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This script polls the Gencon housing portal, displays available hotel rooms, and send alerts based upon user preferences.

This is written using Python 3.7, so please make sure you're using a modern version of Python

Output

The columns in the script's output are:

  • Hotel Name -- The name of the hotel found that meets supplied search filters
  • Distance -- How far away the hotel is. "Skywalk" means the hotel is connected to the ICC by a skywalk.
  • DistancUnit -- The unit type of the 'Distance' measure. Usually either '*' for Skywahlk rooms, 'Blocks', or 'Miles'.
  • Room Type -- The type of room - probably something like "Double/Double" or "King"
  • Price -- The total price, before taxes/fees. Essentially the nightly rate times the number of nights.
  • Total Price -- Price including taxes
  • Inventory -- The number of rooms of this type that are available

Setup

Either clone the script

https://github.com/overallcoma/gencon-hotels-lite.git

Or download the zip file

##Install required packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

##Config File Setup Modify the contents of gencon-hotels-lite.cfg to your requirements and save to gencon-hotes-lite.cfg The parameters do the following:

  • housing-token - This is your housing token value

  • housing-authstring = This is your housing auth string

  • check-frequency = This is how often the script updates the data. Default is 60. I highly recommend you don't drop it below 30 or you will likely get errors after a while.

  • check-in - The date you would like to check in (YYYY-MM-DD)

  • check-out - The date you would like to check out (YYY-MM-DD)

  • search-skywalk - Set the filter to accept the word "Skywalk" for a desired room. Set to 'true' or 'false'.

  • search-blocks - Set the filter to accept "Blocks" as an acceptable distance measure. Set to 'true' or 'false'.

  • max-blocks - Maximum measure of blocks to have included in the results. Required if 'search-blocks' is 'true'.

  • search-miles - Return results that have 'miles' in their distance measure. Set to 'true' or 'false'.

  • max-miles - Maximum measure of miles to have included in the results. Required if 'search-blocks' is set to 'true'.

  • hotel-name-filter-enabled - Enable or disable filtering based on name of hotel. Set to 'true' or 'false'.

  • hotel-name-filter-keyword - If 'hotel-name-filter-enabled' is set to true, this is required and provided the same to include in the filtered results.

  • hotel-room-filter-enabled - Enable or disable filtering based on keyword in the room type. Set to 'true' or 'false'.

  • hotel-room-filter-filter-include - If 'hotel-room-filter-enabled' is set to 'true', this is required and provides the keyword that is required for a room to be included in search results.

  • hotel-room-filter-filter-exclude = If 'hotel-room-filter-enabled' is set to 'true', this provides the keyword that excludes a room from search results.

  • send-email - Enables or Disables the sending of email alerts. Set to 'true' or 'false'.

  • send-sms - Enables or Disables the sending of SMS messages. Set to 'true' or 'false'.

  • from-user - if send-email is set to "true", this is the source from which the alert email will be sent

  • from-password - if send-email is set to "true", this is the password required for sending email from the "from-user" address

  • send-to - if send-email is set to "true", this is a list of emails which will receive the alerts. Please add additional emails seperated with a comman and no spaces.

  • smtp-server - if send-email is set to "true", this is the smtp server that will be used to send emails. Gmail is smtp.gmail.com.

  • smtp-port - if send-email is set to "true", this is the port to use when communicating with the smtp server. I'd suggest 465.

  • twilio-account-sid - if "send-sms" is set to true, this is your Twilio Account SID

  • twilio-account-auth - if "send-sms" is set to true, this is your Twilio Auth Token

  • from-number - if "send-sms" is set to true, this is the phone number from which the SMS messages will be sent

  • to-numbers - if "send-sms" is set to true, this is a list of target phone numbers seperated with a comma and no spaces. For example - "+15555555555,+11231234567"

Modify this file and save to gencon-hotels-lite.cfg in the same folder as gencon-hotels-lite.py If you are not using email and/or sms, you can leave the fields blank with the exception of the "true" or "false" values which much be filled in.

Running the Script

To fetch and run the script, open a terminal (Linux, Mac) / command prompt (Windows) and run:

python gencon-hotels-lite.py
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