Still working? about bnb_scrapy_tutorial HOT 11 CLOSED

Updated the xpath query now it works again.
Airbnb changed their css on the landing page.

from bnb_scrapy_tutorial.

Hi Lucca, really nice work. Could you confirm if the script still works? Airbnb seems to have changed the css one more time, and I'm getting 0 bytes even cloning your repo.
Thanks,

from bnb_scrapy_tutorial.

I have fixed it on my end with the latest commit if you could confirm that it works also for you that would be great.

from bnb_scrapy_tutorial.

Ok I have found the issue, airbnb serves a different site now sometimes, where page= is replaced by section_offset=, but it only affects the .com domain from certain countries.

However I don't have time right now to fix it considering all the possible permutations.
If you would like to work on a possible solution that would also be great.

from bnb_scrapy_tutorial.

Hi Lucca,

It worked well few days ago but I think there is a new problem for finding the last pages.

def last_pagenumer_in_search(self, response):
        try:  # to get the last page number
            last_page_number = int(response
                                   .xpath('//ul[@class="list-unstyled"]/li[last()-1]/a/@href')
                                   .extract()[0]
                                   .split('page=')[1]
                                   )
            return last_page_number

In the script website it is still at the li[last()-1]/a/@href but there is no more ('page=').
If someone could have a look. I don't find how to fix it.
Cheers,

Michael

from bnb_scrapy_tutorial.

I found that the value 'page=' is changed to the value 'section_offset=' But this value is not presented on the first page, the second page has a value section_offset=1, and the 17-th page section_offset=16

from bnb_scrapy_tutorial.

This has been addressed in #4 and solved #6

from bnb_scrapy_tutorial.

possible to get another update, as I am getting 0 bytes now from this

from bnb_scrapy_tutorial.

Airbnb seems to have changed the css one more time, and I'm getting 0 bytes even cloning your repo.
This is incredible work though,
Thanks

from bnb_scrapy_tutorial.

Hi @aabid0193, thanks glad you like it. Currently to get this version of the code to work would require to rewrite it from the ground up since the data is no longer served as it was a year ago. In the README.md I have a link to an up to dare extension of this code. Wish you best of luck with scraping 😉

from bnb_scrapy_tutorial.

Thank you!

from bnb_scrapy_tutorial.