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> Took my city munich / germany years in curt to get the data from AirBnB.

This is so strange. Why can't the beurocrats just read the listings as everyone else? Is it too cumbersome to prove an apartment is sublet?



Yes its a lot of effort to scrape some website which might change its UI.

Also an UI is not a scraping API.

Also yes you also need proof. Just putting it online is not a problem. Even doing temporarily because you are really away for a period is fine.


You can't link a web page to the person behind it. Maybe Airbnb is in the right to offer the service in the country, it's just nobody could verify/enforce the ability to rent short term.




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