Python web crawler / scraper for WG-Gesucht. Crawls the WG-Gesucht site for new apartment listings and send a message to the poster, based off your saved filters and saved text template.
Project description
Python web crawler / scraper for WG-Gesucht. Crawls the WG-Gesucht site for new apartment listings and send a message to the poster, based off your saved filters and saved text template.
Installation
$ pip install wg-gesucht-crawler-cli
Or, if you have virtualenvwrapper installed:
$ mkvirtualenv wg-gesucht-crawler-cli $ pip install wg-gesucht-crawler-cli
Use
Can be run directly from the command line with:
$ wg-gesucht-crawler-cli --help
Or if you want to use it in your own project:
from wg_gesucht.crawler import WgGesuchtCrawler
Just make sure to save at least one search filter as well as a template text on your wg-gesucht account.
Free software: MIT license
Documentation: https://wg-gesucht-crawler-cli.readthedocs.org.
Features
Searches https://wg-gesucht.de for new WG ads based off your saved filters
Sends your saved template message and applies to all matching listings
Reruns every ~5 minutes
Run on a RPi or free EC2 micro instance 24/7 to always be one of the first to apply for new listings
Getting Caught with reCAPTCHA
I’ve made the crawler sleep for 5-8 seconds between each request to try and avoid their reCAPTCHA, but if the crawler does get caught, you can sign into your wg-gesucht account manually through the browser and solve the reCAPTCHA, then start the crawler again.
If it continues to happen, you can also increase the sleep time in the get_page()
function in wg_gesucht.py
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