Movie (and city/format) specific callback bot for BookMyShow. Update movie/format links in code and run. Ideal usage: add bot to channel, bot will send update messages whenever a cinema is added to the list

bookmyshow_stalking.py

from telegram.ext import Updater, CommandHandler
import requests
import time
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

import logging
logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s', level=logging.INFO)

cities = ["national-capital-region-ncr", "hyderabad", "bengaluru"]
BOOKING_URL = "https://in.bookmyshow.com/CITY/movies/avengers-endgame/ET00090482"
SPECIFIC_URLS = { "3D English": "https://in.bookmyshow.com/buytickets/avengers-endgame-hyderabad/movie-hyd-ET00100559-MT/20190428",
		"2D English": "https://in.bookmyshow.com/buytickets/avengers-endgame-hyderabad/movie-hyd-ET00090482-MT/20190428"}
TOKEN = "<INSERT_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN_HERE>"
ALREADY_TOLD = 0
CITYWISE_CINEMAS = {}

def check_if_booking_started():
	headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36'}
	available_in = []
	for city in cities:
		url = BOOKING_URL.replace("CITY", city)
		r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
		if "book tickets" in str(r.content).lower():
			available_in.append(city)
	return available_in


def has_booking_started(bot, update):
	available = check_if_booking_started()
	if len(available) > 0:
		update.message.reply_text("YES! Available in %s" % ",".join(available))
	else:
		update.message.reply_text("Nope :(")


def callback_check(bot, job):
	global ALREADY_TOLD
	available = check_if_booking_started()
	if len(available) > 0 and ALREADY_TOLD != len(available):
		bot.send_message(chat_id="@endgameBMS", text="Pre-booking has started in %s! HURRY!!" % ",".join(available))
		ALREADY_TOLD = len(available)


def new_cinema_added(bot, job):
	global CITYWISE_CINEMAS, SPECIFIC_URLS
	headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36'}
	available = check_if_booking_started()
	if len(available) > 0:
		for cat, url in SPECIFIC_URLS.items():
			try:
				data = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
				data = str(data.content)
				soup = BeautifulSoup(data, features="lxml")
				cinemas = soup.findAll("ul", {"id": "venuelist"})
				cinemas = soup.findAll("a", {"class": "__venue-name"})
				cinemas = [x.find('strong').contents[0] for x in cinemas]

				current_cinemas = CITYWISE_CINEMAS.get(cat, [])
				if set(current_cinemas) != set(cinemas):
					added = list(set(cinemas) - set(current_cinemas))
					if len(added) == 0:
						continue
					bot.send_message(chat_id="@endgameBMS", text="New Cinemas Added for %s (%d) : %s" % (cat, len(added), " , ".join(added)))
					CITYWISE_CINEMAS[cat] = cinemas
			except Exception as ex:
				print(ex)
				continue


updater = Updater(TOKEN)
job_queue = updater.job_queue

job_queue.run_repeating(callback_check, interval=60, first=0)
job_queue.run_repeating(new_cinema_added, interval=20, first=0)

updater.dispatcher.add_handler(CommandHandler('ask', has_booking_started))

updater.start_polling()
updater.idle()