ticket-availability-notifier's Introduction

Movie Ticket Availability Notifier

There have been times when I wanted to, but could not watch a movie on its first weekend because I was late in booking the tickets. This crontask script will notify you, when tickets to the target movie are available, so you never miss a first-day-first-show again.

This is a Crontask for notification on availability of tickets for a new movie.

BookMyShow is used for scraping availability, so check if your city has bookings through BMS before using.

Pre-requisites:

Cron Jobs
Python Libraries:-
- bs4
- requests
- smtp
- time
- argparse (included by default)

How to Use:

Fill up the below section in main.py before setting up the crontask. This can be found at line 12 onwards.

# FILL THIS UP OTHERWISE THE SCRIPT WON'T RUN
#################################################
# Login details of any gmail account
bot_mail = ''
password = ''
#################################################

Add the file path, date and time for running and excution command in crontab -e.

# For checking ticket availability every 15 minutes.

*/15 * * * * python3 $PATH_TO_SCRIPT/main.py -m [] -l [] [email protected]

ADD THE COMMAND LINE ARGUMENTS BEFORE ADDING CRONJOB. Help is given below.

$ python3 movie.py -h
usage: main.py [-h] [-m [M]] [-l [L]] email

positional arguments:
  email       Email address to notify if tickets are available

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -m [M]      Name of movie to track
  -l [L]      Location where movie is tracked