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// Note that this has some limitations, such as looking specifically for adult tickets, | |
// looking for the given days only in the nearest month that has availability, | |
// and always choosing the earliest time if several are found within the desired dates. | |
function setAdultTickets(adultTicketsWanted) { | |
const adultTicketsCount = parseInt($('.quantity-control.row > input')[0].value, 10); | |
const ticketChangeIterations = Math.abs(adultTicketsWanted - adultTicketsCount); | |
const ticketChangeButton = $(`.quantity-control.row > button.typcn-${adultTicketsCount < adultTicketsWanted ? 'plus' : 'minus'}`)[0]; | |
for (let i = 0; i < ticketChangeIterations; i++) { | |
ticketChangeButton.click(); | |
} | |
} | |
function playSound(src) { | |
return new Promise((resolve) => { | |
const audio = new Audio(src); | |
audio.onended = resolve; | |
audio.play(); | |
}); | |
} | |
function repeatHeyListen() { | |
playSound('https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/hey_listen.mp3') | |
.then(repeatHeyListen); | |
} | |
function waitForAvailability() { | |
return new Promise((resolve) => { | |
setTimeout(() => { | |
const availableEls = $('.calendar>.row:not(.blankLoader) .calendar-body .day.available'), isLoading = $('.calendar-modal[data-component=eventTimeModal] .modal-content > .loading-mask.hide').length === 0; | |
if (isLoading) { | |
return waitForAvailability() | |
.then((res) => resolve(res)); | |
} | |
resolve(availableEls); | |
}, 1000); | |
}); | |
} | |
function playSounds() { | |
playSound('https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/mlg-airhorn.mp3') | |
.then(() => playSound('https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/sound-9______.mp3')) | |
.then(() => playSound('https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/ps_1.mp3')) | |
.then(() => playSound('https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/wrong-answer-sound-effect.mp3')) | |
.then(() => playSound('https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/lalalalala.swf.mp3')) | |
.then(() => playSound('https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/tuturu_1.mp3')) | |
.then(() => playSound('https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/hallelujahshort.swf.mp3')) | |
.then(repeatHeyListen); | |
} | |
function addTicketsToBasket(dayElement) { | |
dayElement.click(); | |
setTimeout(() => waitForAvailability() | |
.then(() => { | |
$('.ui-control.button.select-time')[0].click(); | |
setTimeout(() => { | |
$('.typcn.typcn-shopping-cart.ng-binding')[0].click(); | |
}, 2000); | |
}), 2000); | |
} | |
function checkForTickets(datesWanted=[6, 7, 8], adultTicketsWanted=2, checkFrequency=15) { | |
setAdultTickets(adultTicketsWanted); | |
function check() { | |
$('.shared-calendar-button').click(); | |
waitForAvailability() | |
.then(availableEls => { | |
console.log(new Date(), 'Availability loaded. Checking for relevant dates...'); | |
for (let i = 0; i < availableEls.length; i++) { | |
const day = parseInt(availableEls[i].innerText, 10); | |
console.log('Day', day, 'is available...'); | |
if (datesWanted.includes(day)) { | |
console.log('Found tickets!!!!!'); | |
playSounds(); | |
addTicketsToBasket(availableEls[i]); | |
return; | |
} | |
} | |
console.log(`Relevant dates not yet available. Will check again in ${checkFrequency} seconds.`); | |
$('#page > div:nth-child(11) > div.modal.info-modal.w-auto-c > div > div.close').click(); | |
setTimeout(check, checkFrequency * 1000); | |
}); | |
}; | |
check(); | |
} |
@Rovack Thanks, that works! The alarm sounds will be hard to miss.
@kramnnim live saver right here, only took a few hours to get a reservation less than two weeks out! Thanks so much
@Rovack - sorry I'm a novice at this but my family (wife and 3 kids, who are Harry Potter lovers) desperately want to go to this. So, I'm trying my luck at running this script but nothing seems to come up - can you help me run this please?
I've changed it to the dates in October (22, 24, or 25) we want and tickets we need (4), my youngest is 4 so doesnt need a ticket - but I'm not having any luck :(
Any help will be much appreciated _/|_
Hey @mrrrr2, let's see if we can solve this!
So first, are the other 2 kids 5-15 years old? If so, it seems what you need is 1 family ticket, plus 1 (free) ticket for kids 4 and under.
Rather than adjust the script to work with 2 types of tickets, I'd suggest simply selecting the number of tickets manually when you open the page (before even doing anything with the script). You can replace line 67 with:
// setAdultTickets(adultTicketsWanted);
(that is, just adding //
at the start) to prevent the script from trying to automatically set the number of tickets for you.
