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wiener-wohn-bot

Email alerts for new Vienna subsidized housing listings — the notification service the site does not have.

Python Web scraping SMTP

Vienna’s Wohnberatung portal lists subsidized apartments but never tells you when a new one appears, so the only way to use it is to check manually, forever. This polls the portal on a schedule, computes the distance from each new listing to a reference address, and sends one email per apartment with a readable summary. It tracks what it has already sent, so a cron entry is the entire deployment.

Optionally it scores listings 0–100 against criteria you define, and can submit applications to the ones that match.

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