GDQ registration scraper

gistfile1.txt

#in the "cookie" variable, replace remember_abc123456 with the name of your remember_* cookie in your browser
#and remembertokenhere with the token for that cookie
#you can find the cookie in chrome by going into the developer tools while on the page (Control-Shift-I in Windows)
#go to Application tab, choose Cookies

#uses python 3.6
#pip3 install requests
#pip3 install BeautifulSoup4
#pip3 install lxml

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

page_link = 'https://gamesdonequick.com/profile'

cookie = {
    'remember_abc123456': 'remembertokenhere'
}

page_response = requests.get(
    page_link,
    timeout=5,
    cookies=cookie
)

soup = BeautifulSoup(page_response.text, 'lxml')

regcount = soup.find('p', {'class': 'text-center'},text=True).contents[0].contents[0].split(' / ')

if int(regcount[0]) < int(regcount[1]):
    print('GDQ Registrations available')
else:
    print('GDQ registrations unavailable')