https://github.com/mit-spatial-action/masslandlords_scraper

Pulls weekly filing counts from MassLandlords (we use this as a baseline to ensure we're capturing all cases).
https://github.com/mit-spatial-action/masslandlords_scraper

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Pulls weekly filing counts from MassLandlords (we use this as a baseline to ensure we're capturing all cases).

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mit-spatial-action/masslandlords_scraper
• Owner: mit-spatial-action
• License: mit
• Created: 2023-03-10T16:10:40.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-08-01T20:10:17.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-02-16T20:27:41.913Z (9 months ago)
• Topics: evictions, housing, landlords, massachusetts
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 23.4 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 3
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# MassLandlords Scraper



An exremely simple Python scraper to collect weekly [eviction filing counts from MassLandlords](https://masslandlords.net/policy/eviction-data/). We use these counts to validate the number of filings we're retrieving using our [filing downloader tool](https://github.com/Unnamed-Lab-DUSP/filing_downloader). 

It fetches all counts starting from the week ending 10-24-2020 and continuing through the most recent available week.

It's extremely simple---its only requirement is the `requests` library. Per usual, get started by creating a python environment, activating it, and installing requirements.

```bash

python -m venv ./venv

source ./venv

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

python ./scraper.py

```