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Termin (eng. appointment) is essential in Germany, especially in Berlin. Sometimes it is tough to get a termin in public institutions and this bot is a way to automate termin checks and send Telegram notifications, if free termin was found. The code could be also considered as a template for subsequent development. The principle of bot operation is to refresh a webpage with needed appointments periodically [TERMIN_URL] and to recognize the change on it. E.g., the page always contains the phrase "No free appointments" [NO_TERMIN_FOUND_STRING]. ...

...The project demonstrates stock deduction strategies designed to avoid overselling, combining pre-decrement in cache with reliable persistence and message-driven confirmation. Security hardening is addressed with ideas such as dynamic request paths, anti-bot measures, and one-time tokens to reduce automated abuse. The code showcases a typical Spring Boot stack that cleanly separates controllers, services, and persistence, making bottlenecks and optimization points easy to identify. As a study case, it provides a practical blueprint for building resilient sale/booking endpoints where fairness and correctness matter as much as raw throughput.

webStraktor is a programmable World Wide Web data extraction client. Its purpose is to scrape HTML based content via the HTTP protocol and extract relevant information. webStraktor features a scripting language to facilitate the collection, the extraction and the storage of information available on the web, including images. The scripting language uses elements of the Regular Expression and xPath syntax. The webStraktor scripting language has a small instruction set and its syntax is easy...