Check Taipei Universiade Tickets

tickets.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Usage : This will check against `page_url` every 180 seconds, put it in a screen or tmux session : 
# $ while true; do sh ticket.sh; sleep 180; done 
# 

page_url='https://tickets.2017.taipei/ticket/area/17_TPE_18/2952'
email='xxx@gmail.com'

#Let's check the length return of the event page
page=`curl -s ${page_url}`
size=${#page}

# The len is longer than 264 chararacters, the tickets is available!
if [ "$size" -gt 264 ]
then
    echo "Ticket available! :)"
    echo "Buy ticket now! -> ${page_url}" | mail -s "Volleyball Ticket available TPE-JPN FRA-BRA" ${email}
else
    echo "Still sold out..."
fi

This script was used to get notified by email when some tickets for volleyball games were released during Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade