Some fixes

.gitignore

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+airbnb_scraper/settings.py
+rv-data/

README.md

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 # airbnb_scraper :spider:
 
-Spider built with scrapy and ScrapySplash to crawl listings
-
-## Checklist
-
-*This checklist is for personal use and isn't relevant to using the scraper.*
-
-- [x] Spider can successfully parse one page of listings  
-- [x] Spider can successfully parse mutliple/all pages of designated location
-- [x] Spider can take price ranges as arguments (`price_lb` and `price_ub`)
-- [x] Spider can take location as argument  
+Spider built with scrapy and ScrapySplash to crawl Airbnb and HomeAway listings of Luxembourg.
+Fork of [airbnb_scraper](https://github.com/kailu3/airbnb-scraper)
 
 ## Set up
 
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 ## Crawling
 
-Run the spider with `scrapy crawl airbnb -o {filename}.json -a city='{cityname}' -a price_lb='{pricelowerbound}' -a price_ub='{priceupperbound}'`
-
-`cityname` refers to a valid city name
-
-`pricelowerbound` refers to a lower bound for price from 0 to 999
-
-`priceupperbound` refers to upper bound for price from 0 to 999. Spider will close if `priceupperbound` is less than
-`pricelowerbound`  
-**Note: Airbnb only returns a maximum of ~300 listings per specific filter (price range). To get more listings, I recommend scraping multiple times using small increments in price and concatenating the datasets.**
-
-If you would like to do multiple scrapes over a wide price range (e.g. 10-spaced intervals from 20 to 990), see `cancun.sh` which I used to crawl a large number listings for Cancún.
+TBD
 
 ## Acknowledgements
 
-I would like to thank **Ahmed Rafik** for his guidance and teachings.
+I would like to thank **kailu3** from whom I forked this project.