README.md
In robertnavca/mobileR: Easy Way for Scraping "Mobile.de" Web

mobileR

mobileR is a web scraper for the website mobile.de. You can download the data easily and create a data frame with only one function.

You only have to type the following text in your R studio console:

library(remotes)
install_github("robertnavca/mobileR")

mobileR only has one function, mobile.de_scraping(), in with you have to paste the url of your search and it will do the work for you. It works for the English and German edition of the web. If you are user of the Spanish edition, you can paste the Spanish url edition and select “lang = ‘es’” argument. If you have any cuestion, mayby it could be solve in the examples section.

This is an example of how easy is to download data with mobileR

library(mobileR)

# Firstly, save your search url in a new object
my_search <- "https://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/search.html?damageUnrepaired=NO_DAMAGE_UNREPAIRED&isSearchRequest=true&makeModelVariant1.makeId=25200&maxMileage=150000&maxPowerAsArray=KW&maxPrice=11000&minMileage=125000&minPowerAsArray=KW&minPrice=10000&scopeId=C&sfmr=false"

# Secondly, call the mobileR main function and introduce the url object. Remember
# to save it in a new object
my_df <- mobile.de_scraping(my_search)

That’s all, now you have your data frame created.

Our data frame

If you are a Spanish user or mobile.de web you can download data from the Spanish edition of the web with the lang argument, but remember, if you introduce an English or german url it will not work.

my_search <- "https://www.mobile.de/es/veh%C3%ADculo/volkswagen/vhc:car,srt:mileage,sro:asc,ms1:25200__,frn:2015,frx:2015,prn:25000,prx:27500,ful:other!lpg!diesel!petrol!ethanol!hydrogenium!electricity,dmg:false"

my_df <- mobile.de_scraping(my_search, lang = "es")

And you will have all the work done,

Our data frame