Second hand electric car belgian market analyzer

A Python application for analyzing the second hand electric car belgian market by scraping and visualizing data from various car listing websites.

Features

• Scrapes electric car listings from multiple sources (Autoscout24, 2ememain, Gocar)
• Cleans and normalizes data
• Provides interactive visualizations
• Real-time data updates

Setup

1. Clone the repository
2. Install requirements:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Create a .env file with your API tokens (use .env.example as a template):

   GOCAR_BEARER_TOKEN=your_token_here
   

4. Run the application:

   python main.py

Configuration

The application uses a central config.py file for managing paths and settings. The following directories will be created automatically:

• results/ (for storing scraped data)
• visualizations/ (for storing generated plots)
• logs/ (for application logs)

Directory Structure

electric-car-market-analyzer/
│
├── src/
│   ├── sites/
│   │   ├── autoscout24/
│   │   ├── deuxieme_main/
│   │   └── gocar/
│   ├── data/
│   └── visualization/
│
├── results/
├── logs/
├── config.py
├── logging_config.py
├── main.py
└── requirements.txt

Logging

The application uses Python's logging module for all output. Logs are stored in the logs/ directory and are also output to the console.

License

MIT License

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.