Secondly, looking at the site right now, it seems there's little availability up to January. So, you probably want to tell the script you specifically want October tickets, to prevent it from getting tickets in Nov, Dec, or Jan in case they open up first.
To do so, you can follow the advice I gave DariusCS a while back, and add the following between lines 74 and 75:
const month = parseInt($('[name="ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder$SalesChannelDetailControl$EventsDateTimeSelectorModal$EventsDateTimeSelector$CalendarSelector$MonthDropDownList"]')[0].value, 10);
if (month !== 10) {
console.log(`Wrong month. Will check again in ${checkFrequency} seconds.`);
$('#page > div:nth-child(11) > div.modal.info-modal.w-auto-c > div > div.close').click();
setTimeout(check, checkFrequency * 1000);
return;
}
Once you make these 2 tweaks, just running checkForTickets([22, 24, 25])
should do the trick.
Before you even make these changes, though, what are you seeing when you just try to run the script as-is?
When I try, I see the availability calendar loading for a few seconds, and then I immediately start hearing the notification sounds and see the script go to the checkout page, as it finds tickets for the 22nd of January (this is before making the modifications I mentioned above to make it focus on October).
Does something different happen to you? When you paste the code, hit Enter, and then type checkForTickets([22, 24, 25])
, and hit Enter again, do you not see the availability dialog open up?
If not, please mention which browser and operating system you're using, and we'll try to figure out what's different.
(One point worth noting is that it seems the site's just generally running really slow at the moment. The spinning indicator that shows up when looking for tickets takes many seconds until you actually see the availability. Still, this shouldn't affect the script.)
Edit: As @weqo points out in their comment from Nov 1, the structure of month values has changed, so this fix no longer works as-is.
The corrected version, as proposed by @weqo, is:
const monthValue = $('[name="ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder$SalesChannelDetailControl$EventsDateTimeSelectorModal$EventsDateTimeSelector$CalendarSelector$MonthDropDownList"]')[0].value;
const month = monthValue.replace(/^\D+/g, '');
if (month !== '10') {
console.log(`Wrong month. Will check again in ${checkFrequency} seconds.`);
$('#page > div:nth-child(11) > div.modal.info-modal.w-auto-c > div > div.close').click();
setTimeout(check, checkFrequency * 1000);
return;
}
If it helps, here's a video showing what happens when I try running the script, without the modifications to make it focus on October and skip selecting the ticket types:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13yiaKoFMk6WNLWBVDeP7pweD9EBrsWs-/view?usp=sharing
As you can see, the script immediately finds tickets (in January).
And here's one where I do make the modifications:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x8EZocOHCeugiCREhArmmoUPl7SFeV7V/view
Of course, in this one it doesn't immediately find tickets, but will keep trying from that point on.
If anything happens differently for you, just let me know at what stage and what exactly happens, so we can see what's going on.
@Rovack - I am speechless and in gratitude. No, we haven't got the tickets, but you've gone out of your way to not only help me, but hold my arm through the entire process, and even created videos to help me. Right now, the script is running, but nothing is coming up for the month you've helped us specify (October), so its running again every 15 seconds. I dont know how to thank you for getting us here, and I've seen you refuse money earlier (for beer), so I'm going to share this experience with my wife (wb studios the only thing she really, really wants to do in our visit to England) and kids, and hopefully they in turn will be uplifted and moved to help others, selflessly, as you have for us. I hope that wherever you are, if you take a deep breath, you'll feel the contentness and satisfaction of being in that light that you have helped create
Wow @mrrrr2, thank you so much for your kind words!! I can't tell you how wonderful that is to hear.
Mostly, I really really hope you do manage to get the tickets, and that you all get to go on the WB studios tour.
I'm honestly a bit shocked to see it's booked for 3 whole months in advance, but I guess that's the holidays for you... Still, there's a week left until those dates, and I've found it's often in the last week that some tickets go back on sale.
Hopefully if you leave the script running long enough, it'll find an opportune moment (as it originally did for me). :)
Let me know if you run into any other issues, or if there's anything else I can do to help, and either way - have an awesome vacation!
