Alibaba.ir - Check if flight is available and alert in telegram

flight-checker.py

import hashlib
import os

import requests

# ============== Variables ==============
url = "https://ws.alibaba.ir/api/v1/flights/domestic/available/"
telegram_token = ""  # os.environ["TOKEN"]
chat_id = ""  # os.environ["CHAT_ID"]
searches = [
    '',
]

# ============== Program ==============
headers = {
    'ab-channel': 'WEB-NEW,PRODUCTION,CSR,www.alibaba.ir,N,Chrome,104.0.0.0,N,N,Mac OS',
    'sec-ch-ua-mobile': '?0',
    'Accept': 'application/json, text/plain, */*',
    'Referer': 'https://www.alibaba.ir/',
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
    'sec-ch-ua-platform': '"macOS"',
    'sec-ch-ua': '"Chromium";v="104", " Not A;Brand";v="99", "Google Chrome";v="104"',
}

request_list = [requests.request("GET", f'{url}{search}', headers=headers) for search in searches]


def send_message(message):
    send_text = 'https://api.telegram.org/bot' + telegram_token + '/sendMessage?chat_id=' + chat_id \
                + '&parse_mode=Markdown&text=' + message
    return requests.request('GET', send_text)


# open alerted flights if exists
if os.path.exists('alerted_flights.txt'):
    with open('alerted_flights.txt', 'r') as f:
        alerted_flights = f.read().splitlines()
else:
    alerted_flights = []

for request in request_list:
    try:
        flights = request.json()['result']['departing']
        for flight in flights:
            if flight['seat'] != 0:
                origin = flight['originName']
                destination = flight['destinationName']
                time = flight['leaveDateTime'].split('T')[1][:-3]
                date = flight['leaveDateTime'].split('T')[0]
                status = flight['statusName']
                flight_id = flight['flightId']

                if flight_id is not None and flight_id != '' and ':' in flight_id:
                    f_id = ':'.join(str(flight_id).split(':')[:-1]) + f'${status}'
                else:
                    f_id = f'{origin}:{destination}:{flight["flightNumber"]}:{time}:{date}:{status}'

                hash_f_id = hashlib.md5(f_id.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()

                if hash_f_id not in alerted_flights:
                    message = f'{origin} {destination} - {time}\n{status}\n{date}'
                    send_message(message)

                    # save alerted flights
                    alerted_flights.append(f'{hash_f_id}')
                    with open('alerted_flights.txt', 'a') as f:
                        f.write(f'{hash_f_id}\n')
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)
        pass

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