willhaben-mcp

Search Austria's largest classifieds marketplace from any MCP client.

Browse real estate, cars, jobs, and second-hand listings on willhaben.at through Claude and other Model Context Protocol clients — with natural-language search, structured filters, and full listing details.

Contents

• What you can do

• Coverage

• Requirements

• Quickstart

• Available tools

• Sample output

• Example prompts

• Bundled command & skill

• Location filtering

• How it works

• Limitations & notes

• Development

• Acknowledgements

• Legal & responsible use

• License

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What you can do

• 🔍 Universal search across all four verticals from a single tool

• 🏠 Real estate — apartments & houses for sale/rent, filtered by price, rooms, area, location

• 🚗 Cars — used & new vehicles by make, model, price, year, mileage, fuel, transmission

• 💼 Jobs — listings by keyword and job type

• 🛍️ Marketplace — second-hand items by keyword, category, condition, price, location

• 📋 Listing details — full attributes, images, seller info, address, contact options

• 📍 Smart location — Austrian states resolved offline, plus live city / place / postal-code lookup

• ⚡ Zero configuration — no API keys, no tokens, no accounts

• 🛡️ Polite by design — one-request-at-a-time rate limiting and response caching built in

Coverage

*Approximate, fetched live from willhaben at the time of writing; the real numbers move daily.

Requirements

• Node.js ≥ 18 (uses the built-in global fetch)

• Any MCP-compatible client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, etc.)

Quickstart

Run directly with npx (nothing to install):

npx willhaben-mcp

…or install globally:

npm install -g willhaben-mcp
willhaben-mcp

Register it with your MCP client

Add to your MCP config (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "willhaben": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "willhaben-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Or, if you've cloned the repo and built it locally (npm run build), point the client at the bundled dist/index.js. Replace <project-root> with the absolute path to your clone:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "willhaben": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["<project-root>/dist/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

Then restart the client and ask something like "find 3-room apartments for sale in Graz under €400,000." The server speaks MCP over stdio — no ports, keys, or accounts.

Available tools

Common to every search tool: rows (default 30, capped at 100) and page (default 1).

willhaben_search

• vertical (required) — marketplace · real_estate · cars · jobs

• keyword, category, location, price_from, price_to, sort

willhaben_search_real_estate

• property_type — eigentumswohnung · haus · mietwohnung · grundstueck · …

• action — buy · rent

• location, price_from, price_to, rooms, area_from, area_to, sort

willhaben_search_cars

• make, model (matched as keywords; a numeric willhaben make/model ID is used directly)

• location, price_from, price_to, year_from, year_to, mileage_from, mileage_to

• fuel_type — petrol · diesel · electric · hybrid_petrol · hybrid_diesel

• transmission — manual · automatic

• condition — used · new · year_old

• sort

willhaben_search_jobs

• keyword (include a place name here for location, e.g. "Software Wien")

• job_type — Vollzeit · Teilzeit · …

• sort

willhaben_search_marketplace

• keyword, category, condition (neu/gebraucht/defekt), location, price_from, price_to, sort

willhaben_get_listing

• id (required) — the listing/ad ID, e.g. 1370327604

willhaben_get_categories

• vertical (required) — marketplace · real_estate · cars · jobs

Sort values

Sample output

A real-estate search returns a compact, scannable summary (truncated):

## Search Results: Eigentumswohnung
Found 333 listings (showing 3 of 3 per page, page 1)
Vertical: real_estate

1. Exklusives Wohnen in Graz-Eggenberg – moderne 2-Zimmer-Wohnung mit Loggia
   💰 € 185.000 | 📍 Graz, Eggenberg | 📐 63 m² | 🛏️ 2 rooms | 📊 € 2.936,51 /m²
   👤 Private | 🔗 https://www.willhaben.at/iad/immobilien/d/eigentumswohnung/...

2. …

willhaben_get_listing expands one ad into description highlights, full attribute list, image count, seller (private/dealer), address, and contact option.

Example prompts

Find 3-room apartments for sale in Graz under €400,000
Search used BMW under €15,000, automatic, registered after 2018
Show new iPhones on the marketplace in Vienna under €700
Get the full details for willhaben listing 1370327604

Bundled command & skill

The repo ships two optional Claude Code extras in .claude/ that build on the MCP tools:

• /willhaben-search command — turns a one-line query ("2-room flat in Graz under 300k", "used BMW diesel automatic under 15k") into the right tool call and returns a clean comparison table with value metrics (€/m², €/km), locations, and links.

  

• apartment-hunt skill — a multi-step real-estate workflow: search → score by value → dedupe → pull details on the top matches → ranked shortlist with rationale. Trigger it by asking to find/compare apartments or houses (e.g. "help me find a 2-bedroom flat in Vienna under €350k").

  

They're auto-discovered when you work inside this project. To use them globally, copy them into your user config:

cp .claude/commands/willhaben-search.md ~/.claude/commands/
cp -r .claude/skills/apartment-hunt ~/.claude/skills/

Both assume the MCP server is registered under the name willhaben (as in the config above). If you name it differently, update the allowed-tools prefix in the command.

