How to scrape French Listings data on SeLoger with no code?

Overview

On top of being highly popular, SeLoger is providing extremely qualitative datasets — with strong and relevant pieces of information. Of course, we can find some usual Real Estate-related data points, such as area, price, or neighborhood, as available below:

We'll also find some advanced and extremely valuable elements, such as availability date, kind of exterior area, kitchen type, air conditioning…

Why not scrape all these valuable data points with a quick Python script? Let’s code something quick, time is precious…

import requests
r = requests.get("https://www.seloger.com/")
with open('response_seloger.htm', 'w') as f:
    f.write(r.text)

Though, while opening the answer… what a horror!

In these conditions, how can we collect data at scale on SeLoger, with no code? For free? Is it even possible?

Setup

Fortunately, our fantastic development teams did deploy for you a tremendous ready-made crawler. First, go on our dedicated crawler page, available just here:

And simply click on ‘Start Now’. Here we go!

Then, go on SeLoger, and choose all the filters you do need: type of real estate structure, location, price filters… Once complete, copy-paste the URL of your browser. And keep it preciously e.g.

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Now, let’s shift back to our lobstr area — and let’s simply copy-paste the URL we just saved (1), then let’s simply click on Save (2):

Endly, since we want to launch our crawler only once manually — it’s a demo, right? — let’s symply click on Manually (1) and Save (2):

Launch

Time has come… let’s launch our awesome collection machine!

Simply click on the ‘Launch’ button, on the top-right corner of the screen:

And here we go! The crawler is now running at full speed — collecting approx. 20 listings per minute:

Enjoy

After a couple of seconds, the data is fully available — and hopefully juicy:

Simply click on the top-right red big button — the elephant in the room — and enjoy you’re complete Seloger dataset. A dataset you did collect with no code, in a couple of seconds, for free.

Finally, we did collect 17 listings, in precisely 88 seconds, or a steady collection speed of 6 listings per second. Clean. Fast.

Conclusion

Code-free. Money-free. In a couple of seconds. Happy scraping!

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