⚠️ Note

This project is out of date. However, it can be used as a starting point for a web scraping app or reservation/purchasing bot 🤖.

⛷️ Description

We were tired of waiting for covid-restricted reservations to open up so we made this script to automatically reserve Ikon mountain reservations when they became available 😎. This project uses python 3 🐍, and selenium.

🎥 Demo

Shows the ikon site being clicked through automatically, the email alert for reservation opening, and reservation confirmation.

🔥 Usage

• Input reservations you want in the text file datesToReserve.txt, delimited by commas
  • format: [month],[day],[year],[mountain],[email]
  • ie: 3,7,2021,Arapahoe Basin,[email protected]
    • note: if you input the same date but with a different mountain, the script will reserve first one that opens up
• Make sure the mountain name you input is the exact name used on Ikon site 🏔️
• Run src/main.py [email] [password] from top directory of project with python3
  • $py src/main.py [email] [password]
• You can turn off headless mode to watch scraper click through site 👀
  • set HEADLESS to 0 in top of main.py
  • note you might not be able to if you are running on an external server
• You can change email alert settings in ikonScraperInterface.py
  • set ALERT_ALL_OPENINGS to True if you want to receive alerts on every reservation that becomes open since time of running script
  • comment out emailInterface.sendDateToReserveAlertEmail() if you don't want to receive emails after a reservation is made

🔌 Installation

💻 Windows (roughly same for Mac)

• install python3
• install selenium
  • $py -m pip install selenium
  • use equivalent command for Mac ^
• install chrome
• install chrome driver for the version of chrome you have (86/87/88/etc) and system you are using (windows/mac)
  • Download chrome driver here: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
  • you can see your chrome version here: chrome://settings/help
• add chromedriver file to PATH or put in top directory of this project

💻 Ubuntu

• install python3
  • $sudo apt-get install python3
• install pip
  • $sudo apt-get install python3-pip
• install selenium for python
  • $py -m pip3 install selenium
• install selenium and chrome driver for web server (just run this even if not using server)
  • $py setup/installSelenium.py
  • ctrl-c once this is done running
  • follow this link if anything goes wrong: https://tecadmin.net/setup-selenium-chromedriver-on-ubuntu/
• install chrome
  • $sudo apt-get install libxss1 libappindicator1 libindicator7
  • $wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
  • $sudo apt install ./google-chrome*.deb
• remove junk files
  • $rm selenium-server-standalone-3.13.0.jar
  • $rm chromedriver_linux64
  • $rm testng-6.8.7.jar
  • $rm testng-6.8.7.jar.zip

Created by Jake Johnson 🏂 and Preston Windfeldt ⛷️

Special thanks to Anthony Cudzinovica and Alex Hirst 😀