Create the perfect data automaton

Completed Posted Aug 21, 2012 Paid on delivery
Completed Paid on delivery

Below is a detailed description of what we do on a regular basis - this project is to automate as much as possible of the steps below so that I end up with a bot that I can run whenever needed, on whatever spreadsheet I want to use. The most important for me is to be able to identify, via a Google Search, whether a given property is listed for sale on an online website or not (or has recently been listed). See the detail below, and then clarify what steps you will automate in your bid. If you're not able to automate all steps, that's OK, clarify in your bid. I'm looking for a bot that we can host in the cloud or in Google Docs, and then run on whatever data file we have that comes in, as long as I format it to meet your programming needs (e.g. relabel column headers so they read "Address", "City", "State", "Zip", for example). Deliverable will be to provide a program that is hosted (we don't have a server, and are cloud-based) either as a file within Google Docs, or within [url removed, login to view], or even locally on my machine, that outputs into an Excel Spreadsheet, or better still, a Google Spreadsheet.

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Look at the attached spreadsheet to see what data is being requested - columns G through U

The spreadsheet currently includes 1 property address by way of example. The winner will receive the same spreadsheet w/326 property addresses.

For Column G: go to [url removed, login to view], copy the full address into the search bar. If property reads "For Sale", enter "Yes", else "No"

For H - N - enter data from Zillow popup balloon into appropriate columns

For O & P - click on the property address in the Zillow popup balloon, then scroll down to Price History - if you see under Description "Sold", enter the date into P and the price into O (see attachment "[url removed, login to view]" with comment boxes)

For Q - go to [url removed, login to view] - copy the address into the search bar. Then click on the Comparables tab, at the bottom of the resulting screen you will see a button named "View all comparables". Click it, then click on the Recently sold homes tab below the map. You should see the results as in attachment "[url removed, login to view]"). For Column Q, enter the value in bold at the bottom of the "Sold price" column, for row named "Average"

For R-U, go back to Google browser, copy address from spreadsheet directly into google browser. You are looking for information about whether the property was recently (or is currently) listed or not. For that, look down the list of search results for anything with the letters "MLS" or "MLS#" in the title. (Note: if you see results from [url removed, login to view] - it usually provides the best info for columns R-U - see attachment "[url removed, login to view]" for detail on R-U)

For R - use the Est. Price or List Price from the webpage

For S - (if using [url removed, login to view]) use the Last Listed field

For T - use the Status field

For U - copy the URL of the page you found

There will be more of these types of projects in the future.

Data Entry Excel Web Scraping Web Search

Project ID: #2422163

About the project

17 proposals Remote project Active Aug 22, 2012

Awarded to:

vbexcel

Web scraping pro - ten years experience.

$390 USD in 5 days
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5.4

17 freelancers are bidding on average $432 for this job

ehsankayani

HI, Kindly see details in PMB Thank you

$400 USD in 3 days
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HemantJeur

Hello Brad, Experienced with Zillow. Please check PM. Thanks, Hemant

$500 USD in 10 days
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EXPERTSCODERS

HI, I am automation expert. Thanks

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ramlak

Experienced Techies at your service. I can complete this job with quality, error free automation tool

$250 USD in 6 days
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renanreis

Hi. I can help you automate this process

$250 USD in 7 days
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2.7
dzemens

Greetings Brad- This can all be automated in Excel and Internet Explorer using VBA/macros. This macro would leverage your existing XLS template with minimal/no changes required, and would open an instance of IE behi More

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creatdesign

Hello Sir, I am confidant of completing the work, rather surpassing your expectations. Check PM, Thanks.

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khannanikhil01

hii, i am interested for this project sir pls hire me i need work thanx

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varun8211

We can create a bot to scrap data from Zillow as mentioned by you.

$750 USD in 5 days
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premiumjobs612

more details

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geuniuswork04

please see my pm

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jeee

Hi, I send the SMALL SAMPLE FILE.. CHECK IT AND RESPOND ME.. Thank You.. Regards Jee

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nbhattacharjee

Hi, Please contact us for further detail. We're a team of expert in various languages and we've developed many scripts and GUI till now for scrapping kind of task.

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shafiq1234

my best skill is data entry.

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infiniumsol

Hello, DO NOT JUDGE ME BY MY PROFILE ON FREELANCER. I am new to the site. Please check my other profile, that i have provided in PM. I have a zillow scraper which not only scrapes property related details (Col G thro More

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usha7770

Dear Sir, I am ready to deliver you the project. Would you please provide me other details in your private message. Thanks and regards

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