to scrap their data - without their consent - is forbidden. However, under - at least - Polish law scraping publicly available data for personal use only is not forbidden. This code was created for educational purposes only, and should not be used in any other way - especially commercially. Be safe!
Usage
docker-compose up -d mongo
docker-compose up app
Go to http://0.0.0.0/mieszkania/poznan.
In developer's console run:
Meteor.call("scrap-olx");
// AND/OR
Meteor.call("scrap-gumtree");
Currently software interface is in Polish, and the only scraped city is Poznań, Poland. There're no plans for further development.
License
MIT