"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.
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!
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.
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