Ticket Price Alert Bot 🎟

Automated Stubhub ticket price checking with python & selenium

Description

This project was created to programatically check ticket prices on stubhub for the Big East championship game. It uses selenium webdriver to navigate to the ticketing page and locate and read xml elements. If the ticket price is below a specified threshold, an automated email is then sent to notify the user. You can adapt this ticket bot for your own use by modifying the ticket url, element xpaths, email content, and price threshold.

What's in here

• ticket_bot.py ➡️ this file is home to the main bot functionality - the webdriver navigation, the price checking, and the final email notification process
• send_email.py ➡️ generic function for sending an email with stmplib
• send_sms.py ➡️ generic function for sending an sms message with twilio

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Getting Started

Dependencies

• See requirements.txt for dependencies

How to use

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/kgarrity22/ticket-price-alert

2. Install dependencies

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. In ticket_bot.py replace the constant values with your own desired ticket info (STUBHUB_URL, TICKET_X_PATHS, EMAIL_SUB, PRICE_THRESHOLD)
4. Create your own keys.py file with the following (if you wish to send & receive email notifications):

• SENDER_EMAIL
• SENDER_PASSWORD
• RECEIVER_EMAIL

• for SENDER_PASSWORD with gmail, you'll need to create an app password If you have an active Twilio account you can also define the following in order to receive notifications via text:

• TWILIO_ACCOUNT_ID
• TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN
• TWILIO_NUMBER
• CELL_NUMBER

Running the check on a schedule

If you want to schedule the program to run, you can set up a cron job on your machine ex. Check the ticket price each day at 8:

0 8 * * * python3 /path/to/ticket_bot.py

Executing program

• Running locally:

python {your path to file}/ticket_bot.py

Acknowledgments

Thanks to the following sources for guidance/inspo:

• https://medium.com/@benlahner/how-to-build-your-own-ticket-bot-63c3d0706e92
• https://mailtrap.io/blog/python-send-email-gmail/