This is a web application intended to scrap a specific website in order to get email notifications about new properties with specific parameters in a specific location.

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Install all required modules running pip with the provided file:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

As a first step, you need to create locally PostgreSQL database named 'apartments'.

Secondly,copy the .env.sample as .env and fill with your PostgreSQL credentials, and credentials for your scraper working email, which is going to be used in the process of sending notifications, and declare the recipient of notifications.

USERNAME=sample_username
PASSWD=XXXXXX
HOSTNAME=sample_hostname
DB_NAME=apartments
[email protected]
MAIL_PASSWORD=XXXXXX
[email protected]

With ready empty DB, and filled .env file you're ready to run and receive your first email notifications:

Example:

$ python main.py -mp 600000 -d 3 -mf 6 -s 3

where:

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -mp MAX_PRICE, --max_price MAX_PRICE
                        Max price
  -d DAYS_RECENCY, --days_recency DAYS_RECENCY
                        Ad recency 1 or 3
  -mf MAX_FLOOR, --max_floor MAX_FLOOR
                        Max desired floor
  -s SIZE, --size SIZE  Min amount of rooms

Selecting specific districts.