Autolotse — be the first call on a new listing
A good car is sold in the first hour.
You get it in the first minute.
Autolotse watches willhaben.at around the clock and sends every new car that matches your search straight to Telegram — with the link, the price, the mileage and, where the advert has one, a phone number you can tap.
Built for people who buy to sell: dealers, exporters, dismantlers. Not a browser extension and not a website you have to remember to open. It runs on your own machine or your own server, and it keeps running while you are asleep.
A listing going online, and the alert arriving
Everything on one page. No files, no commands.
Open it and this is what you see: every car it has found for you, each one a click from the advert, the dealer's number right there. This list stays after the Telegram message has scrolled away.
Brand, model, price, mileage, year, region, fuel, gearbox — from dropdowns. Words you never want to see, like Unfall or Bastler, go in one field.
One button runs the search against willhaben right now and shows what you would have been sent. Adjust it, run it again, then keep it.
Pause one search or all of them. Quiet hours hold the night back and hand you one summary at breakfast instead of waking you.
What it does that a saved search does not
Every 30–60 seconds, day and night. The alert reaches your phone with the advert link while the seller is still putting theirs down. On a car that is priced well, being second is worth nothing.
Dealers price at market. The margin sits with the private seller who wants the car gone this week. One checkbox leaves out everyone else.
Autolotse keeps every listing it sees, so it can say how this car sits against the going rate for the same model, year and mileage — not merely that it is new.
Cars you were sent are checked again afterwards. When the seller cuts the price you hear about it — someone who gives way online gives way on the phone.
Two independent guards: a watermark on the newest listing seen, and the last 500 advert ids per search. A re-listed or bumped advert does not wake you again.
If willhaben changes its pages, or checks stop going through, it says so in your chat and restarts itself. Going quiet is the one thing a monitor must never do.
About those phone numbers
Dealers publish a number, and it arrives in the alert as a link — one tap and your phone dials. We checked that on live adverts, not in theory.
Private sellers do not. Willhaben routes them through its own message form, so there is no number to pass on; for those cars the value is the link and the head start. Anyone promising you private sellers' phone numbers is describing something that is not on the page.
Built for people who buy to sell
Buy under market, tidy it up, move it on. One car bought €500 below what you would otherwise have paid covers the whole system.
Austria to Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, the Balkans. You buy a profile rather than a brand — so run six searches at once and let them all report.
Engine damage, accident, project cars. The adverts everyone else filters out are the ones you want, so filter for them instead.
Running in about fifteen minutes
You create a Telegram bot with @BotFather — two questions, about a minute. The bot belongs to your own account.
We install it: on your Mac, or on a €5 server so it keeps working with your computer switched off.
You paste the token into one box on the panel. No configuration file to edit, nothing to install by hand.
Build your first search. The first check runs within a minute and shows you straight away what it catches.
$500 once. The source code is yours.
Installed on your machine or your server, set up together with you, the full source code handed over, and a German quick-guide your staff can follow. No subscription, no per-alert fee, no account with us.
- → Installation on your Mac or Linux server
- → Unlimited searches, unlimited alerts
- → The control panel, in German
- → Full source code, yours to keep
- → 30 days of support after handover
Willhaben will change its pages eventually — every site does. With a maintenance agreement we keep it working and you never find out the hard way. Without one, you hold the code and can have anyone fix it.
Before you ask
Do I need a server?
No — it runs on your own Mac and you double-click one icon. But a laptop that goes to sleep stops finding cars, so if you want the three-in-the-morning listings, a small server at about €5 a month is the honest answer. We set up either.
What happens when willhaben changes its website?
Autolotse notices and tells you in Telegram instead of going quiet — that alarm was built before any of the features. Repairing it is a small change in one file, which is what the maintenance agreement covers; and you hold the source either way.
Will I be buried in messages?
The first check marks everything already on the site as seen, so you start from now rather than from a thousand old adverts. A too-wide search is capped per cycle, quiet hours hold the night back to one morning summary, and one button pauses everything.
Does my data go anywhere?
No. It runs on your machine, the database sits beside it, and alerts go to your own Telegram bot. There is no account with us and no server in the middle — so we cannot see what you search for, which for most buyers is the point.
Can it watch another site as well?
The part that knows about willhaben is deliberately one file. Mobile.de, AutoScout24 or Kleinanzeigen mean a new file and the same everything else — ask us for a quote.
Autolotse is an independent product by LABONNI. It is not operated by, endorsed by, or affiliated with willhaben internet service GmbH & Co KG. „willhaben" is their trademark, used here only to say which site Autolotse works with.