In this video, I’ll show you how I built a custom web scraper using Python's Scrapy framework to extract data from Airbnb. 🌐
We'll start by setting up our spider to scrape listings in Calgary, adjusting parameters like location, check-in/check-out dates, and the number of guests. 🏙️🏡
✨ Key Highlights:
1. Parsing Dynamic Data: We’ll dive into how to extract key data points like room titles, prices, ratings, images, and more from Airbnb's dynamically loaded content.
2. Handling Pagination: Learn how to navigate through multiple pages of results using pagination to ensure we don’t miss any listings. 📄➡️📄
3. Building a JSON Output: All scraped data will be neatly structured and output as JSON, perfect for further analysis or use in other applications. 🔍
📜 Code Breakdown:
- The spider starts with constructing the base URL, tailored with search parameters such as the number of adults, children, and pets.
- It then sends a request to the server and parses the returned data to extract listing information like the average rating, room ID, title, price, and coordinates.
- Finally, we implement pagination by fetching the `nextPageCursor`, allowing the spider to continue scraping through multiple pages of listings seamlessly.
👨💻 Check out the full code on GitHub: https://github.com/itishosseinian/scrape-airbnb.git
By the end of this tutorial, you'll have a fully functional scraper that can collect and paginate Airbnb listings data. No need to spend $15 on a third-party tool when you can code your own! 💪
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00:00 - Intro and What we are going to do?
03:53 - Setting up a Python virtual environment and Spider for Scrapy
06:17 - how data is released in Airbnb, removing extra parameter in URL using Postman
09:25 - making our Scrapy dynamic using f string in Python
13:00 - disable robots.txt in Scrapy and working with Scrapy shell
17:55 - How to take data located in script tag in Scrapy, Xpath("//script[@id]")
19:28 - how to convert string to json using json.loads
21:10 - how to parse json data in web scraping, making a loop for json data
33:28 - how to paginate in Scrapy. taking next page parameter in website
40:02 - Outro Chat (A Little Talk)
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