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Monitor availability of limited rewards tiers using only API calls (no scraping!)
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Python 2.7.10 (default, Oct 23 2015, 18:05:06) | |
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.59.5)] on darwin | |
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. | |
>>> WARNING: The version of Tcl/Tk (8.5.9) in use may be unstable. | |
Visit http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/ for current information. | |
>>> import requests, json | |
>>> from lxml import etree | |
>>> from StringIO import StringIO | |
>>> from pprint import pprint | |
>>> | |
>>> MAX_RWD_DESC = 20 | |
>>> | |
>>> session = requests.Session() | |
>>> r = session.get('https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/248983394/ossic-x-the-first-3d-audio-headphones-calibrated-t/pledge/new') | |
>>> rt = etree.parse(StringIO(r.text), etree.HTMLParser(encoding = 'UTF-8')) | |
>>> reward_data = [json.loads(i.attrib['data-reward']) for i in rt.xpath('//*[contains(concat(" ", @class, " "), " pledge-selectable ")]')] | |
>>> reward_urls = [{i['reward'][0:MAX_RWD_DESC]: i.get('urls')} for i in reward_data] | |
>>> pprint(reward_urls) | |
[{u'No Reward': None}, | |
{u'THANK YOU! Every bit': {u'api': {u'reward': u'https://api.kickstarter.com/v1/projects/1241205786/rewards/4815481?signature=1460763286.1cd3f1e0c00a939925918947d0503f58ae71b4c5'}}}, | |
{u'OSSIC BRANDED GOOGLE': {u'api': {u'reward': u'https://api.kickstarter.com/v1/projects/1241205786/rewards/4815483?signature=1460763286.03254280d983f1f8ee85beeac57145fd70478a8b'}}}, | |
{u'SUPER EARLY BIRD: SA': {u'api': {u'reward': u'https://api.kickstarter.com/v1/projects/1241205786/rewards/4815484?signature=1460763286.afb10489cf62ee612cdd9a9e09573155b8a92703'}}}, | |
{u'EARLY BIRD: SAVE $18': {u'api': {u'reward': u'https://api.kickstarter.com/v1/projects/1241205786/rewards/4815485?signature=1460763286.8478f8fe803ae9376e9ea26efd6a7d1d2cfb19d3'}}}, | |
{u'KICKSTARTER SPECIAL:': {u'api': {u'reward': u'https://api.kickstarter.com/v1/projects/1241205786/rewards/4815486?signature=1460763286.8aff8fcee9644c819a065ff9ccf6ae3b49bc64ec'}}}, | |
{u'KICKSTARTER LAST CHA': {u'api': {u'reward': u'https://api.kickstarter.com/v1/projects/1241205786/rewards/5005057?signature=1460763286.dcfba2ae0aeac75891a5f1a005a7606131cf9d27'}}}, | |
{u'EXCLUSIVE INNOVATOR ': {u'api': {u'reward': u'https://api.kickstarter.com/v1/projects/1241205786/rewards/4815488?signature=1460763286.5ef69b76905afa352bf7699861035e2ef4b25550'}}}] | |
>>> | |
>>> | |
>>> r2 = session.get('https://api.kickstarter.com/v1/projects/1241205786/rewards/4815486?signature=1460763286.8aff8fcee9644c819a065ff9ccf6ae3b49bc64ec') | |
>>> reward = json.loads(r2.text) | |
>>> reward['shipping_rules'] = [] | |
>>> pprint(reward) | |
{u'backers_count': 4444, | |
u'description': u'KICKSTARTER SPECIAL: SAVE $150\r\nYou\u2019ll receive one OSSIC X headphone. You\u2019re one of the first onboard the audio revolution!', | |
u'estimated_delivery_on': 1483228800, | |
u'id': 4815486, | |
u'limit': 6000, | |
u'minimum': 249.0, | |
u'project_id': 1241205786, | |
u'remaining': 1556, | |
u'reward': u'KICKSTARTER SPECIAL: SAVE $150\r\nYou\u2019ll receive one OSSIC X headphone. You\u2019re one of the first onboard the audio revolution!', | |
u'shipping_enabled': True, | |
u'shipping_preference': u'unrestricted', | |
u'shipping_rules': [], | |
u'shipping_summary': u'Ships anywhere in the world', | |
u'updated_at': 1460677120, | |
u'urls': {u'api': {u'reward': u'https://api.kickstarter.com/v1/projects/1241205786/rewards/4815486?signature=1460763785.02f80a134adb8c26e81b6226dd158987ad1a71b7'}}} | |
>>> |
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import json, urllib2 | |
from time import sleep, ctime | |
from random import random | |
def send_email(): | |
print('Importing libraries...') | |
import smtplib | |
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart | |
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText | |
print('Composing and sending...') | |
#Edit this stuff... | |
user = 'user@example.com' | |
pswd = 'secretkey' | |
recipient = 'user@example.com' | |
smtp = smtplib.SMTP() | |
smtp.connect('smtp.gmail.com', 587) | |
smtp.ehlo() | |
smtp.starttls() | |
smtp.login(user, pswd) | |
message = MIMEMultipart() | |
message['From'] = 'noreply' | |
message['To'] = recipient | |
message['Subject'] = 'Kickstarter alert' | |
html = """<html><head></head><body><p>Kickstarter alert</p></body></html>""" | |
message.attach(MIMEText(html, 'html')) | |
smtp.sendmail('noreply', recipient, message.as_string()) | |
smtp.close() | |
print('Done!') | |
def monitor(url): | |
done = False | |
while (not done): | |
r = urllib2.urlopen(url) | |
reward = json.loads(r.read()) | |
remaining = reward['remaining'] | |
if remaining > 0: | |
send_email() | |
done = True | |
else: | |
#update the url to fetch | |
url = reward['urls']['api']['reward'] | |
signature = url.split("signature=",1)[1].split('.') | |
print(ctime(float(signature[0])) + " hash:" + signature[1]) | |
sleep(8 + random() * 4) |
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