Rental Bot

This repository contains a small Telegram bot that scrapes several Dutch rental websites.

Requirements

• Python 3.9 or newer

Setup

1. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Set the following environment variables before running the bot:
   • TELEGRAM_TOKEN – Telegram bot token.
   • TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID – one or more chat IDs (comma separated) to receive notifications.
   • CITY – city to search (e.g. Apeldoorn).
   • PRICE_RANGE – price range, e.g. 0-1500.

Running the bot

Execute:

python main.py

Running tests

Use pytest to run the unit tests:

pytest

Offline development

Sample HTML and JSON files for each scraper are available in tests/data/. These are snapshots of actual pages from the various rental sites. You can use them to develop and test the scrapers offline and to experiment with extracting additional fields.