@Rovack - We got tickets!! What an amazing turn of fortune. An interesting thing happened - it was running and checking through and stopped going all the way to January, and stopped at Oct 21 (not a date that we had specified), but the time that it found would be workable, so we just basket'd them and checked out! Its on, we're on our way. I can't believe how helpful you have been in doing this, and the care that you had that we'll get to enjoy this family activity. Can't thank you enough - but I have a feeling good things have been coming to you and will continue to do so it's true that our prayers are heard (it is, we got tickets!!). Thank you sincerely _/|_
Any recommendations on where to start to learn this kind of coding -- i've been in finance my whole life but find this refreshing and extremely helpful - would love to learn more :)
So happy to hear the great news! Awesome to hear it all worked out. :)
The bit about the script picking the wrong day is a bit concerning. Wonder what could make it ignore the specified days...
I'll need to look into it.
As for how to learn, personally I think the best way to learn practical coding is just playing around with code and tweaking stuff. For instance, reading over scripts like this, trying to understand how they work, looking up any syntax or concepts you don't know, and modifying things as you see fit. If you have an idea for something you want to achieve programmatically, figuring out how to code it is the easy part.
Of course, at first you'll run into a ton of things you don't understand or have no idea how to do, but all answers can be found online (StackOverflow is a coder's most powerful tool), and you should never hesitate to just copy-paste wildly from answers and solutions you find online. After enough trial and error, you can make just about anything work, and over time it'll become increasingly fast and easy.
It does help to have some fundamental understanding of the language or frameworks you use, but that's super easy too nowadays; Googling e.g. "learn JavaScript" should turn up virtually infinite free and high-quality resources, and you can achieve quite a lot with very basic tools.
This script, as a very simple example, requires nothing more advanced than JavaScript, the jQuery library, and some understanding of HTML.
Of course, if you have the time to commit to it, the many coding Bootcamps that have been popping up in recent years can help a lot too, but hardly a requirement when starting out.
Anyway, I wish you and your family a magical time in the WB studios, and in your vacation in general!
@Rovack, I think the script found the nearest available date (21st) and saw that after looking forward for my date that none was available, so it kept looping and trying again. In my regular checks to see, I noticed that the date went from somewhere in January to October 21st so I clicked on the date to check times and saw that the time worked.
Thanks for the info, I look forward to learning JS and becoming a more active participant this digital age (as opposed to passive).
Still cant thank you enough though, but I dont want to belabor the point - you're basically an angel sent to help, and you touched us. Peace dear friend, always here if you need us
I'm currently looking to check December and there are available tickets in November. I added your edits from the Sept 7th post but noticed that it seems to be skipping the check. While troubleshooting, I noticed that parseInt($('[name="ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder$SalesChannelDetailControl$EventsDateTimeSelectorModal$EventsDateTimeSelector$CalendarSelector$MonthDropDownList"]')[0].value, 10)
returns NaN.
I do notice, however, that when I enter $('[name="ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder$SalesChannelDetailControl$EventsDateTimeSelectorModal$EventsDateTimeSelector$CalendarSelector$MonthDropDownList"]')[0].value
it does return string:11
for November.
After some google-fu I've modified the section (basically, perform a regex replace on the CTl100 month value so that it returns a string, and then match that string) so that month would match for November:
waitForAvailability()
.then(initialEls => {
const monthvalue = $('[name="ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder$SalesChannelDetailControl$EventsDateTimeSelectorModal$EventsDateTimeSelector$CalendarSelector$MonthDropDownList"]')[0].value;
const month = monthvalue.replace(/^\D+/g, "");
if (month === '11') {
console.log('Month too early - skipping to next month');
$('[name="ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder$SalesChannelDetailControl$EventsDateTimeSelectorModal$EventsDateTimeSelector$CalendarSelector$NextMonthImageButton"]').click();
return waitForAvailability();
} else {
return Promise.resolve(initialEls);
}
However, the script just seems to stop after logging "Month too early - skipping to next month" and doesn't continue on with the check. Any suggestions?
Ah, you're absolutely right. Looks like they changed the value structure from just the month number to "string:" followed by the number.
Your solution should definitely work. For simplicity, an alternative solution would be avoiding integer parsing and and regexes altogether, and just getting the name of the selected month, which is what's actually displayed (and therefore somewhat less likely to change in the future):
const month = $('[name="ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder$SalesChannelDetailControl$EventsDateTimeSelectorModal$EventsDateTimeSelector$CalendarSelector$MonthDropDownList"] > [selected="selected"]')[0].innerText;
if (month === 'November') {
Anyway, both this and your regex should be valid solutions, and neither is the cause for the script hanging, as you described and I also just verified.
The actual culprit for that one is a rare case that I hadn't handled: a month without a single day of availability (as is currently the case for December). Due to the way the script checks if the calendar has finished loading, failing to find a single day that's available will make it just keep waiting indefinitely.
Fortunately, there's a very simple solution for this, that requires nothing but removing code! Simply change the check in line 32 from:
if (availableEls.length === 0 || isLoading) {
to just:
if (isLoading) {
Honestly I'm not even sure why the availableEls.length
check existed in the first place. I think it might just be historical reasons (isLoading
was only added in a later version of the script IIRC).
I'll update this in the main snippet too, so in the future this edge case won't bother anyone else.
Thanks for pointing out these issues, and for taking the initiative to debug them on your own and share your solutions, @weqo!
Hope with this additional fix, the script works for you and you get the tickets you've been looking for. If you run into any other issues, of course do let me know. :)
P.S.: I've updated the original month-skipping comment to include your corrected version. Thanks again!
Hey, thanks so much for this. Can I just confirm that if I'm looking across months, I can just add the dates in the array consecutively? For example, if I'm looking for 27-31 December + 1 January, would the function be checkForTickets([27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 1], 2, 300)
?
@ReignOfComputer Sort of. If you enter those values, the script will search until it finds tickets on one of those days, in whichever month has the nearest available tickets.
So, as long as December has any tickets left, it'll keep waiting until one of the given days opens up in December. Even if January 1st actually does become available, the script won't detect this.
Conversely, if tickets for December run out entirely, such that the nearest availability is in January, the script might pick up tickets for e.g. January 27th.
In general, to specify which month you want, you could use one of the modifications mentioned in the comments above.
Specifically, you could make the change suggested on Sep 7 if you wanted to skip ahead of December to see if January 1st is available.
Or, the change suggested on Aug 14 if you only want to accept results in December so as to exclude results like January 27th.
However, actually making the script work with both months, associating different days for each, would not be quite so easy.
Fortunately, there is a simple solution you could try, that doesn't require any new code: Just open the site in 2 different tabs at the same time, and run the December search in one and January in the other.
The December tab would have the script version with the Aug 14 change, and you'd pass [27, 28, 29, 30, 31]
to checkForTickets
there, whereas the January tab would have the version with the Sep 7 change, and for that one you'd just pass [1]
.
This workaround is a bit cumbersome to be sure, but should work.
Let me know if any part of this is unclear, or if there's any other questions or issues.
Good luck!
You're amazing, thanks again!
Hy!
Please help me!
We are a family (2+2) and still an adult and a child.
We want to get to the WB studios between 13 -16 February.
I tried as you wrote on Oct 15 but I get the message
"Availability loaded. Checking for relevant dates ..."
VM239: 77 Wrong month. Will check again in 15 seconds.
What should I do?
Thanks!!!!
Hi @mihaela2020. That could be because a couple months ago the site made a certain change, that required a slight tweak to the Oct 15 code for finding tickets in a specific month. I've now added an Edit at the bottom of the Oct 15 comment, with what should be a fixed version of the code.
Once you use the updated fix (and assuming you put the number '2' in the check instead of '10', since you want February), that message should only appear when there really isn't any availability earlier than March.
Of course, in that case, if the message does appear and you see that the month being shown in the pop-up is indeed later than February, that's perfectly fine: as the message says, it'll just try again in 15 seconds, and will keep trying until it finds availability on the given dates in February.
The only remaining issue would be the case where January still has availability, in which case February won't even be checked.
I'm planning on adding a new version of the script that will handle that case as well, but right now the site is so incredibly slow for me that I can't really test any changes. Hopefully I'll be able to get it working shortly.
Anyway, let me know if this works, or if there's any more questions/issues/clarifications/anything I can help with. And good luck!
Well, the site is still very slow for me, so I can't fully test the new version, but I have tried it once or twice and it seemed to work well enough.
So, perhaps you'd like to give it a shot, even though it's still experimental at this point and could definitely have issues.
If so, just copy the code below (instead of the original script at the top of this page), and then run:
checkForTicketsInMonth([13, 14, 15, 16], 2)
.
(Of course, don't forget to also add the //
mentioned in Oct 15th and manually select the ticket amounts before running the script, since you want both adult and child tickets.)
