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Re:Ask HN: Who is looking for help on their side project? (M... by matt_s on Thursday May 03, 2018 @08:03AM (#16985148)
I've had ideas in the real estate area of apps. Do you plan on getting access to MLS data (I assume you are in US). That has always been the barrier to just trying out some things. It seems there is a paywall of sorts to get access to the systems that hold the actual listing data.
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Re:Ask HN: Who is looking for help on their side project? (M... by realty_geek on Thursday May 03, 2018 @04:41PM (#16989756)
I'm based in Spain but I have worked with some US clients. Yes MLS access is a pain. I have some open source code for accessing MLS data in this project (which PWB uses):

https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper

In many cases though it was easier to just scrape the data I needed directly from real estate websites

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