Rio Housing Scraper

This project is designed to scrape house rental listings from the website quintoandar.com.br using the Selenium library in Python. The main script automates the browser to interact with the website and extract detailed information on available rental listings in Rio de Janeiro.

Imports and Dependencies

Essential libraries such as selenium for web scraping, pandas for data manipulation, re for regular expressions, and os for interacting with the operating system are imported at the beginning.

House Class

The House class serves as a data model for housing listings. It encompasses attributes like:

• Type of property
• Address
• Region
• Rent amount
• Total rent
• Area (in sq meters)
• Number of rooms
• Number of bathrooms
• Garage spaces
• Furnishing status

HouseScraper Class

This is the primary class responsible for the scraping process. Key functionalities include:

• __init__ method: Initializes the web driver and an empty list to store house data.

• extract_details method: Employs regular expressions to parse essential details about the house from a given text.

• scrape_houses method: Orchestrates the scraping sequence:

  • Navigates to the website.
  • Inputs "Rio de Janeiro" into the city search field.
  • Clicks the search button and manages any pop-ups or overlays.
  • Iteratively loads and captures house listings up to a predetermined count (2500 in this case). During each iteration, it extracts details like property type, address, region, rent amount, total rent, and other features.
  • Post-scraping, the data is saved to a DataFrame and subsequently exported to a CSV file. If an existing CSV is detected, the new data is appended, and any duplicates are eliminated.

Execution Logic

At the tail end of the script, there's a segment that instantiates the HouseScraper class and triggers the scrape_houses method three times. This repetition ensures comprehensive data collection.