readme1.md

title	author	date	output
Web technology with R	Hui Li	November 10, 2015	pdf_document toc toc_depth true 2

using API

http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/GetSearchResults.htm

library(knitr)
opts_chunk$set(tidy = TRUE, cache=TRUE, autodep=TRUE, message=FALSE)

library(httr)
library(rvest)
library(magrittr)
library(ggmap)

## Loading required package: ggplot2
## Google Maps API Terms of Service: http://developers.google.com/maps/terms.
## Please cite ggmap if you use it: see citation('ggmap') for details.
## 
## Attaching package: 'ggmap'
## 
## The following object is masked from 'package:magrittr':
## 
##     inset

library(stringr)
library(knitr)
sample <- GET("http://www.zillow.com/webservice/GetSearchResults.htm", 
              query = list('zws-id' = "X1-ZWz1f063o0dzij_7yjzz", 
                           address = "2114 Bigelow Ave",
                           citystatezip = "Seattle, WA"))

result <- content(sample)

zpid <- result %>% html_node("zpid")%>%html_text()
amount <- result %>% html_node("amount")%>%html_text()
low <- result %>% html_node("low")%>%html_text()
high <- result %>% html_node("high")%>%html_text()
valueChange30Day <- result %>% html_node("valueChange")%>%html_text()
kable(data.frame(zpid,amount,low,high,valueChange30Day))

zpid	amount	low	high	valueChange30Day
48749425	1425219	1339706	1539237	144

Explore Zillow data using rvest

Hui adapted from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/notesofdabbler/blog_notesofdabbler/master/learn_rvest/exploreZillow_w_rvest.R

# here the search is filtered to just homes for sale if there are less
# filters in search, the code will need to be modified since the css might
# be different for different types of results (eg. homes for sales vs new
# homes vs homes for rent)
url = "http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Greenwood-IN/fsba,fsbo,fore,cmsn_lt/house_type/52333_rid/39.638414,-86.011362,39.550714,-86.179419_rect/12_zm/0_mmm/"

# get list of houses for sales that appears on the page
houselist <- url %>% html() %>% html_nodes("article")

# Extract zillow id for each listing
zpid <- houselist %>% html_attr("id") %>% str_replace_all("zpid_", "")

# get the address for each listing

staddrlink <- houselist %>% html_node(".property-address a") %>% html_attr("href")
straddr <- sapply(strsplit(staddrlink, "/"), function(x) x[3])
straddr <- str_replace_all(straddr, "-", " ")

lat_lon <- geocode(straddr, source = "google")

lotsqft <- houselist %>% html_node(".lot-size") %>% html_text() %>% str_replace_all(",", 
    "")
lotsqft <- sapply(lotsqft, function(x) {
    num <- as.numeric(str_extract_all(x, "(\\d*\\.)?\\d+"))
    if (!is.na(num) & str_detect(x, "(ac|acre)")) {
        num <- num * 43560
    }
    num
})

yrbuilt <- houselist %>% html_node(".built-year") %>% html_text()
yrbuilt <- as.numeric(str_extract_all(yrbuilt, "\\d+"))

price <- houselist %>% html_node(".price-large") %>% html_text() %>% gsub("[\\$a-zA-Z,]", 
    "", .) %>% as.numeric()

# house parameters (number of beds, baths, house area)
houseparams <- houselist %>% html_node(".property-data") %>% html_text()
houseparamsSplit <- strsplit(houseparams, ", ")
## get number of beds
numbeds <- sapply(houseparamsSplit, function(x) as.numeric(strsplit(x[1], " ")[[1]][1]))
## get number of baths
numbaths <- sapply(houseparamsSplit, function(x) as.numeric(strsplit(x[1], " ")[[1]][4]))

housesqft <- sapply(houseparamsSplit, function(x) strsplit(x[1], " ")[[1]][7]) %>% 
    str_replace_all(",", "") %>% as.numeric()

