Tate ticket checker

Tate ticket checker checks the Tate.org.uk shop to see if there are tickets available in the near future (today onwards) for a selected event. It will send an email when tickets become available.

I wrote this with Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms in mind - this exhibition was sold out 6+ months in advance but returns can come available at the shop at any time.

Requirements

This application is designed to live on AWS (requires account) and requires Node.js 14+ and Serverless

• Node.js
• Serverless Framework

You will need to setup a verified identity in Amazon SES to get the email feature to work correctly

Environment variables

You will need to create a copy of .env.sample in the root directory and rename it to .env before updating the values as you want them

• TICKET_URL - this can stay as is
• EVENT_ID - the event ID (find this by going to the exhibition in the shop and inspecting the url)
• NUM_DAYS - the number of days to check (1 will check only today, 2 will check today and tomorrow, etc)
• INTERVAL_MINS - the check interval (eg 5 will check every 5 minutes)
• DYNAMO_TABLE_NAME - the name of the Dynamodb table
• EMAIL_ADDRESS - the email address that will be both the 'from' and 'to' email address (needs to be real)

Deploy to AWS

npm install
npm run layers
sls deploy

You can verify the deployment was successful by running

sls invoke -f check

Run tests

jest

Remove the service

sls remove