Utils methods¶

otodom.utils.get_cookie_from(response)¶

Parameters:	response – a requests.response object
Return type:	string
Returns:	cookie information as string

otodom.utils.get_csrf_token(html_content)¶

Parameters:	html_content – a requests.response.content object
Return type:	string
Returns:	the CSRF token as string

otodom.utils.get_region_from_autosuggest(region_part)¶

This method makes a request to the OtoDom api, asking for the best fitting region for the supplied region_part string.

Parameters:	region_part – input string, it should be a part of an existing region in Poland, either city, street, district or voivodeship
Return type:	dict
Returns:	A dictionary which contents depend on the API response.

otodom.utils.get_region_from_filters(filters)¶

This method does a similiar thing as scrape.utils.get_region_from_autosuggest() but instead of calling the API, it uses the data provided in the filters

Parameters:	filters – dict, see `scrape.category.get_category()` for reference
Return type:	dict
Returns:	A dictionary which contents depend on the filters content.

otodom.utils.get_response_for_url(url)¶

Parameters:	url – an url, most likely from the `scrape.utils.get_url()` method
Returns:	a requests.response object

otodom.utils.get_url(main_category, detail_category, region, ads_per_page='', page=None, **filters)¶

This method builds a ready-to-use url based on the input parameters.

Parameters:	main_category – see `scrape.category.get_category()` for reference detail_category – see `scrape.category.get_category()` for reference region – see `scrape.category.get_category()` for reference ads_per_page – ”?nrAdsPerPage=72” can be used to lower the amount of requests page – page number filters – see `scrape.category.get_category()` for reference
Return type:	string
Returns:	the url