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Do you scrape those sites, or use their rss feeds or ... ? I think it's a great concept, just wonder about the legality of it.



We have contracts with and datafeeds from all of them. We've been in business since 2006, in Germany since 2008.

We work very closely with our partners to try to improve the data. It's not always easy. I gave a talk about this at csv,conf in Berlin in July, slides are here: http://www.slideshare.net/lokku/a-living-hell-lessons-learne...


Great slides, thanks a lot for the link.

"Unless you hate life, do NOT try to scrape real estate data"

With this conclusion, do you mean web scraping or just processing the datafeeds of your partners?


Haha, I went through a smaller-scale version of those problems, and your presentation is spot-on :) , I can totally relate.




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