ticketmaster_resale_search.py

import json
import time
import requests
import pprint

headers = """
Host: www.ticketmaster.com
Connection: keep-alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Accept: text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*
X-Prototype-Version: 1.7
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36
Referer: http://www.ticketmaster.com/Richard-Rodgers-Theatre-tickets-New-York/venue/24592
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,es;q=0.6
"""
headers = headers.strip().split('\n')
headers = dict(tuple(v.strip() for v in h.split(':', 1)) for h in headers)

stub = 'http://www.ticketmaster.com/json/resale?command=get_resale_listings&event_id={}&location=RLP&ps=50&pn=1&mp=&mmp=&qty=2&sname=&sn=&so=&si=&iss=1&vfs=0&rsf=1&fbp=1'

session = requests.Session()

resp = session.get('http://www.ticketmaster.com/json/search/event?vid=24592', headers=headers)
content = resp.content.decode()
events = json.loads(content)
docs = events['response']['docs']
event_ids = [d.get('EventId') for d in docs]

results = []
for eid in event_ids:
    print(eid)
    resp = session.get(stub.format(eid), headers=headers)
    content = resp.content.decode()
    content = json.loads(content)
    listings = content['listings']
    for listing in listings:
        results.append((listing['price'], eid))
    time.sleep(1)

pprint.pprint(sorted(results))