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Get alerts for rightmove properties faster then rightmove themselves. Just set this up as a cron job. Fairly certain they won't be happy. Terms as so boring to read!
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| <?php | |
| //Search options | |
| $options = array( | |
| "alertEmails" => array( | |
| "email@email.com", | |
| ), | |
| "cacheFile" => __DIR__ . "/rightmove.json", | |
| "protocol" => "http", | |
| "host" => "www.rightmove.co.uk", | |
| "port" => 80, | |
| "propertyFor" => "sale", | |
| "params" => array( | |
| "sortType" => "6", //Don't change this. This is ordered by most recent needed for alerts | |
| "partBuyPartRent" => "false", //Don't change this. Required | |
| "searchLocation" => "Reading, Berkshire", | |
| "minPrice" => "150000", | |
| "maxPrice" => "160000", | |
| "minBedrooms" => "1", | |
| "maxBedrooms" => "5", | |
| "displayPropertyType" => "houses", //houses, flats, bungalows, land, commercial, other | |
| "retirement" => "false", //Include retirement properties | |
| "radius" => "1.0" //Miles | |
| ), | |
| ); | |
| //Load in properties | |
| if (file_exists($options["cacheFile"])) { | |
| $propertiesCacheString = file_get_contents($options["cacheFile"]); | |
| $propertiesCache = json_decode($propertiesCacheString); | |
| } else { | |
| $propertiesCache = new stdClass(); | |
| } | |
| //Build the URL | |
| $url = $options["protocol"] . "://" . $options["host"] . ":" . $options["port"] . "/ajax/property-for-" . $options["propertyFor"] . "/map-search.html?" . http_build_query($options["params"]); | |
| //Get the contents | |
| $content = file_get_contents($url); | |
| //Decode json | |
| $json = json_decode($content); | |
| if (!$json || !isset($json->mappedProperties)) { | |
| die("Rightmove response was not json\n"); | |
| } | |
| //Types of line break | |
| $breaks = array("\r\n", "\n", "\r"); | |
| //Properties | |
| $propertiesToAlert = array(); | |
| foreach($json->mappedProperties as $propertyData) { | |
| //Get property details | |
| $propertyUrl = "http://www.rightmove.co.uk/ajax/maps/property-summaries.html?propertyId=" . $propertyData->id; | |
| $propertyContent = mb_convert_encoding(file_get_contents($propertyUrl), "HTML-ENTITIES", "UTF-8"); | |
| $propertyJson = json_decode($propertyContent); | |
| //Parse the XML of the first item in the property json | |
| $fixedXmlString = '<temp>' . html_entity_decode(utf8_encode(str_replace('<li class="regular', '<div class="regular', $propertyJson[0]))) . '</div></temp>'; | |
| $xml = simplexml_load_string($fixedXmlString); | |
| //Property details node | |
| $propertyDetailsNode = $xml->div->div->div[1]; | |
| //Get details | |
| $propertyDetails = (object)array( | |
| "id" => (string)$propertyData->id, | |
| "link" => "http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-" . $options["propertyFor"] . "/property-" . $propertyData->id . ".html", | |
| "price" => (string)$propertyDetailsNode->p[0], | |
| "description" => (string)$propertyDetailsNode->p[1]->span, | |
| "address" => str_replace($breaks, " ", $propertyDetailsNode->h2), | |
| "thumbnail" => (string)$xml->div->div->div[0]->div->div->a->img["src"], | |
| ); | |
| //See if this property has been alerted before and the price is the same? | |
| if (isset($propertiesCache->{$propertyDetails->id}) === false || $propertiesCache->{$propertyDetails->id}->price !== $propertyDetails->price) { | |
| //Add old price if required | |
| if (isset($propertiesCache->{$propertyDetails->id})) { | |
| $propertyDetails->oldPrice = $propertiesCache->{$propertyDetails->id}->price; | |
| } | |
| //Add to alert list | |
| $propertiesToAlert[] = $propertyDetails; | |
| //Add the property to the cache | |
| $propertiesCache->{$propertyDetails->id} = $propertyDetails; | |
| } | |
| } | |
| //Alert Count | |
| $alertCount = count($propertiesToAlert); | |
| //Do we have properties to alert? | |
| if ($alertCount) { | |
| //Set the subject | |
| $subject = $alertCount . ' new properties on Rightmove'; | |
| //Headers | |
| $headers = "From: email@email.com\r\n"; | |
| $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; | |
| $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n"; | |
| //Create the message | |
| $message = '<html><p><body><strong>' . $alertCount . ' new properties have been listed</strong></p>'; | |
| $message .= '<table style="border-color: #666;" cellpadding="10">'; | |
| foreach($propertiesToAlert as $property) { | |
| $message .= "<tr style='background: #eee;'>\n"; | |
| $message .= "<td><a href=\"" . $property->link . "\"><img src=\"" . $property->thumbnail . "\"</td>\n"; | |
| $message .= "<td><strong>Price:</strong> " . $property->price . "<br />\n"; | |
| if (isset($property->oldPrice)) { | |
| $message .= "<strong>Old price:</strong> " . $property->oldPrice . "<br />\n"; | |
| } | |
| $message .= "<strong>Address:</strong> " . $property->address . "<br />\n"; | |
| $message .= "<strong>Description:</strong> " . $property->description . "<br />\n"; | |
| $message .= "<a href=\"" . $property->link . "\">View property details</a></td>\n"; | |
| $message .= "</tr>\n\n"; | |
| } | |
| $message .= "</table><p>Thanks<br />Rightmove super-bot</p></body></html>"; | |
| //Send to each email alert | |
| foreach($options["alertEmails"] as $to) { | |
| mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); | |
| } | |
| //Update the cache | |
| file_put_contents($options["cacheFile"], json_encode($propertiesCache, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT)); | |
| } |
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