Wanted: Someone with experience of scraping Rightmove, says job advert

Here’s an intriguing job advert – someone is looking for a freelancer with “experience in data scraping on Rightmove”.

The advertiser is looking for someone with the knowledge on where to find the addresses that are for sale.

Apparently, it is for a direct mail campaign.

The scraping job itself will last less than a week and the pay won’t be great as the advertiser is looking for the lowest possible rates.

Yesterday afternoon, a Rightmove spokesperson said: “It is against Rightmove’s terms and conditions to conduct scraping of the content on our site.

“If scraping is detected or we find or are alerted to job adverts requesting people to scrape Rightmove we take appropriate action.”

 

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6 Comments

  1. Trevor Mealham

    Who was the advertiser and what campaigns were to be posted to sellers ????

    Scraping will grow and grow, likely direct from agents own websites for alternate and new uses.

    Zoopla has done a great job at trying to block (or make very expensive) the commodity of agents data by buying softwares.

    So the natural thing is for new innovation with agents permission to crape from the agents website away from portals.

    Its potentially a real big weak link for portals dominating data for exposure.

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  2. Skyhorse595

    But what burk details the job title so explicitly? Plenty of sectors use online portals and databases to research/trawl data. Considering the cost of buying in raw data (which at best is generic, expensive and out of date) this is a fairly common practice. It tends to be called Data Administration or some suitably neutral title when a job is advertised online. Dear oh dear.

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  3. P-Daddy

    Love the detailed job description…’the properties that are for sale and scrap  the data….

    Project type I’m not sure’

    Priceless.

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  4. Anonymous Coward

    I’m not so sure that it’s that easy to get the exact property address (saon, paon, etcetera) from the customer facing front end of Rightmove.

    Certainly it can be done, but either requires the downloading of a PDF where the agent has put the door number on or using Google Streetview to manually work it out.

    Either way takes time but I will admit that it is way quicker than the old fashioned method of driving the streets looking for boards!

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  5. DeepPurple89

    The advertiser doesn’t need to recruit anyone. He can do what my removals mate does. He buys “recent sold” data without client info from TwentyCI for 39p or backfilled with a guess at the owner’s name from the Land Registry at 59p. They come with a guess at the imminent completion date. It is his best source of leads. TwentyCI have an overseas data centre and they must trawl Rightmove listings (I’m sure they don’t do anything naughty here) to get their data. I didn’t realise that a simple address and a date could be so valuable. I immediately thought I wouldn’t mind a slice of that but if I sell 100 properties per year and one of these guys sells my data with my permission even half a dozen times (6 X 59p X 100) and shares his revenue, I couldn’t expect more than a few hundred quid per year. So, I’ll shelve that as a retirement plan.

     

     

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  6. Arthur87

    Instead of recruit person you can hire web scraping services provider for do same task. you will get accurate data regarding property in fastest manner. I know Infovium web scraping services that do this type of stuff regarding scraping Real Estate sites.

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