Hi guys, looking for advice on creating an actor that would scrap bazos.cz, well-known czech classified ads portal. I was kind of surprised that I did not find a ready soultion in the Store 🙂 The goal is to build a real estate watchdog for personal use. The one provided by Bazos itself is really basic, so I am sure it would benefit many others. Has anyone ever built something that can be reused? If not, could you please advise how to get started? Thank you.
#Bazos.cz watchdog
rugged scroll
sour jetty
Heya @rugged scroll! Thanks for the question and for the great idea 😄 This actor would be super useful for me.
I built something similar for my own personal use a while back when I was searching for a flat in a specific area. It monitored Bazos as well as a few other sites.
Unfortunately, I've lost the code to my solution, as I never posted it on GitHub, but my solution was to use the Schedules feature on the Apify platform to run the actor twice a day. It would automatically go through the listings for X city/village. If any of the listings contained the keywords of what I was looking for (such as 1+kk), it would send an email to me with the link to the listing so I could check it out manually. For this I used the apify/send-mail actor: https://apify.com/apify/send-mail
I'd definitely recommend using Crawlee to build the project, but if you don't have much programming experience, you can find a freelancer in the #💻hire-freelancers channel who can work with you to do this project.