I got sick of copy/pasting things from zillow into a spreadsheet and then google maps searching for commute times.
With this, you can just prepare a csv with URLs from Zillow and then get a new CSV with info (rooms, rent, etc) and commute times.
Why this and not the Zillow renter hub? The renter hub only allows up to 5 listing comparison. And it also doesn't seem to support exporting to CSV.
First install package requirements (assuming you already have Python installed.)
source build.sh
Get a google maps API key (see https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/directions/overview) and then you can save it down in a file called "GMAPS_API_KEY". You should enable:
- Distance Matrix API
- Directions API
python ./renter.py \
--input <starting-csv> \
--cache <folder-to-save-html> \
--output <resulting-csv> --commute_addresses "<address1>" "<address2>" ...
See fetch.ps1 for a full example
and fetch-example.ps1 (.sh) for an example you can actually execute.
- Zillow changes their HTML: this is the most likely long term issue.
If this happens, you should (1) navigate to a link you want to extract info from, download the HTML, and then inspect and figure out the right
path to the data you want. Then you can update
get_listingaccordingly.