toddlarson5 / kijiji-mapper

Create a map out of Kijiji ad feeds, useful for browsing apartments for instance.

KIJIJI MAPPER

Outputs a map of places from Kijiji by scraping its HTML and making calls to Google geo-location API.

Setup:

• Git clone
• Install dependencies: python setup.py develop
• Go here: https://console.developers.google.com, create a project and enable google APIs:
  • Google Maps Geocoding API
  • Google Maps JavaScript API
• Get your credentials from Google API Coneole. (API Keys, "Server" and "Browser" key)
• Copy those to secrets.yml, see secrets.yml.example to get an example.
• Edit run.py. Things you might need to change:
  • DEFAULT_PAGES (how many pages to crawl?)
  • DEFAULT_URL_TEMPLATE
    • Defaults to: http://www.kijiji.ca/b-2-bedroom-apartments-condos/ottawa/{page}c214l1700185
    • Just browse on Kijiji, when you find a category you like, copy the URL. Make sure to insert the {page} formatting token on the URL at the appropriate spot!
  • DEFAULT_MAP_CENTER defaults to Ottawa. Change the lat & long for where you're looking for a place.
• Finally execute using python run.py. When it's done doing its thing, if it encountered no errors, you'll have a file called "map.html". Open it and have browse places!