fredy/README.md

# Fredy 🏡 – Your Self-Hosted Real Estate Finder for Germany

Finding an apartment or house in Germany can be stressful and
time-consuming.\
**Fredy** makes it easier: it automatically scrapes **ImmoScout24,
Immowelt, Immonet, eBay Kleinanzeigen, and WG-Gesucht** and notifies you
instantly via **Slack, Telegram, Email, ntfy, and more** when new
listings appear.

With a modern architecture, Fredy provides a **clean Web UI**, removes
duplicates across platforms, and stores results so you never see the
same listing twice.

<img src="https://github.com/orangecoding/fredy/blob/master/doc/logo.png" width="400">

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## ✨ Key Features

-   🏠 Scrapes **ImmoScout24, Immowelt, Immonet, eBay Kleinanzeigen,
    WG-Gesucht**
-   ⚡ Instant notifications: Slack, Telegram, Email (SendGrid,
    Mailjet), ntfy
-   🔎 Uses the **ImmoScout Mobile API** (reverse engineered)
-   🌍 Runs anywhere: Docker, Node.js, self-hosted
-   🖥️ Intuitive **Web UI** to manage searches
-   🎯 Easy to use thanks to a user-friendly Web UI
-   🔄 Deduplication across platforms
-   ⏱️ Customizable search intervals

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## 🤝 Sponsorship [![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Sponsor&message=❤&logo=GitHub&color=%23fe8e86)](https://github.com/sponsors/orangecoding)

I maintain Fredy and other open-source projects in my free time.\
If you find it useful, consider supporting the project 💙

Fredy is proudly backed by the JetBrains  **JetBrains Open Source Support Program**.   
[<img src="https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/company/brand/logos/jetbrains.svg" alt="JetBrains" width="120"/>](https://jb.gg/OpenSourceSupport)

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## 🚀 Quick Start

### With Docker

``` bash
docker pull ghcr.io/orangecoding/fredy:master
docker create --name fredy -v /path/to/your/conf/:/conf -p 9998:9998 fredy/fredy
docker start fredy
```

Logs:

``` bash
docker logs fredy -f
```

### Manual (Node.js)

-   Requirement: **Node.js 20 or higher**
-   Install dependencies and start:

``` bash
yarn
yarn run start:backend   # in one terminal
yarn run start:frontend  # in another terminal
```

👉 Open <http://localhost:9998>

**Default Login:**
- Username: `admin`
- Password: `admin`

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## 📸 Screenshots

| Job Configuration | Job Analytics | Job Overview |
|-------------------|--------------|--------------|
| ![Screenshot showing job configuration in Fredy](doc/screenshot1.png) | ![Screenshot showing job analytics in Fredy](doc/screenshot_2.png) | ![Screenshot showing job overview in Fredy](doc/screenshot_3.png) |

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## 🧩 Core Concepts

Fredy is built around three simple concepts:

### Provider 🌐

A **provider** is a real-estate platform (e.g. ImmoScout24, Immowelt,
Immonet, eBay Kleinanzeigen, WG-Gesucht).\
When you create a job, you paste the search URL from the platform into
Fredy.\
⚠️ Always make sure the search results are sorted by **date**, so Fredy
picks up the newest listings first.

### Adapter 📡

An **adapter** is the channel through which Fredy notifies you (Slack,
Telegram, Email, ntfy, ...).\
Each adapter has its own configuration (e.g. API keys, webhook URLs).\
You can use multiple adapters at once --- Fredy will send new listings
through all of them.

### Job 📅

A **job** combines providers and adapters.\
Example: "Search apartments on ImmoScout24 + Immowelt and send results
to Slack + Telegram."\
Jobs run automatically at the interval you configure (see
`/conf/config.json`).

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## Immoscout

Immoscout has implemented advanced bot detection. In order to work around this, we are using a reversed engineered version of their mobile api. See [Immoscout Reverse Engineering Documentation](https://github.com/orangecoding/fredy/blob/master/reverse-engineered-immoscout.md)

## Analytics

Fredy is completely free (and will always remain free). However, it would be a huge help if you’d allow me to collect some analytical data.
Before you freak out, let me explain...  
If you agree, Fredy will send a ping to my Mixpanel project each time it runs.  
The data includes: names of active adapters/providers, OS, architecture, Node version, and language. The information is entirely anonymous and helps me understand which adapters/providers are most frequently used.</p>

**Thanks**🤘

## 🛠️ Development

### Development Mode

``` bash
yarn run start:backend:dev
yarn run start:frontend:dev
```
You should now be able to access _Fredy_ from your browser. Check your Terminal to see what port the frontend is running on.

### Run Tests

``` bash
yarn run test
```

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## 📐 Architecture

``` mermaid
flowchart TD
 subgraph Jobs["Jobs"]
        A1["Job 1"]
        A2["Job 2"]
        A3["Job 3"]
  end
 subgraph Providers["Providers"]
        C1["Provider 1"]
        C2["Provider 2"]
        C3["Provider 3"]
  end
 subgraph NotificationAdapters["Notification Adapters"]
        F1["Adapter 1"]
        F2["Adapter 2"]
  end

    A1 --> B["FredyRuntime"]
    A2 --> B
    A3 --> B
    B --> C1 & C2 & C3
    C1 --> D["Similarity Check"]
    C2 --> D
    C3 --> D
    D --> E{"Duplicate?"}
    E -- No --> F1
    F1 --> F2
```

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## 👐 Contributing

Thanks to everyone who has contributed!

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See the [Contributing
Guide](https://github.com/orangecoding/fredy/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).

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## ⭐ Star History

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