OpenRent Scraper: Capture Real-Time UK Rental Property Insights

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

REQUEST_HEADERS = {
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36",
"Accept-Language": "en-GB,en;q=0.9",
}

def scrape_openrent_property(property_url):
try:
page = requests.get(
property_url,
headers=REQUEST_HEADERS,
timeout=15
)
page.raise_for_status()
except requests.RequestException:
return None

parser = BeautifulSoup(page.text, "html.parser")

def extract(selector):
element = parser.select_one(selector)
return element.get_text(" ", strip=True) if element else "N/A"

return {
"Property Title": extract("h1"),
"Rental Price": extract(".price"),
"Location": extract(".location"),
"Bedrooms": extract(".bedrooms"),
"Property Type": extract(".property-type"),
"Availability": extract(".availability"),
}

# Example OpenRent property URL
openrent_property_url = "https://www.openrent.co.uk/property/example"
property_data = scrape_openrent_property(openrent_property_url)

if property_data:
print(property_data)
else:
print("Unable to retrieve property data.")