kill-the-scout

README

kill-the-scout

Tired if pressing F5 all day on the immobilienscout24 search-page? Use this simple script to to check immobilienscout24 and get notifications for new exposes/flats via email.

Note: KillTheScout will only scrape the last 20 entries from the search-page.

Configuration

Create an .env-file in the root-folder and adjust the settings accordingly:

SMTP_SERVER=smtp.gmail.com:587
SMTP_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
SMTP_USER=login@gmail.com
SMTP_PASS=password

IMMO_SEARCH_URL=https://www.immobilienscout24.de/Suche/de/baden-wuerttemberg/stuttgart/wohnung-mieten?price=-4048.0&geocodes=1276001039002&sorting=2&enteredFrom=result_list
IMMO_INTERVAL_SECONDS=180s
MAIL_TO=mail-me-exposes@mail.com

Install & Run

Install golang, clone this repo and execute the following commands:

# install go dependencies
> go install

# install selenium dependencies (inside _vendor)
_vendor > go run init.go

# run main application
> go run main.go

Todo

1. Find solution when immo24 robot-detection was triggered (because of an to aggressive scrape intervall).
2. Load detail pages with a random delay to avoid robot-detection.