# houseData <-
# data.frame(zpid,price,yrbuilt,numbeds,numbaths,housesqft,lotsqft,straddr)
houseData <- data.frame(zpid, price, yrbuilt, numbeds, numbaths, housesqft, 
    lotsqft, straddr, lat_lon)
kable(houseData)

zpid	price	yrbuilt	numbeds	numbaths	housesqft	lotsqft	straddr	lon	lat
85463712	110000	1996	3	2.0	1309	4487.0	1310 Kenwood Dr Greenwood IN 46143	-86.11026	39.59830
85462889	105000	2001	3	2.0	1105	6272.0	1406 Osprey Way Greenwood IN 46143	-86.08745	39.59663
85448263	185000	1978	4	2.0	3240	50529.6	3981 Shadow Hill Ln Greenwood IN 46142	-86.17611	39.61510
85461720	174900	2001	3	3.0	2304	9496.0	1363 Butternut Ln Greenwood IN 46143	-86.08107	39.59698
85453784	184900	1999	3	3.0	2159	9147.0	1296 White Ash Dr Greenwood IN 46143	-86.16785	39.59782
85443594	164900	1994	3	2.0	1444	5662.0	1630 Foxmere Way Greenwood IN 46142	-86.15547	39.62466
97329217	135000	2007	3	3.0	1548	5837.0	1495 Pencross Ln Greenwood IN 46143	-86.08436	39.59594
85462881	114900	2002	3	2.0	1288	5314.0	1502 Osprey Way Greenwood IN 46143	-86.08744	39.59552
85442691	104900	1960	3	2.0	1120	12196.8	705 Sunset Blvd Greenwood IN 46142	-86.12389	39.62543
85456431	150000	2005	4	3.0	2244	10454.0	1009 Boxwood Ln Greenwood IN 46143	-86.08094	39.59093
85465823	113000	2000	3	2.5	1507	4486.0	2349 Harvest Moon Dr Greenwood IN 46143	-86.10438	39.58217
85443260	95000	1935	2	2.0	1144	32670.0	1354 Fry Rd Greenwood IN 46142	-86.14440	39.62817
85438343	89900	1986	3	2.0	1068	9147.0	1081 Laura Dr Greenwood IN 46143	-86.10480	39.63340
85440378	149900	1960	4	2.0	2628	20473.2	630 Averitt Rd Greenwood IN 46142	-86.12081	39.60645
85464694	129900	2000	3	2.0	1275	9408.0	2520 Longleaf Dr Greenwood IN 46143	-86.12179	39.58188
85444318	144900	2003	2	2.0	1252	6534.0	906 Lincoln Park West Dr Greenwood IN 46142	-86.16545	39.63080
2111293141	149900	2015	2	2.0	1294	9844.0	3890 Kristi Way Greenwood IN 46142	-86.17486	39.63060
124613582	375000	2013	4	3.0	4074	15246.0	1325 Brentford Ln Greenwood IN 46143	-86.14453	39.58283
97329484	132000	2008	3	3.0	2006	5662.0	598 Greenway St Greenwood IN 46143	-86.09505	39.59972
85461342	170500	2000	2	2.0	1858	9147.0	1363 Flintlock Dr Greenwood IN 46143	-86.07501	39.59862
85442299	229900	1980	4	2.0	2032	11325.6	36 Troon Ct Greenwood IN 46143	-86.09281	39.60687
85440192	270000	1977	4	2.5	2827	25264.8	264 Oakwood Ct Greenwood IN 46142	-86.12170	39.61269
85441669	139900	1987	3	2.0	1560	11325.6	995 Green Pasture Ct Greenwood IN 46143	-86.08406	39.61887
85465687	109900	1999	3	3.0	1325	5967.0	151 Snowflake Cir Greenwood IN 46143	-86.10855	39.58560
85464506	169900	2003	4	3.0	1679	9801.0	808 Heatherwood Dr Greenwood IN 46143	-86.12723	39.59962

Mapping

library(ggmap)

houseData$price_cat[houseData$price > 0] <- 1
houseData$price_cat[houseData$price > 1e+05] <- 2
houseData$price_cat[houseData$price > 2e+05] <- 3
houseData$price_cat[houseData$price > 3e+05] <- 4
houseData$price_cat <- as.factor(houseData$price_cat)

theme_set(theme_bw(16))
gw_in <- qmap("Greenwood IN", color = "bw", zoom = 12)

gw_in + stat_bin2d(aes(x = lon, y = lat, price_cat, fill = price_cat), size = 0.5, 
    bins = 25, alpha = 1/2, data = houseData) + scale_fill_manual(values = c(`1` = "#c7e9c0", 
    `2` = "#74c476", `3` = "#31a354", `4` = "#006d2c"), labels = c("<100,000", 
    "100,000-200,000", "200,000-300,000", ">300,000")) + facet_grid(numbeds ~ 
    .) + theme(axis.line = element_blank(), axis.text.x = element_blank(), axis.text.y = element_blank(), 
    axis.ticks = element_blank(), axis.title.x = element_blank(), axis.title.y = element_blank(), 
    legend.text = element_text(size = 16))