This is a Python script that scrapes the website of LakeRiders Geneva to search for available spots for a wakeboard session. It alerts the user of available sessions through a Telegram bot
- The script scrapes the calendar of upcoming sessions in the website every 2 minutes.
- It compares the reserved sessions with the ones from the previous session, which are stored in a LiteSQL DB.
- In case a session has become available (because of cancellation by a member), the script sends a message to a Telegram private group through a Telegram bot.
To run the script, a series of "secrets" are needed. Namely you need:
- An account at LakeRiders Geneva, characterized by an email and a password
- A Telegram bot, characterized by a bot token.
- A chat with the Telegram bot, characterized by a chat id. One way of obtaining the chat id is by running
curl https://api.telegram.org/bot<YOUR_BOT_TOKEN>/getUpdates
The chat id is available in the response.
LakeRiders Alert is published as a PyPI package at https://pypi.org/project/lakeriders-alert/
pip install lakeriders-alert
lakeridersalert
From the root directory:
pip install -e .
lakeridersalert
The first step installs the required dependencies and creates the lakeridersalert comman that launches the script.
Unless you have defined your secrets as environment variables, when launching LakeRiders Alert you will be prompted to enter the secrets mentioned in the prerequisites section above.
If you want to use the env variables approach, define the secrets as
export LOGIN_EMAIL=<YOUR_LOGIN_EMAIL>
export LOGIN_PASSWORD=<YOUR_LOGIN_PASSWORD>
export BOT_TOKEN=<YOUR_BOT_TOKEN>
export CHAT_ID=<YOUR_CHAT_ID>
Also, if you want LakeRidersAlert to print log messages in the console, set the environment variable RUN_WITH_LOGS to a truthy value before starting the script.
From the root directory:
python -m unittest discover