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KLEINGEBAECK(1) User Commands KLEINGEBAECK(1)

NAME

kleingebaeck - kleinanzeigen.de backup tool

SYNOPSYS

    Usage: kleingebaeck [-dvVhmoc] [<ad-listing-url>,...]
    Options:
    -u --user    <uid>      Backup ads from user with uid <uid>.
    -d --debug              Enable debug output.
    -v --verbose            Enable verbose output.
    -o --outdir  <dir>      Set output dir (default: current directory)
    -l --limit   <num>      Limit the ads to download to <num>, default: load all.
    -c --config  <file>     Use config file <file> (default: ~/.kleingebaeck).
       --ignoreerrors       Ignore HTTP errors, may lead to incomplete ad backup.
    -f --force              Overwrite images and ads even if the already exist.
    -m --manual             Show manual.
    -h --help               Show usage.
    -V --version            Show program version.

DESCRIPTION

This tool can be used to backup ads on the german ad page <https://kleinanzeigen.de>.

It downloads all (or only the specified ones) ads of one user into a directory, each ad into its own subdirectory. The backup will contain a textfile Adlisting.txt which contains the ad contents such as title, body, price etc. All images will be downloaded as well.

CONFIGURATION

You can create a config file to save typing. By default "~/.kleingebaeck" is being used but you can specify one with "-c" as well. We use TOML as our configuration language. See <https://toml.io/en/>.

Format is pretty simple:

    user = 1010101
    loglevel = verbose
    outdir = "test"
    useragent = "Mozilla/5.0"
    template = """
    Title: {{.Title}}
    Price: {{.Price}}
    Id: {{.ID}}
    Category: {{.Category}}
    Condition: {{.Condition}}
    Created: {{.Created}}
    {{.Text}}
    """

Be careful if you want to change the template. The variable is a multiline string surrounded by three double quotes. You can left out certain fields and use any formatting you like. Refer to <https://pkg.go.dev/text/template> for details how to write a template. Also read the TEMPLATES section below.

If you're on windows and want to customize the output directory, put it into single quotes to avoid the backslashes interpreted as escape chars like this:

    outdir = 'C:\Data\Ads'

TEMPLATES

Various parts of the configuration can be modified using templates: the output directory, the ad directory and the ad listing itself.

OUTPUT DIR TEMPLATE

The config varialbe "outdir" or the command line parameter "-o" take a template which may contain:

"{{.Year}}"
"{{.Month}}"
"{{.Day}}"

That way you can create a new output directory for every backup run. For example:

    outdir = "/home/backups/ads-{{.Year}}-{{.Month}}-{{.Day}}"

Or using the command line flag:

    -o "/home/backups/ads-{{.Year}}-{{.Month}}-{{.Day}}"

The default value is "." - the current directory.

AD DIRECTORY TEMPLATE

The ad directory name can be modified using the following ad values:

{{.Price}}
{{.ID}}
{{.Category}}
{{.Condition}}
{{.Created}}
{{.Slug}}
{{.Text}}

It can only be configured in the config file. By default only "{{.Slug}}" is being used, this is the title of the ad in url format.

AD NAME TEMPLATE

The name of the directory per ad can be tuned as well:

"{{.Year}}"
"{{.Month}}"
"{{.Day}}"
"{{.Slug}}"
"{{.Category}}"
"{{.ID}}"

AD TEMPLATE

The ad listing itself can be modified as well, using the same variables as the ad name template above.

This is the default template:

    Title: {{.Title}}
    Price: {{.Price}}
    Id: {{.ID}}
    Category: {{.Category}}
    Condition: {{.Condition}}
    Type: {{.Type}}
    Created: {{.Created}}
    Expire: {{.Expire}}
    
    {{.Text}}

The config parameter to modify is "template". See example.conf in the source repository. Please take care, since this is a multiline string. This is how it shall look if you modify it:

    template="""
    Title: {{.Title}}
    
    {{.Text}}
    """

That is, the content between the two """ chars is the template.

SETUP

To setup the tool, you need to lookup your userid on kleinanzeigen.de. Go to your ad overview page while NOT being logged in:

    https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-bestandsliste.html?userId=XXXXXX

The XXXXX part is your userid.

Put it into the configfile as outlined above. Also specify an output directory. Then just execute "kleingebaeck".

You can use the -v option to get verbose output or -d to enable debugging.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

The following environment variables are considered:

    KLEINGEBAECK_USER
    KLEINGEBAECK_DEBUG
    KLEINGEBAECK_VERBOSE
    KLEINGEBAECK_OUTDIR
    KLEINGEBAECK_LIMIT
    KLEINGEBAECK_CONFIG
    KLEINGEBAECK_IGNOREERRORS

Please note, that they take precedence over config file, but commandline flags take precedence over env!

BUGS

In order to report a bug, unexpected behavior, feature requests or to submit a patch, please open an issue on github: <https://github.com/TLINDEN/kleingebaeck/issues>.

Please repeat the failing command with debugging enabled "-d" and include the output in the issue.

LIMITATIONS

The "kleingebaeck" doesn't currently check if it has downloaded a file already, so it downloads everything again every time you execute it. Be aware of it. This will change in the future.

Also there's currently no parallelization implemented. This will change in the future.

LICENSE

Copyright 2023-2025 Thomas von Dein

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Author

T.v.Dein <tom AT vondein DOT org>

2025-02-27 1