/slovakrail-ticket-script

Script for automated buying tickets for slovak rails https://ikvc.slovakrail.sk/esales/search

Primary LanguagePythonGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

slovakrail-ticket-script

Automated free ticket buying at ikvc.slovakrail.sk/esales/search.

Script will click on buttons and fill up the input boxes for you with the predefined data in person.txt file.

The only thing what you are required to do is to launch the script with exact stations (departure and arrival station), date and time for your train.

Requirements

  • python >= 3.6.7
  • geckodriver >= 0.24.0
  • firefox >= 65.0.1
  • pip packages:
    • flake8 >= 2.5.4
    • mccabe >= 0.4.0
    • pep8 >= 1.7.0
    • pyflakes >= 1.0.0
    • selenium >= 2.53.2
    • unidecode >= 0.4.19

Installation

Ubuntu/Debian

Ubuntu 16.04.6

  1. Set your account credentials in person.txt.

  2. Initialize the environment via these commands:

# 1) python3.6 + pip3
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.6 python3-pip

# 2) geckodriver
wget --verbose https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.24.0/geckodriver-v0.24.0-linux64.tar.gz
tar --extract --verbose --gzip --file geckodriver-v0.24.0-linux64.tar.gz
chmod +x --verbose geckodriver
sudo mv --verbose geckodriver /usr/local/bin
rm --verbose --force geckodriver-v0.24.0-linux64.tar.gz

# 3) repository
git clone https://github.com/astaruch/slovakrail-ticket-script.git
cd slovakrail-ticket-script

# 4) requirements
python3.6 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

# 5) help test
python3.6 buy_ticket.py --help
  1. See Usage section.

Usage

Options

Order does not matter.

Mandatory

  • Departure station -D "Foo" or --departure "Foo"
  • Arrival station -A "Bar" or --arrival "Bar"
  • Departure time -t "HH:MM" or --time "HH:MM"
  • Departure date -d "DD.MM.YYYY" or --date "DD.MM.YYYY"

Optional

  • Headless browser mode -H or --headless
    • web browser without a graphical user interface

Examples

  • Help

     python3.6 buy_ticket -h

    or

    python3.6 buy_ticket --help

  • Usage example

     python3.6 buy_ticket.py -D "Bratislava hl.st." -A "Kúty" -t "05:16" -d "18.03.2019"

    or

    python3.6 buy_ticket.py --departure "Bratislava hl.st." --arrival "Kúty" --time "05:16" --date "18.03.2019"

  • Headless example

    python3.6 buy_ticket.py -D "Bratislava hl.st." -A "Kúty" -t "05:16" -d "18.03.2019" -H

    or

    python3.6 buy_ticket.py --departure "Bratislava hl.st." --arrival "Kúty" --time "05:16" --date "18.03.2019" --headless

Help

If you have purchased a wrong ticket you are able to cancel it here.

In case of any problem, please feel free to open an issue and specify the problem with detailed description.

Contributing

Feel free to contribute via opening a pull request or an issue.

License

This project is available as open source under the terms of the GPL-3.0 License.