README.md

Renting-Research-Zillow-Bot

Gathers rent information from Zillow via BeautifulSoup and inputs rent information into a Google Form using Selenium. The example shown is of rental apartments in San Francisco, California.

Features:

• Uses BeautifulSoup to get renting information from Zillow and scrapes all listed property information
• Uses Selenium to place all property Zillow information to a Google Form and submit information
• Uses Google Forms to store information
• Easily transfer Google Form information to Google Sheets to easily apply Data Science

How to run:

• Download repository
• Go to Zillow and select an area you are interested in getting data from. When found, copy the url and update ZILLOW_LINK in main.py
• Create a Google Form with 6 short response questions. In the order of address, price per month, bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage, property link. For more info see screenshots below.
• Copy the newly created Google Form url and update GOOGLE_FORM in main.py
• Open downloaded repository with a command line interface
• run pip install selenium
• run python main.py
• Script start and windows will open. If an error occurs, try running the program again as Zillow sometime responds with garbage

Program Output:

Google Form Example:

Converted to Google Sheets: