Unable to purchase tickets to see a concert in Toronto for a performer's first time in Canada, I wanted to automate checking ticket resellers for the cheapest seats every day. I decided to write a script to check prices for me, then send me updates on Discord, using a scheduled Github Action.
2023-05-25: This bot scraper now parses event names from Seatgeek and Stubhub and names the bot directly after the event name. Hence, the bot name will be called <event_name> Ticket Notification Bot. This is to prevent confusion when running multiple bots for different events.
uv >= 0.4.27-
Clone/fork the repository
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Install dependencies
uv sync # If uv.lock exists
uv pip sync pyproject.toml # If uv.lock does not exist- Replace the values in
input/input.txtwith links to the events you want to track. Right now, the script only works forSeatGeekStubhub.
Why is this manual? Ticketmaster blocks
Seleniumandrequestsanyways, but I don't want to write a scraper for every ticket vendor. If you want to use this for a different vendor, you'll have to write your own scraper. Also, I don't want to build a bot to handle user input, and I don't want to automate buying tickets, since I want to check prices myself. Otherwise, I'd be no better than a ticket scalper, and this bot is not meant to scalp tickets. I just want tickets to see Twice.
Update 2024-10-28: For the past couple of months, Seatgeek has been blocking scraping requests, so only Stubhub continues to work. However, for how long remains to be seen. Viagogo seems to be a viable target in the near future.
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.env.exampleto.envand in your target Discord server, provided you have admin privileges, create a webhook and paste the URL into the.envfile. If you're running this as a Github Action, you'll need to add the webhook URL as a secret inSettings > Secrets and Variables.
WEBHOOK_URL={your-discord-server-webhook-url}I automated this using Github Actions since I don't need a script running 24/7, just once an hour. I was also moving at the time, so couldn't run it as a cron job on my Raspberry Pi. Finally, I didn't want to run a VM in Azure since it seemed wasteful to spin up a machine for a script that takes a minute to run. If you want to run this locally, you can use cron to schedule the script to run every hour.
