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Re:Selling Airbnb host addresses to hotels and landlords by danso on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @08:45PM (#9542883)
> Am building a service that harvests Airbnb listings and identifies the address of apartments being rented out by hosts.

> note: I am neither crawling or scraping Airbnb's listings, just connecting patterns pragmatically to identify hosts addresses.

Could you clarify?

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Re:Selling Airbnb host addresses to hotels and landlords by jamesJones on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @08:52PM (#9542909)
oops that's a typo. Am screen scraping some of the Host's basic information and then looking into other sites to find a pattern that identifies them. From there I look up their address.
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