Tennis Court Booking System

This repo contains a small and lightweight full-stack application I made to automate the booking of tennis court at my local tennis club since they are in high demand. It makes use of API endpoints I reverse-engineering from their mobile app.

Stack

• PHP for handling web equest, building DOM elements and managing the database
• SQLite for a lightweight file-based database
• HTML and CSS for the (rather simple) frontend
• Python for the actual booking through the API (uses curl_cffi for TLS spoofing)
• Cron for scheduling when to try and book courts

Running

Webserver

Also make sure to have php and an sqlite php plugin installed. On linux you can install these with

sudo apt install php-sqlite3 php-cli

You must have php installed to run the webserver with

php -S localhost:8000

The database will automatically be created with the correct tables once you access the app at localhost:8000.

Scheduled Booking

The Python requirements can be found in requirements.txt. I suggest running this in a virtual environment or with conda. There is an example bash script included to automate this. There is also an example crontab entry which you can use to run the booking system at a set time. The booking system will take all of the requested booking times and dates and try to match them with an available court and book it.

Logging

Logging for the booking system is set up with the logging Python package and will be saved to a courtBooker.log file.

Credentials

You must add a credentials.json file in the root of this directory with the username and password for accessing the API in the following format

{
    "username": "username",
    "password": "password"
}

The actual API URLS cannot be found in this repo.