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Telegram Property Bot

Looking for property can be arduous to say the least. In recent times, there have been many SaaS providers with platforms that allow the ease of search of propety. However, there is still the manual search which might be tiring and boring for the user. The idea of the Telegram bot is to automate this process of manually clicking a button. The bot will schedule a scrape once every day at a particular time, and send the user a list of property from various websites based on particular desired requirements from the user.

property-telebot's Issues

Build a Basic Webscrapping Script

The idea is that the User has a list of requirements of what they want in a property (eg. XXX sq meters, Location in Clementi ...), and enters it into a property website.

The script would need to scrap that data with the given queries.

What is needed to be found out:

• How does queries work in the Property website
• Does the website have any protection against webscrapping
• How to store the data from scrapping

Draft out Architecture of the Bot

Find out requirements for Property

The user will want to look at a particular set of property metrics such as

1. Location
2. Square Meters
3. Type of Housing (Condo/HDB etc...)
4. Cost

Setting up base Telegram Bot

The idea behind the Telegram Bot is that it scrapes the website everyday at a certain hour, with the given requirements of the Property that the user wants.

For the first iteration, it could be that the bot has a schedule to scrap the top listed property in a pre-coded region in Singapore.

Base skeleton of the Telegram bot should be:

• Scheduler
• Authenticating the Telegram Bot
• Posting out data to the user

Run first iteration of the Bot

The first Iteration of the Bot should look like:

1. The User authenticates and accesses the Telebot
2. The Bot schedules a scrape every 10am (SGT)
3. The values are stored inside a database (Excel/SQL)
4. The User is able to see the values from their Telegram application

Research on Webscrapp-able Property Websites

So previously when I was attempting to web scrap for an idea that my friends were pursuing, there might be an issue where the websites block the user from calling the URL an excessive amounts of time? Im not sure.

But some of the websites that I have been recommended for property would be:

1. Property Guru
2. 99.co
3. SRX Property
4. Edgeprop
5. PropertyAsiaDirect