The code is as follows:
function setAdultTickets(adultTicketsWanted) {
const adultTicketsCount = parseInt($('.quantity-control.row > input')[0].value, 10);
const ticketChangeIterations = Math.abs(adultTicketsWanted - adultTicketsCount);
const ticketChangeButton = $(`.quantity-control.row > button.typcn-${adultTicketsCount < adultTicketsWanted ? 'plus' : 'minus'}`)[0];
for (let i = 0; i < ticketChangeIterations; i++) {
ticketChangeButton.click();
}
}
function playSound(src) {
return new Promise((resolve) => {
const audio = new Audio(src);
audio.onended = resolve;
audio.play();
});
}
function repeatHeyListen() {
playSound('https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/hey_listen.mp3')
.then(repeatHeyListen);
}
function waitForAvailability(monthWanted) {
return new Promise((resolve) => {
setTimeout(() => {
const availableEls = $('.calendar>.row:not(.blankLoader) .calendar-body .day.available'), isLoading = $('.calendar-modal[data-component=eventTimeModal] .modal-content > .loading-mask.hide').length === 0;
if (isLoading) {
return waitForAvailability(monthWanted)
.then((res) => resolve(res));
}
if (monthWanted == null) {
resolve({ availableEls });
return;
}
const monthValue = $('[name="ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder$SalesChannelDetailControl$EventsDateTimeSelectorModal$EventsDateTimeSelector$CalendarSelector$MonthDropDownList"]')[0].value;
const month = parseInt(monthValue.replace(/^\D+/g, ''), 10);
if (month < monthWanted) {
console.log(`Month too early (${month}) - skipping to next month.`);
$('[name="ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder$SalesChannelDetailControl$EventsDateTimeSelectorModal$EventsDateTimeSelector$CalendarSelector$NextMonthImageButton"]').click();
return waitForAvailability(monthWanted).then(res => resolve(res));
}
resolve({ availableEls, month });
}, 1000);
});
}
function playSounds() {
playSound('https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/mlg-airhorn.mp3')
.then(() => playSound('https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/sound-9______.mp3'))
.then(() => playSound('https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/ps_1.mp3'))
.then(() => playSound('https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/wrong-answer-sound-effect.mp3'))
.then(() => playSound('https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/lalalalala.swf.mp3'))
.then(() => playSound('https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/tuturu_1.mp3'))
.then(() => playSound('https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/hallelujahshort.swf.mp3'))
.then(repeatHeyListen);
}
function addTicketsToBasket(dayElement) {
dayElement.click();
setTimeout(() => waitForAvailability()
.then(() => {
$('.ui-control.button.select-time')[0].click();
setTimeout(() => {
$('.typcn.typcn-shopping-cart.ng-binding')[0].click();
}, 2000);
}), 2000);
}
function checkForTickets(datesWanted=[6, 7, 8], adultTicketsWanted=2, checkFrequency=15, monthWanted) {
setAdultTickets(adultTicketsWanted);
function check() {
$('.shared-calendar-button').click();
waitForAvailability(monthWanted)
.then(({ availableEls, month }) => {
console.log(new Date(), `Availability loaded${month != null ? ` for month ${month}` : ''}. Checking for relevant dates...`);
if (monthWanted != null && month > monthWanted) {
console.log(`Month is too late (${month}). Will check again in ${checkFrequency} seconds.`);
setTimeout(check, checkFrequency * 1000);
return;
}
for (let i = 0; i < availableEls.length; i++) {
const day = parseInt(availableEls[i].innerText, 10);
console.log('Day', day, 'is available...');
if (datesWanted.includes(day)) {
console.log('Found tickets!!!!!');
playSounds();
addTicketsToBasket(availableEls[i]);
return;
}
}
console.log(`Relevant dates not yet available. Will check again in ${checkFrequency} seconds.`);
$('#page > div:nth-child(11) > div.modal.info-modal.w-auto-c > div > div.close').click();
setTimeout(check, checkFrequency * 1000);
});
};
check();
}
function checkForTicketsInMonth(datesWanted, monthWanted, adultTicketsWanted, checkFrequency) {
return checkForTickets(datesWanted, adultTicketsWanted, checkFrequency, monthWanted);
}
Ah, just saw your reply @mihaela2020. To answer your question: Yes, using a month that you know does have availability is the best way to test, just as you said.
Using the new version of the script, that would mean running e.g.: checkForTicketsInMonth([13, 14, 15, 16], 3)
, instead of checkForTicketsInMonth([13, 14, 15, 16], 2)
, just to test.
Also, note that I've updated my earlier comment a bit, and also added a new one with a version of the script that should handle more cases, even though it isn't as well-tested as the original version (just forgot to tag you on that one).
