collect data from airbnb using octoparse
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Collect Data from Airbnb
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➜ Enter the task name. ➜ Save your task to a category. ➜ Then click “Next” to the second step.
➜ Open the Airbnb homepage in the build-in browser. You can search a place where you want to scrape room information in the search bar.
➜ Or just click on a place on homepage. ➜ Choose “Click an item”. (I choose Tokyo.)
➜ Wait until the page loaded, scroll down the page to the bottom. ➜ Click on “Next” page link.
➜ Select "Loop click the element".
Then we need to “Create a list of items" to get into the detail page. ➜ Click on the first title
➜ Select “Create a list of items”
➜ Select “Add current item to the list”
➜ Select “Continue to edit the list”
➜ Click on the second title ➜ Select “Add current item to the list”
➜ Select “Loop” to process the list
Extract data ➜ Click on the data you want to extract
➜ Select “Extract Text”
➜ Click the "Field Name" to modify
➜ Drag the second “Loop Item” before “Click to paginate” action
➜ Click "Next"
You can choose not to load images to speed up the extraction. But some-times may cause problems on certain websites.
➜ Then click “Next”
Export the results to Excel files, or other formats and save the file to the computer.
This is the data extracted.
Happy Data Hunting
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