Daft.ie caters to nearly 80% of the housing needs in Ireland, but if you are looking for this bot you probably know how bad the situation is to get a house in dublin.
daft.ie bot searches the website for new listings and as soon as it finds one it applies to them on your behalf with your details.
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Go to daft.ie and search for your area, radius distance, budget, rooms etc
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Select "Most Recent" from the drop down and copy the URL of the page
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Paste this URL in the index.js file on
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Paste as many search criterias as your like, inside the links array, same as step 3
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Edit your personal information in details array in index.js file on
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Type command "npm run" in your terminal to run the bot
That's it your bot should be running now
All the best for your house hunting!
- Whenever the bot applies to a new listing it prints the confirmation message in the terminal
- You can change the frequency of often should the bot run in index.js
line 52 - If you are worried about getting your IP banned from setting too many requests to api endpoint, you can try using this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_r2DxGR7I8
If you feel you can this bot more robust or add any new features please feel free to raise PR. Good luck!