alexrods/housing_scrapperml

Housing scrapper from mercado libre

Housing_scrapperML

The objective of this project is collect rents housing information in my city, and returns a list of the five best rent choices according to a list of defined characteristics.

In this project i make a web scraping to the rents housing information of my city from MercadoLibre. Later clean data and prepare for evaluate the model Ideal house rent.

Instructions

• Download or clone the repository

• Create virtual environment, in the root of project

    python -m venv venv
  

• Activate virtual environment

    # Windows
    .\venv\Scripts\activate
    
    #Linux
    source venv/bin/activate
  

• Install requirements.txt

    pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• If you want make scraping to other ubication modify the line 42 of scraper HOME_URL variable:

• Run main.py

    python main.py
  

New Version v1.0

• Run app.py

    python app.py
  

• This script run in localhost,

    http://localhost:8080/ideal_house
  

Receive the data through the browser.

• Example:

    http://localhost:8080/ideal_house?surface=1&bathrooms=2&bedrooms=1&parking=2&price=2
  

• For scrap data, include

    &scrap=true
  

Results

Runing main.py

Runing app.py