A scraper for Realestate.com.au, a popular Australian property listing website.
Can be used to quickly scrape the details of rental properties, aggregating the data into a TSV (tab-seperated values) file that can be viwed in Excel or a text-editor.
The following parameters can be set at the top of the script:
| Parameter | Decription |
|---|---|
scrapeDescriptions |
Should the scraper also record the description of each property? This takes longer, as each property page need to be loaded. |
outputFilename |
Where should the results be stored? By default, the output is a .TSV file, but technically it could be a .TXT file, or something else entirely. |
pagesToLoad |
How many pages should be loaded before the scraper stops? The scraper will automatically stop once no more results are returned. |
propertyType |
What sort of property are we searching for? Common options are house, unit+apartment and townhouse. |
bedsMin , bedsMax |
How many bedrooms? |
rentMin, rentMax |
How much rent per week? |
postcodes |
Which areas? |
includeSurrounding |
Should the surrounding suburbs be included? |