Post date: Nov 07, 2016 2:33:23 PM
For the past week group has been actively working on the scraping script for the Airbnb website. As we were getting close to completing the script we have realised that Airbnb actively blocks users and IP addresses of anyone who is trying to perform scraping on their websites, which lead to a short backtrack for the group. As we were ready to proceed to the scrapping of other websites such as booking.com, one of the team members Steven, was able to figure out a way to bypass the Airbnb scrape block using the mechanise library shown to us by Tomaso back in the A term. The group is back on track and is excited to be able to continue working on the project!