/classifieds

Rails application that allows me to scrape the classified ads of my local newspaper and automate the process of searching for something in particular, I can create alerts and the system will send me an email when there is a match

Primary LanguageRuby

Classifieds ↑

Web scraping for you local classifieds ads

Installation ↑

Run from your rails console (Ex: my local newspaper name as the first parameter and its url for the second parameter)

Crawler.get_sections_and_categories("El Heraldo", "http://clasificados.elheraldo.co/")

Schedule the task to retrieve the classified ads:

rake classifieds:get_classifieds

Schedule the task to send the alerts:

rake classifieds:alert_classifieds

Usage ↑

Search across the all classified ads and create alerts and receive an email when the ads matches

Contributing ↑

  1. Fork it

  2. Create your feature branch (‘git checkout -b my-new-feature`)

  3. Commit your changes (‘git commit -am ’Add some feature’‘)

  4. Push to the branch (‘git push origin my-new-feature`)

  5. Create new Pull Request