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Python 3 script to find real estate listings of properties up for sale on zillow.com
from lxml import html
import requests
import unicodecsv as csv
import argparse
def parse(zipcode,filter=None):
if filter=="newest":
url = "https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/{0}/0_singlestory/days_sort".format(zipcode)
elif filter == "cheapest":
url = "https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/{0}/0_singlestory/pricea_sort/".format(zipcode)
else:
url = "https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/{0}_rb/?fromHomePage=true&shouldFireSellPageImplicitClaimGA=false&fromHomePageTab=buy".format(zipcode)
for i in range(5):
# try:
headers= {
'accept':'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8',
'accept-encoding':'gzip, deflate, sdch, br',
'accept-language':'en-GB,en;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,ml;q=0.4',
'cache-control':'max-age=0',
'upgrade-insecure-requests':'1',
'user-agent':'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36'
}
response = requests.get(url,headers=headers)
print(response.status_code)
parser = html.fromstring(response.text)
search_results = parser.xpath("//div[@id='search-results']//article")
properties_list = []
for properties in search_results:
raw_address = properties.xpath(".//span[@itemprop='address']//span[@itemprop='streetAddress']//text()")
raw_city = properties.xpath(".//span[@itemprop='address']//span[@itemprop='addressLocality']//text()")
raw_state= properties.xpath(".//span[@itemprop='address']//span[@itemprop='addressRegion']//text()")
raw_postal_code= properties.xpath(".//span[@itemprop='address']//span[@itemprop='postalCode']//text()")
raw_price = properties.xpath(".//span[@class='zsg-photo-card-price']//text()")
raw_info = properties.xpath(".//span[@class='zsg-photo-card-info']//text()")
raw_broker_name = properties.xpath(".//span[@class='zsg-photo-card-broker-name']//text()")
url = properties.xpath(".//a[contains(@class,'overlay-link')]/@href")
raw_title = properties.xpath(".//h4//text()")
address = ' '.join(' '.join(raw_address).split()) if raw_address else None
city = ''.join(raw_city).strip() if raw_city else None
state = ''.join(raw_state).strip() if raw_state else None
postal_code = ''.join(raw_postal_code).strip() if raw_postal_code else None
price = ''.join(raw_price).strip() if raw_price else None
info = ' '.join(' '.join(raw_info).split()).replace(u"\xb7",',')
broker = ''.join(raw_broker_name).strip() if raw_broker_name else None
title = ''.join(raw_title) if raw_title else None
property_url = "https://www.zillow.com"+url[0] if url else None
is_forsale = properties.xpath('.//span[@class="zsg-icon-for-sale"]')
properties = {
'address':address,
'city':city,
'state':state,
'postal_code':postal_code,
'price':price,
'facts and features':info,
'real estate provider':broker,
'url':property_url,
'title':title
}
if is_forsale:
properties_list.append(properties)
return properties_list
# except:
# print ("Failed to process the page",url)
if __name__=="__main__":
argparser = argparse.ArgumentParser(formatter_class=argparse.RawTextHelpFormatter)
argparser.add_argument('zipcode',help = '')
sortorder_help = """
available sort orders are :
newest : Latest property details,
cheapest : Properties with cheapest price
"""
argparser.add_argument('sort',nargs='?',help = sortorder_help,default ='Homes For You')
args = argparser.parse_args()
zipcode = args.zipcode
sort = args.sort
print ("Fetching data for %s"%(zipcode))
scraped_data = parse(zipcode,sort)
print ("Writing data to output file")
with open("properties-%s.csv"%(zipcode),'wb')as csvfile:
fieldnames = ['title','address','city','state','postal_code','price','facts and features','real estate provider','url']
writer = csv.DictWriter(csvfile, fieldnames=fieldnames)
writer.writeheader()
for row in scraped_data:
writer.writerow(row)
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