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Help comparing data from websites

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  • 17-10-2007 9:54pm
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    SouperComputer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭


    Ill start off by saying im not a programmer, so im looking for the easiest way to do this. Any suggestions are welcome. This might be more suited to web?

    Basically we are looking at homes over here in the US. I would like to have somthing that pulls the asking price for a given property and then enters the address to nextag.com and zillow.com to get the market values and compares them to the asking price. Ideally then I am looking to rank them by highest gap, downwards.

    Any ideas? Its for personal use so im not going to be hammering the sited with hundreds of queries, probably 15 a day at most. Ive come across PHP scraping, how to implement it is another thing tho....


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    Cantab.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,444 ✭✭✭Cantab.


    SouperComputer wrote: »
    Ill start off by saying im not a programmer, so im looking for the easiest way to do this. Any suggestions are welcome. This might be more suited to web?

    Basically we are looking at homes over here in the US. I would like to have somthing that pulls the asking price for a given property and then enters the address to nextag.com and zillow.com to get the market values and compares them to the asking price. Ideally then I am looking to rank them by highest gap, downwards.

    Any ideas? Its for personal use so im not going to be hammering the sited with hundreds of queries, probably 15 a day at most. Ive come across PHP scraping, how to implement it is another thing tho....

    If you can develop an interface to the site: i.e. utilise any GET variables in the site's url. If GET variables are not available, i'd suggest writing a perl script and use regular expressions to identify particular parts of the site that you're interested in. You can use regexp and execute shell commands from inside php too.


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    sicruise
    Registered Users Posts: 378 ✭✭sicruise


    If you want this and you are not a programmer... why don't you try something like http://www.rentacoder.com :)


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