README.md

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Intro

This script/program is made to extract information about ticket sells from safeticket.dk and send it in an email to the IT Unions there are specials deal for there members.

Here are a list of the scripts arguments. Most of them are there to help configure it.
Note: This script will not send emails before the --send-emails argument is used.

usage: main.py [-h] [--debug] [--events] [--tickets] [--ticket-fields] [--ticket-stats] [--show-emails] [--send-emails]

SafeTicket Mailer

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --debug          Print a lot of info
  --events         Print all events
  --tickets        Print all the types of ticket of an event
  --ticket-fields  Print all the possible fields existion for the tickets
  --ticket-stats   Print ticket types and there stats for the event
  --show-emails    Display the email there is going to be sendt
  --send-emails    This will send the emails to the unions

Requirements

requirements.txt

Install systemd services

The script is meant to be run user a service user, so if you don't have one, create a service user and enable it as a linger with sudo loginctl enable-linger USER.

Now enter user service user sudo -u USER -i.

# Go to the home folder
cd

# Git clone this project
git clone "https://github.com/Hal9k-dk/safeticket_mailer"

# enter the folder
cd safeticket_mailer

# Create symbolic links for everything bin running this script
bin/install_symbolic_links_to_services.sh

Configuration

Copy the config.example.py to config.py and change the variables in the file. There are a lot of comment/description for all the variables in the config-file that it shouldn't be a problem mail it work.

Check out the config.example.py file.

Start the systemd tiemr (scheduler for the service)

Check the systemd.service/safeticket-mailer.timer to figure out when it is running

systemctl --user enable --now safeticket-mailer.timer

A small library have been written to interact with Safeticket

safeticket_wrapper