Get Airbnb Data Without Scraping

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import time
import random

# Proxy rotation ($50-200/mo)
PROXIES = [
    "http://proxy1.example.com:8080",
    "http://proxy2.example.com:8080",
    "http://proxy3.example.com:8080",
]

# CAPTCHA solving service ($50/mo)
CAPTCHA_API_KEY = "your_captcha_service_key"

# Headers to avoid bot detection (breaks every 2-4 weeks)
HEADERS = {
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) "
                  "AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
                  "Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml",
    "Referer": "https://www.airbnb.com/",
    "Connection": "keep-alive",
}

def scrape_listing(listing_id):
    proxy = random.choice(PROXIES)
    try:
        response = requests.get(
            f"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/{listing_id}",
            headers=HEADERS,
            proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy},
            timeout=30,
        )

        if response.status_code == 403:
            # Handle CAPTCHA — requires solving service
            raise Exception("CAPTCHA detected, need solving service")

        if response.status_code != 200:
            raise Exception(f"HTTP {response.status_code}")

        soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")

        # These selectors break every 2-4 weeks when
        # Airbnb updates their HTML structure
        title = soup.select_one("[data-section-id='TITLE'] h1")
        price = soup.select_one("[data-testid='price-element']")
        rating = soup.select_one("[data-testid='rating']")

        # No revenue data, no occupancy, no percentiles
        # No historical data, no comparable analysis
        return {
            "title": title.text if title else None,
            "price": price.text if price else None,
            "rating": rating.text if rating else None,
        }

    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error scraping {listing_id}: {e}")
        return None

    finally:
        # Rate limiting to avoid IP bans
        time.sleep(random.uniform(3, 8))

# Result: fragile, incomplete, expensive, legally risky