Lianjia data scraper is an application for automatic data extraction from Lianjia. You can use it to scrape almost any data from Lianjia, and save it to an XLSX file. Shortly – It’s the same as if you copied the information with mouse, only automatically.
Lianjia is a Chinese real estate brokerage company founded in 2001. As of 2019, it had about 6,000 brokerage offices and more than 120,000 brokers.
In Beijing, it held 55-60% of the real estate brokerage market. As of 2019, Lianjia had 51 subsidiaries, all of which were related to real estate services such as building apartments for long-term leases, real estate financing or finishing. By 2018, Lianjia’s market value reached $6 billion.
Why scrape data from Lianjia?
Lianjia what is the reason for scraping? As an agent, you can retrieve thousands of real estate listings from the site and offer them to your clients. We also our clients use our scraper to: Filling your own sites with real estate listings. You can fill your subject group with new material. The second is a research work associated with the collection of statistical information. We also use scraping for personal purposes, to calculate the most profitable offers.
So, at the bottom line. The main goal of Lianjia data scraping is to attract an audience to your project. Secondly, to gather a database for active sales, or to analyze the data for some scientific purpose. In any case, data scraping helps you make good money in a short period of time.
Is scraping Lianjia legal?
It is absolutely legal to scrape publicly available data such as product descriptions, prices, ratings, or reviews. So yes, scraping any publicly available data from Lianjia is legal. But wait, it’s not that simple.
In fact – from a legal standpoint, scraping restrictions may arise in the extraction of personal data. Be careful when extracting information such as username, phone number, address, e-mail, and the like.
Lianjia data scraper is an automatic program that emulates user behavior. in summary, It is just as legitimate as if you were manually copying information line by line.
What data can I pull from the Lianjia pages?
Obviously, we have a simple answer. You can scrape almost any kind of data from Lianjia. Literally, anything you want. Just click on the items on the page, and start the scraper. As an example, here’s a list of fields we extract from Lianjia:
- Images
- Name
- Price
- Location
- Full description
- Open Doors Days
Also, please note. This is only a sample list of fields. You can add or remove any fields for scraping. And yes, it’s very easy to do. All you have to do – is click on items on the page.
How do I start with Data Excavator?
Basically, to use Lianjia scraper you need to download our main application – Data Excavator. This can be done in the download section (clickable).
Firstly, install the Data Excavator app. Note that the application runs in a Windows environment. You need the .NET Framework 4.7.2 (Can be downloaded here) and VC++ Redistributable 2019 (Can be downloaded here) packages installed for scraper to work correctly.
So, you have downloaded and installed the application. Now you need a demo key for a month of free work. You can get it inside the app, or go to the section to get the demo key (clickable). Fill in the Email field and your name. Then, we will send you the key to your email.
Finally, launch the application. Click the “New Project” in the main menu. Enter the link to any Lianjia page. Then, select the items you want to extract. Just move the mouse over the page and click on the items. Sounds easy, doesn’t it?
So now you have an idea of how to use the Lianjia data scraper. As you can see, it is not very hard. Despite the fact that scraping seems complicated – it is not always so. And our application demonstrates it perfectly. It’s as easy as clicking on a page and pressing a few buttons. We hope you enjoy the experience.
What else?
In fact, you can scrape any amount of data from the Lianjia website. It will be fast, inexpensive, and most importantly, legal. Just use our app, and follow the instructions.
In case you have any difficulties. Just contact us! At the very least, we’ll have a great conversation. At the most, we will solve your problems. Moreover, we can get great emotions from working together! So, you can contact our support team through feedback (clickable).
And finally, a selection of quick links. Have fun scraping!