Craigslist Ad Scraper

🧾 About the Project

A web scraper that scrapes ads from Craigslist, stores each ad in a separate file, and lets the user search from those files.

Built With

This ad scraper is built in Python using:

• BeautifulSoup
• Numpy

Prerequisites

• Python 3 or Jupyter Notebook should be installed and properly configured on your system.
• Both .py and .ipynb files contain the same source code.

🎞 Demo

● Set the number of ads you want to scrape and run the script. The ads will be scraped and stored in separate files.

● You can now search from the stored files.

● You can also enter queries contaminated with punctuations and the program will de-contaminate the query and fetch the right result.

🔑 License

This project is distributed under MIT License. View the LICENSE file for more information.

If you find the repo useful, do support it by giving a star. ⭐

🖋 Author

Follow my GitHub profile to stay updated with my latest projects: