Disney-Reservation-Checker

Checks for reservation availability for Walt Disney World restaurants

Purpose

When booking a vacation at Walt Disney World you can reserve a table up to 180 days in advanced. Some of the more desireable restraunts will be booked the full 6 months in advanced. This program aims Text the user when a reservation is found by constantly checking for new reservations.

How it works

This Python program leverages Selenium to check a list of restaurants and reservations you want to make every 5 minutes by spawning a copy of a ChromeDriver and using Disney's website to check for a reservation. The website is then processed and if a reservation if found the user will receive a text with the available times.

Technologies used

Twilio Api (to text the user)
Python 3.x
Selenium (for website scripting automation)

Getting Started

To get started you must install the dependencies:

Twilio
Selenium

Install via pip: pip install twilio & pip install selenium

If you are on OSX you should install chrome driver via brew. brew install chromedriver. Windows Users should be able to use the chromedriver provided.

Required Files:

This program requires you to have both accounts.json & places.json

I have included an example of places.json. The reservation you want to make is going to be stored in this file. Here is an example:

{
   "places": [{
   	"name": "Ohana",
   	"link": "https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/polynesian-resort/ohana/",

   	"reservations": [{
   			"time": "7:00pm",
   			"date": "08/27/17",
               "party":"2"
   		}
   	]
   },
     {
   	"name": "50's prime",
   	  "link": "https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/hollywood-studios/50s-prime-time-cafe/",
   	"reservations": [{
   			"time": "7:00 pm",
   			"date": "12/18/17",
               "party":"2"
   	},
   	 {
   	 "time": "8:00pm",
   	  "date": "01/01/17",
   	  "party":"3"
   	
   	}]
   	
   }
   ]
}

The name of the restaurant is what you will be text back so the value doesn't matter. The link to the restaurant must be the one that disney provides. Reservations require a time, date and party. They also must be in a specifc form.

Time: the format must be the follow: HH:MM pm or HH:MM am ex: "07:30 am". Times go by 30 minute increments, eg. 7:25 pm is NOT valid. The period must be in lower case

Date: the format must be DD/MM/YY eg. 01/01/17

Party: A reservation can be in the range of 1-49

accounts.json is used to text via your Twilio account. you must sign up for your own account which is free. All information must be filled in.

{
"account_sid": "",
"auth_token":"",
"twilio_number":"+11234567890",
"to_phone_number": ["+1234567890","+1234567890"]
}

account_sid & auth_token: The SID and token can be found at the Twilio Console

twilio_number: To obtain a twilio number follow this link