rightmove-webscraper 1.0.2

A class for scraping data from rightmove.co.uk

# rightmove-webscraper

http://www.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.

## Installation

Version 1.0 is now available to install via Pip:

pip install -U rightmove-webscraper

## How to use

1. Go to “http://www.rightmove.co.uk/” and search for whatever listings you are interested in …

2. Filter the search however you choose …

3. Run the search and copy the URL of the results page …

4. 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) `

5. 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 <code>.get_results</code> 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 <code>.get_results</code> DataFrame, for example Postcode:

` rm.summary(by=”postcode”) `