OrchidWatch

A product scraping Spring Boot application to never miss new orchids again ;)

Table of contents

• Background
• Roadmap
• Usage
• Have a question? Want to chat?

📜 Background

One day after missing several rare orchids I got the idea to write an Android app that notifies me about new orchids in webshops of my choice. That also was a great opportunity to write my first "real world" Spring Boot application and learn more about microservices.

🛣 Roadmap

• OrchidWatch API
  • Scraping Microservice
    • Use RemoteWebDriver for Selenium
    • Scrape products (in this case orchids) from websites
    • Send scraped products to a queue
    • Edit things like scrape intervals
  • Orchids Microservice
    • Receive products from queue
    • Add products to database, if they don't exist already
  • Gateway Microservice
    • Put microservices behind gateway
    • Gateway authentication
      • Keycloak for identity and access management
  • Firebase Cloud Messaging Microservice
    • Notify clients about newly found products

• OrchidWatch Android Client
  • OrchidWatch API login
  • List with all scraped products
    • Sort products by criteria like price
    • Click on list item opens website with product
  • Push notification when new products were found

📬 Have a question? Want to chat?

Write me a mail 📧

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chat with me on matrix 💬. :)