Data · dataset · 2018
Bay Area Craigslist Rental Housing Posts
Listed in BERD@NFDI Data Portal
The "Bay Area Craigslist Rental Housing Posts" dataset is a comprehensive, publicly available collection of archived apartment rental listings from the San Francisco Bay Area, scraped from the Wayback Machine between September 2000 and July 2018.
Description
It includes detailed information such as rent price, number of bedrooms, square footage, location, listing date, and descriptive text, offering a rare longitudinal view of housing market dynamics across a major U.S. metropolitan region where official rental data is limited or unavailable.
The dataset was compiled using custom Python scripts with BeautifulSoup and Selenium to navigate archived Craigslist pages, enabling researchers to study long-term rent trends, neighborhood-level changes, and housing affordability across the Bay Area.
Links
Where it is published
- BERD@NFDI Data Portal record berd-platform.de/records/yphmp-ees33 ↗
landing page · from berd platform de
Catalogue records · 1
- InvenioRDM API berd-platform.de/api/records/yphmp-ees33 ↗
metadata API · from berd platform de
Topics
- Stated by source
- Housing market · Rent
- From keywords
- Economics & Finance · Social Science
- Inferred from text
- Longitudinal study 65% · Text 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 12 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERD@NFDI Data Portal | yphmp-ees33 | 11 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · berd platform de | connector:berd_platform_de@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:economics-finance | mapping · berd platform de | connector:berd_platform_de@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · berd platform de | connector:berd_platform_de@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[method].local:method:longitudinal-study | enrichment · berd platform de | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:text | enrichment · berd platform de | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[topic].invenio_subject:berd_platform_de:housing-market | source · berd platform de | connector:berd_platform_de@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[topic].invenio_subject:berd_platform_de:rent | source · berd platform de | connector:berd_platform_de@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · berd platform de | connector:berd_platform_de@1.0.0 | /metadata/description |
| license | source · berd platform de | connector:berd_platform_de@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · berd platform de | connector:berd_platform_de@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · berd platform de | connector:berd_platform_de@1.0.0 | /metadata/title |
| updated_date | source · berd platform de | connector:berd_platform_de@1.0.0 |