Listing Scraper
*Disclaimer: this is an educational project, not a commercial venture!*
Geared towards car enthusiasts, this product streamlines the online car buying process by centralizing online listings onto one website, eliminating the need to browse numerous sites.
Features
Our function scrapes popular car listing sites and compiles all the data into one site, improving the car-buying user experience
Export your search results as a spreadsheet
Instantly message dealerships and private sellers
Algorithm
My proprietary algorithm currently scrapes a site’s HTML, cleans the data, and stores it in a Pandas dataframe. Pandas is works for the current scope of the product, however, as the amount of data processed scales, I would need to switch to SQL.
A snippet of my code for extracting the model’s name and its year into two separate variables.