Finally, looking at the site right now, it seems Feb 14-16 all have availability, so you might be able to just manually book the tickets you want. That is, if you go in right now, the script might not even be necessary. :)
(Edit: I find it interesting that the site was extremely slow for me for the last hour or so, then 5-10 minutes ago a ton of availability opened up in January and February, then it seems that availability disappeared in just a couple of minutes, and now the site is more or less back to its normal speed. I wonder if some process involving availability was going on that was slowing down the site... if so, that would suggest it's worth keeping an eye on the site around 8-9 AM GMT, which does match advice I've seen mentioned on TripAdvisor before.)
Great, glad to hear the script works @mihaela2020. :)
Just note that if tickets open up for January and February at the same time, as was the case this morning, the original version probably won't work (it only knows how to keep waiting when availability is too late, but doesn't handle availability that's too early, meaning it could keep looking at Jan instead of Feb).
For that, the new version is preferable, since it also knows to go to the next month (if you want, you could test that by looking for tickets in April, e.g. checkForTicketsInMonth([13, 14, 15, 16], 4)
).
I have a problem with the new version:
Although I'm interested in February and at the end I run checkForTicketsInMonth ([13, 14, 15, 16], 2)
it puts in my basket tickets for March.
It doesn't wait for February availability.
You're absolutely right, @mihaela2020. I just updated the code in the comment with a fix.
And, now that the site is back to full speed, I was able to test all cases: a month that's too late, too early, and just right.
All seem to work now, as far as I can tell.
Hello again!
Your method works very well. Thanks!
I have family tickets in my basket but I don't know for what date or time.
Do you know how I can find out?
Oh wow, that's a very good question @mihaela2020. Personally I've never tried getting Family tickets, so I never even realized they don't show the dates in the basket. For Adult or Child tickets, it shows up in the basket as e.g. "Adult- 03/03/2020 10:00" or "Child- 03/03/2020 15:00".
Really weird choice for the website design...
It's likely that if the script was given the right parameters, and automatically put tickets into the basket, the tickets will be somewhere in the specified range. Even with the new version, that's not as well-tested, I'd say I have 80% confidence in that.
So, one strategy would be to just buy the tickets, and if it then turns out that they were somehow wrong, cancel them. According to their Terms and Conditions, you should be able to cancel by phone within 7 days of purchasing, if you're a resident of the EU.
If you're not, I have no idea how amenable they are to refunding tickets.
If that's not an option, it might be possible to make some modifications to the script to make it store somewhere which dates it selected, though off the top of my head I'm not sure what would be the best way to do that. The problem is that when the page changes as part of going to the basket, the log of messages is unfortunately cleared. So, it'd require some actual storage option...
Actually, one very simple solution would be just removing the part that automatically adds the tickets to the basket. If you're relatively near the computer for enough of the time, you could rely on the loud sounds to alert you once tickets become available, and then come put them in the basket yourself.
For that, I believe all you'd need to do is change the line that's currently:
addTicketsToBasket(availableEls[i]);
into:
// addTicketsToBasket(availableEls[i]);
Anyway, any option that requires modifications to the script would of course require disposing of the tickets you currently have, and running the script again. Not the end of the world, since there's still enough time ahead of your visit that it would likely find new tickets in a day or 2, but still somewhat of a risk.
I searched in the "View Page Source" of the basket for 2020 and found the date and time 14/02/2020 11:00.
👍
Ah, of course! Excellent idea. :)
For future reference, in case anyone else encounters this issue, you should be able to see the date and time by typing the following in the Console:
$('[ng-if="packageItem.packageEventDate"] > .selected-date')[0].innerHTML
So glad to hear you got tickets @mihaela2020. Have a great time!
P.S. I've now also updated the Caveats in the top comment to reflect this problem and your solution, so others may benefit from your experience. :)
So happy to hear that, @Capybara218!
Thanks for letting me know, and I hope you and your SO have an amazing time there! :)
Hi @kramnnim. You're correct that since you want to skip a month, rather than simply waiting for an earlier month to become available, that additional check won't be sufficient.
What you could instead do is add the following between lines 72 and 73 (that is, before
.then(availableEls => {
):Just make sure to first re-copy the script, as I also made a small change to the "waitForAvailability" function which is needed for this to work.
(The check on the 3rd line,
if (month === 9)
, is what will make it skip to the next month if the one that opens initially is September. This mechanism of course won't work for skipping 2 or more months, but finding tickets more than 1 month in advance shouldn't be very hard anyway.)Edit: As @weqo points out in their comment from Nov 1, the structure of month values has changed, so this fix no longer works as-is.
The corrected version, as proposed by @weqo, is: