I scraped 1.94M Airbnb photos for opium dens, pet cameos, and messy kitchens

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Post by jmp1062 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 2:26 PM UTC

I scraped 1.94M Airbnb photos for opium dens, pet cameos, and messy kitchens
burla-cloud.github.io

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Post by jmp1062 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 2:32 PM UTC

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Post by gavmor » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:13 PM UTC

These are amazing! Some are probably offensive, because I saw a cozy, if kitschy, British den labeled as "did-someone-just-leave" vibes which... unfair.

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Post by wheelerwj » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:22 PM UTC

This thing is ripe for a lawsuit and has terrible methodology as far as I can tell.

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Post by guywithahat » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:27 PM UTC

This is pretty great, the reviews at the bottom are the best part. I'm impressed they were able to scrape so much data

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Post by danhon » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:34 PM UTC

"Looking at every public Airbnb listing in Inside Airbnb's open data dump, all at once, on Burla"

This Inside Airbnb?

Community Guidelines

Please:

Only take the data you need. Do not scrape data from the site, if you would like to subscribe to the data directly, please email data@insideairbnb.com

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Post by yodon » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:50 PM UTC

danhon wrote: post #6

"Looking at every public Airbnb listing in Inside Airbnb's open data dump, all at once, on Burla" This Inside Airbnb? Community Guidelines Please: Only take the data you need. Do not scrape data from the site, if you would like to subscribe to the data directly, please email data@insideairbnb.com

>Everything was parallelized on Burla, on a single dynamic cluster that scaled to ~1.7K CPU workers for photo download and CLIP, with 20 A100 GPUs running embedding clusters in parallel on the same cluster.

That's a lot of budget - would have been nice if they'd made an actual donation to the project, instead of pounding the project's servers and bandwidth when there are much better ways to interact with the data.

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Post by xikrib » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:51 PM UTC

Ah yes, let's price the world out of the real estate market and then use insanely powerful AI models to systematically mock the living conditions of the poors.

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Post by NoLinkToMe » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

What a waste of energy (money/resources)... Scraping and AI-scanning 2 million photos to identify animals in the advertisement pictures? What's the point.

As an exercise a sample of 1000 photos would've been enough. As a database, knowing a listing has a cat in the picture or a funny review doesn't offer any real value.

I wonder what the footprint is of such an exercise.

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Post by xrd » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

Airbnb was actually started by two guys who created an opium den for Obama's convention so this doesn't surprise me.