So you've finally decided you want to check out that super popular restaurant and you go to https://www.opentable.com/ to make a reservation, but you find out that it's fully booked for the next while. 😭😭😭
Good thing is though, people are super flaky and flop all the time, so reservations eventually open up (yay!). Use this scheduler to be notified when the next reservation opens up!
$ git clone [email protected]:iminoso/opentable-scheduler.git
$ cd opentable-scheduler
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
- Create an account at sendgrid.com.
- Go to app.sendgrid.com/settings/api_keys and create an api key
The config file config.yml is as shown:
EMAIL: '<email to send notifications to>'
SENDGRID_APIKEY: '<send grid api key>'
OPENTABLE_ID: '<open table restaurant id>'
DATETIME: '<date to query reservation search around>'
PEOPLE: '<number of people for reservation>'
DATE_SEARCH_START: '<filter search start date>'
DATE_SEARCH_END: '<filter search end date>'
TIME_SEARCH_START: '<filter earliest time available>'
TIME_SEARCH_END: '<filter latest time available>'
Replace the <...> fields as follows:
EMAIL: The email you want notifications to be sent when a reservation opens up.
SENDGRID_APIKEY: The api key you created with your sendgrid account.
OPENTABLE_ID: A little bit of "hacking" to find this field. Navigate to the restaurant you want to make the reservation at. Before clicking Find a Table, open the chrome debugger by right click > inspect. Head to the Network tab and now click the Find a Table button. Click the search link request. The OPENTABLE_ID is in the path of the request https://www.opentable.com/restaurant/profile/<OPENTABLE_ID>/search.
DATETIME: Date to search around in the following format Year-Month-Day Time, eg 2017-07-21 19:00.
PEOPLE: Number of people for the booking.
DATE_SEARCH_START: The earliest possible date you want for the reservation in the format of Year-Month-Day, eg 2017-07-21.
DATE_SEARCH_END: The latest possible date you want for the reservation in the format of Year-Month-Day, eg 2017-07-23.
TIME_SEARCH_START: The earliest time of the day you want for your reservation in the format of Time, eg 18:00.
TIME_SEARCH_END: The latest time of the day you want for your reservation in the format of Time, eg 22:00.
Run the scheduler as:
$ python scheduler.py
The scheduler runs every 5 minutes to check if there is a reservation available at your selected restaurant.
An option for hosting the app on a cloud service.
- Create an account at heroku.com
- Install the CLI
$ brew install heroku
- Login using the CLI
$ heroku login
Enter your Heroku credentials.
Email: <email to enter>
Password (typing will be hidden):
Authentication successful.
- In the directory of this app, create a heroku instance
$ heroku create
Creating app... done, ⬢ sleepy-meadow-81798
- Deploy the app
$ git push heroku master
Initializing repository, done.
updating 'refs/heads/master'
...
- Now the app should be running in your created heroku instance
- Check the status of the app by inspecting logs
$ heroku logs