Location filtering

Real-estate, car, and marketplace searches accept a location parameter resolved to a willhaben area in three tiers:

Location filtering is not available for jobs (the jobs API does not support it). Put the place name in the job keyword instead (e.g. "Software Wien").

How it works

The server fetches public willhaben.at pages and reads the structured JSON that the site embeds in its __NEXT_DATA__ script tag — the same data the willhaben web app renders from. Jobs use the public publicapi.willhaben.at endpoint, and location names are resolved through willhaben's public area-autocomplete endpoint. No API keys, tokens, or reverse-engineered credentials are involved.

┌───────────────┐     ┌──────────────────┐     ┌────────────────────────┐
│   MCP client  │ ──▶ │   willhaben-mcp  │ ──▶ │  willhaben.at (public  │
│ (Claude, …)   │     │   (Node.js)      │     │  pages + public APIs)  │
└───────────────┘     └──────────────────┘     └────────────────────────┘
                            │  • __NEXT_DATA__ extraction (cheerio)
                            │  • publicapi.willhaben.at (jobs)
                            │  • /webapi/autocomplete/area (location)
                            │  • rate limit: 1 request/sec · 5-min response cache

Limitations & notes

• Project / Bauträger ads (new developments) can appear in real-estate results even above your price_to, because willhaben surfaces them as teasers; the result count still reflects the filter, and per-unit ads respect it.

• Car make/model are matched as free-text keywords unless you pass a numeric willhaben make/model ID. Brand names work well as keywords; exact model-ID filtering needs the ID.

• Jobs don't support location filtering (the public jobs API ignores it) — fold the place into the keyword.

• Dynamic location lookup (cities/postal codes) makes one extra network call to willhaben's area-autocomplete; Austrian state names resolve offline with no extra request.

• Results are capped at 100 per page. This is a deliberate, polite default — don't work around it to bulk-harvest.

• willhaben's page structure can change at any time; if extraction breaks, the tool returns a clear error rather than guessing.

Development

npm install          # install dependencies
npm run build        # bundle to dist/ (tsup)
npm run dev          # run from source (tsx)

npx tsx test/integration.test.ts   # smoke test across verticals
npx tsx test/filters.test.ts       # verify every filter end-to-end

src/
├── index.ts            # MCP server + tool definitions
├── api/
│   ├── scraper.ts      # __NEXT_DATA__ extraction, rate limit, cache
│   ├── search.ts       # search across real estate / cars / marketplace
│   ├── jobs.ts         # jobs via publicapi.willhaben.at
│   ├── detail.ts       # single-listing detail
│   ├── geo.ts          # location → areaId resolution (static + live)
│   └── types.ts        # willhaben response & tool I/O types
└── utils/
    ├── constants.ts    # verticals, URL patterns, sort codes, area IDs
    └── formatters.ts   # human-readable result formatting

Acknowledgements

A heartfelt thank-you to willhaben — Austria's #1 marketplace and one of the country's most-loved digital products. Every day, millions of people across Austria rely on willhaben to buy and sell, find a home, land a job, and give things a second life. This project exists only because willhaben built something genuinely useful, trusted, and woven into everyday Austrian life. 🇦🇹

All listings, data, content, and trademarks belong to willhaben and its users; this tool simply offers an individual a convenient way to browse the public site. We have deep respect for willhaben's work — and for their right to decide how their platform is accessed. If willhaben would prefer this project change or stop, please reach out (see DISCLAIMER.md) and we'll gladly cooperate.

Legal & Responsible Use

Please read the full DISCLAIMER.md. In short:

• Not affiliated with willhaben. "willhaben" and related marks belong to their owners (willhaben internet service GmbH & Co KG) and are used only for identification.

• willhaben prohibits automated access. Their robots.txt ("It is expressively forbidden to use spiders, search robots or other automatic methods to access willhaben.at") and their Terms of Use forbid crawler/robot copying of content and commercial reuse without prior consent. This tool performs automated access; a disclaimer does not make that access authorized.

• You are responsible. By using this software you accept sole responsibility for complying with willhaben's Terms of Use and robots.txt, and with applicable law — which may include Austrian/EU unfair-competition (UWG), copyright and database rights, and GDPR (listings can contain personal data).

• Personal & non-commercial only. Do not use it for commercial exploitation, bulk harvesting, redistributing willhaben data, or contacting advertisers at scale. For anything beyond personal use, seek written permission / an official feed from willhaben.

• No warranty, no liability. Provided "AS IS" — see LICENSE.

• Be polite. The built-in rate limit and cache exist to minimize load; don't remove or aggressively raise them.

This project is not legal advice. If in doubt, consult a qualified lawyer and/or contact willhaben.

License

MIT © Ali Ildan. The MIT license covers this software only; it grants no rights to willhaben's content, data, trademarks, or services.