Preiswecker

Installation

1. Install docker and docker-compose
2. Copy .env.example to .env
3. Run application with docker-compose up
4. Visit https://localhost to use the application

Components

The application is made up of the components listed below:

Crawler

Responsible for crawling geizhals.de API

Scheduler

Schedules background tasks, such as checking if a product fell below a certain price

REST-API

Application core that does user-management, authentication and alerting. Only component with database access. The public endpoint is https://preiswecker.spyfly.xyz/api

MongoDB

Storage of user-data and alerts

Reverse Proxy

SSL-Termination and exposing the frontend and the public parts of the rest-api publicly

Web App

The website, which can be accessed under https://preiswecker.spyfly.xyz

Browser Extension

Allows users to directly create price-alerts from the geizhals.de website.

Documentation

For a more detailed documentation visit the _docs folder