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To me, that seems a much simpler route than screen-scraping (yes, despite problems parsing CSV format). I've been involved with screen-scraping of req's for <m
by Rediscover 4y ago
To me, that seems a much simpler route than screen-scraping (yes, despite problems parsing CSV format).
I've been involved with screen-scraping of req's for <major airplane company> to produce spreadsheets for others in the same company, and I'll take FTPing the data->CSV almost any day.
* Especially when the FAA is the eventual consumer *
- tndibona 4y agoThe bigger challenge is not the ftp integration per say. The fact that all the housing data is distributed across nearly 500 MLS sites that closely guard their data and make it available only to licensed realtors. I would expect each of these MLS sites to have different formats. So trying to strike up a conversation and allowing them to let me use their FTP site is the biggest hurdle. Zillow and the rest of the big guys already have their claws deep into the MLS sites and they probably want to closely guard their pipelines. Small guys like me don’t know where to start.