RealEstateWebTools

property_web_scraper

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RealEstateWebTools / property_web_scraper

property_web_scraper

Web based UI to make processing scraped data from real estate websites super simple

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Web based UI to make processing scraped data from real estate websites super simple

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Observed mentions: 2017-07-12 08:39:48 UTC to 2026-02-18 12:21:26 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	1	2
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	5	0	5
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2025	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2026 (partial)	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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realty_geek·Feb 18, 2026

I buy this argument I for one have found myself happily spending hundreds of dollars trying to build things I struggled to do in the past. And I am happy to keep things open source because I know the code is no longer the moat. As an example, I started this almost 10 years ago: https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper I the past 4 days I have added more functionality to it that I ever did in all the time before.

In Claude Sonnet 4.6

etewiah·Apr 19, 2022

Great news for the real estate sector. I actually built an open source project for scraping real estate websites several years ago: https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper Might be time to go back and update it ;)

In Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms

realty_geek·May 3, 2018

I'm based in Spain but I have worked with some US clients. Yes MLS access is a pain. I have some open source code for accessing MLS data in this project (which PWB uses): https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper In many cases though it was easier to just scrape the data I needed directly from real estate websites

In Ask HN: Who is looking for help on their side project? (May 2018)

africajam·Mar 14, 2018

For anyone looking to build a product that relies on aggregating real estate data I've built an open source web scraper specifically for real estate: https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper

In Show HN: Larry's Cheap Houses – Deep Learning Powered Real Estate Deals

africajam·Mar 6, 2018

Nice, thanks for sharing! I built a simple scraper and I need to add background processing etc: https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper Will dig into your code to see what I can learn.

In SlimerJS: a replacement for PhantomJS using recent Firefox

africajam·Feb 24, 2018

Hi there, a sector in which web scraping is quite important is real estate. I have written an open source scraper for that sector (using Nokogiri and Ruby on Rails): https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper Take a look and let me know what you think. I have a few ideas about how to monetize. Get in touch if this is something you would like to work with me on ( ed at propertywebbuilder.com )

In Ask HN: Work to search for if I enjoy web scraping and browser automation

realty_geek·Jan 3, 2018

Sorry for the late reply. I've added a wiki explaining how to add new sites: https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper/w...

In Show HN: PropertyWebScraper – scrape real estate listings for fun and profit

africajam·Dec 29, 2017Submission

Show HN: PropertyWebScraper – scrape real estate listings for fun and profit

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africajam·Dec 9, 2017

I've created an open source project for scraping real estate sites: https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper You could use it to save people the trouble of filling out all the details for their property - they just provide the url for the property on a portal site that is supported and you import the details from there.

In Show HN: Enviar.io – Real estate landing pages

africajam·Jul 12, 2017

Wow, this really rocks. Funny to see this right now as I've been experimenting with web scraping for the real estate sector - a project that I've made available open source here: https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper One of the things I really would like to do would be to make a chrome extension to help people export data as they search for properties. Will look into this product as soon as I get the chance and provide some feedback.

In Kinase: A Framework for Building Web Scrapers in Chrome