settings.py

import os

## Price

# The minimum rent you want to pay per month.
MIN_PRICE = 1500

# The maximum rent you want to pay per month.
MAX_PRICE = 4000

## Location preferences

# The Craigslist site you want to search on.
# For instance, https://sfbay.craigslist.org is SF and the Bay Area.
# You only need the beginning of the URL.
CRAIGSLIST_SITE = 'boston'

# What Craigslist subdirectories to search on.
# For instance, https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/ is the East Bay, and https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/ is San Francisco.
# You only need the last three letters of the URLs.
AREAS = ["gbs"]

# A list of neighborhoods and coordinates that you want to look for apartments in.  Any listing that has coordinates
# attached will be checked to see which area it is in.  If there's a match, it will be annotated with the area
# name.  If no match, the neighborhood field, which is a string, will be checked to see if it matches
# anything in NEIGHBORHOODS.
BOXES = {
    "davis square": [
        [42.3909135223, -71.129693985,],
        [42.4047946835, -71.1127853394]
    ]
    # ],
    # "adams_point": [
    #     [37.80789, -122.25000],
    #     [37.81589,	-122.26081],
    # ],
    # "piedmont": [
    #     [37.82240, -122.24768],
    #     [37.83237, -122.25386],
    # ],
    # "rockridge": [
    #     [37.83826, -122.24073],
    #     [37.84680, -122.25944],
    # ],
    # "berkeley": [
    #     [37.86226, -122.25043],
    #     [37.86781, -122.26502],
    # ],
    # "north_berkeley": [
    #     [37.86425, -122.26330],
    #     [37.87655, -122.28974],
    # ],
    # "pac_heights": [
    #     [37.79124, -122.42381],
    #     [37.79850, -122.44784],
    # ],
    # "lower_pac_heights": [
    #     [37.78554, -122.42878],
    #     [37.78873, -122.44544],
    # ],
    # "haight": [
    #     [37.77059, -122.42688],
    #     [37.77086, -122.45401],
    # ],
    # "sunset": [
    #     [37.75451, -122.46422],
    #     [37.76258, -122.50825],
    # ],
    # "richmond": [
    #     [37.77188, -122.47263],
    #     [37.78029, -122.51005],
    # ],
    # "presidio": [
    #     [37.77805, -122.43959],
    #     [37.78829, -122.47151],
    # ]
}

# A list of neighborhood names to look for in the Craigslist neighborhood name field. If a listing doesn't fall into
# one of the boxes you defined, it will be checked to see if the neighborhood name it was listed under matches one
# of these.  This is less accurate than the boxes, because it relies on the owner to set the right neighborhood,
# but it also catches listings that don't have coordinates (many listings are missing this info).
# NEIGHBORHOODS = ["medford", "somerville", "arlington", "cambridge", "everett", "charlestown"]
NEIGHBORHOODS = ["somerville"]
## Transit preferences

# The farthest you want to live from a transit stop.
MAX_TRANSIT_DIST = 2 # kilometers

# Transit stations you want to check against.  Every coordinate here will be checked against each listing,
# and the closest station name will be added to the result and posted into Slack.
TRANSIT_STATIONS = {
    "davis square": [42.396800,71.121802]
    # "oakland_19th_bart": [37.8118051,-122.2720873],
    # "macarthur_bart": [37.8265657,-122.2686705],
    # "rockridge_bart": [37.841286,-122.2566329],
    # "downtown_berkeley_bart": [37.8629541,-122.276594],
    # "north_berkeley_bart": [37.8713411,-122.2849758]
}

## Search type preferences

# The Craigslist section underneath housing that you want to search in.
# For instance, https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa find apartments for rent.
# https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sub finds sublets.
# You only need the last 3 letters of the URLs.
CRAIGSLIST_HOUSING_SECTION = 'aap'

## System settings

# How long we should sleep between scrapes of Craigslist.
# Too fast may get rate limited.
# Too slow may miss listings.
SLEEP_INTERVAL = 20 #* 60 # 20 minutes

# Which slack channel to post the listings into.
SLACK_CHANNEL = "#housing"

# The token that allows us to connect to slack.
# Should be put in private.py, or set as an environment variable.
SLACK_TOKEN = 'xoxp-131242784261-131834380854-212964626486-295a8a6f8ef27e24dabd8abd64d559eb'

# Any private settings are imported here.
try:
    from private import *
except Exception:
    pass

# Any external private settings are imported from here.
try:
    from config.private import *
except Exception:
    pass