rightmove.co.uk is one of the UK's largest property listings websites, hosting thousands of listings of properties for sale and to rent.
The rightmove_webscraper.py class is a simple Python interface to scrape property listings from the website and prepare them in a Pandas dataframe for analysis.
The class uses the lxml and requests libraries to scrape data from the rightmove website.
- Go to rightmove.co.uk and search for whatever listings you are interested in ...
- Filter the search however you choose ...
- Run the search and copy the URL of the results page ...
- Create an instance of the class on the URL ...
url = "http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier= [...] "
rightmove_object = rightmove_data(url)- Access the data using the methods and attributes of the object ...
The full results can be created as a Pandas dataframe using the .get_results() method.
