rightmove.co.uk is one of the UK's largest property listings websites, hosting thousands of listings of properties for sale and to rent.
rightmove_webscraper.py is a simple Python interface to scrape property listings from the website and prepare them in a Pandas dataframe for analysis.
Version 1.0.2 is now available to install via Pip:
pip install -U rightmove-webscraper
- 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 ...
from rightmove_webscraper import RightmoveData
url = "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?searchType=SALE&locationIdentifier=REGION%5E94346"
rm = RightmoveData(url)- Access the data using the methods and attributes of the object ...
Get the average price of all listings returned by the search:
rm.average_price
Show the total number of listings returned by the search:
rm.results_count
Access the full results as a Pandas dataframe at the .get_results attribute.
rm.get_results
Get quick summary statistics of the results, showing the number of listings and average price grouped by the number of bedrooms:
rm.summary()
Alternatively group the results by any other column returned in the .get_results DataFrame, for example Postcode:
rm.summary(by="postcode")
@toddy86 has pointed out per the terms and conditions here the use of webscrapers is unauthorised by rightmove. So please don't use this package!