dannycork / wg-gesucht-crawler-cli

Python web crawler / scraper for WG-Gesucht. Crawls the WG-Gesucht site for new apartment listings and send a message to the poster, based off your saved filters and saved text

WG Gesucht Crawler

Python web crawler / scraper for WG-Gesucht. Crawls the WG-Gesucht site for new apartment listings and send a message to the poster, based off your saved filters and saved text template.

Installation

$ pip install wg-gesucht-crawler-cli

Or, if you have virtualenvwrapper installed:

$ mkvirtualenv wg-gesucht-crawler-cli
$ pip install wg-gesucht-crawler-cli

Use

Can be run directly from the command line with:

$ wg-gesucht-crawler-cli --help

Or if you want to use it in your own project:

from wg_gesucht.crawler import WgGesuchtCrawler

Just make sure to save at least one search filter as well as a template text on your wg-gesucht account.

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://wg-gesucht-crawler-cli.readthedocs.org.

Features

• Searches https://wg-gesucht.de for new WG ads based off your saved filters
• Sends your saved template message and applies to all matching listings
• Reruns every ~5 minutes
• Run on a RPi or free EC2 micro instance 24/7 to always be one of the first to apply for new listings

Getting Caught with reCAPTCHA

I've made the crawler sleep for 5-8 seconds between each request to try and avoid their reCAPTCHA, but if the crawler does get caught, you can sign into your wg-gesucht account manually through the browser and solve the reCAPTCHA, then start the crawler again. If it continues to happen, you can also increase the sleep time in the get_page() function in wg_gesucht.py