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🔹 Car Rental Price Scraper
👤 Client: 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom Member since 2026-04-03
💰 Price: $69 Average bid
🚩 Problem: Automatically scrape live pricing details for car rentals from various sources including rental company sites and aggregators.
📦 Existing: Not specified

Specifications:

[Target] Car rental websites and aggregator platforms
[Method] Python with BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Playwright, or Scrapy
[UI/UX] Command-line interface for rerunning the script; optional small web UI for monitoring
[Stack] Python, BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Playwright, Scrapy, Flask (for web UI), PostgreSQL (for logs)
[Security] Rotate user-agents and proxies to avoid detection; log errors for failed requests
[Format] Output as CSV or JSON with vehicle class, daily and total price, currency, taxes & fees, and URL of origin

Workflow:

1. Define target URLs and identify dynamic elements (date pickers, location selectors) using browser developer tools.
2. Develop scraping logic for each site type: direct rental companies vs aggregators, handling different login requirements if any.
3. Implement anti-bot tactics such as rotating user-agents and proxies to avoid detection by web scrapers.
4. Set up error logging mechanism to ensure no data loss due to failed requests.
5. Create command-line interface for easy rerunning of the script; develop a small web UI if requested.
6. Test against at least one aggregator site and one direct rental company site, providing demo video or screenshots.