Automated Ticket Booking for Berliner Bäder

Automate booking time slot tickets for public swimming pools in Berlin. This application will book tickets for the next available slot or a given time slot. The tickets only represent a time slot, you still need entrance tickets, which you can purchase at the entrance.

Usage

The recommended way to use this is via the Docker image as it contains the latest tested version.

Example

$ docker run --rm ghcr.io/schlomo/berliner-baeder-booking slots lankwitz
berliner-baeder-booking e477390
Using pool Stadtbad Lankwitz
Available slots:
Thu, March 24, 2022, 10:15 AM → 13:15
Thu, March 24, 2022, 01:30 PM → 16:30
Thu, March 24, 2022, 08:00 PM → 22:00
Fri, March 25, 2022, 08:00 AM → 10:00
Fri, March 25, 2022, 10:15 AM → 13:15
Fri, March 25, 2022, 01:30 PM → 16:30
Fri, March 25, 2022, 08:00 PM → 22:00
Sat, March 26, 2022, 06:45 PM → 22:00
Sun, March 27, 2022, 06:45 PM → 22:00
Mon, March 28, 2022, 08:00 AM → 10:00

Installation

To make calling the tool easier I suggest to set an alias, e.g. add this to your ~/.bash_profile or appropriate shell configuration file:

alias bbb="docker run --rm ghcr.io/schlomo/berliner-baeder-booking"

Complete Help

$ bbb help

  berliner-baeder-booking v1-10-g48b68a9 — Automate booking time slot tickets for public swimming pools in Berlin

  USAGE 
  
    ▸ berliner-baeder-booking <command> [ARGUMENTS...] [OPTIONS...]


  Examples:
  asap "Mariendorf (" your@email.domain
  book lankwitz Donnerstag 17:00 your@email.domain 5


  COMMANDS — Type 'berliner-baeder-booking help <command>' to get some help about a command

    pools                                List pools and courses                                 
    slots                                List available time slots for a pool                   
    book                                 Book a slot for specific date and time                 
    asap                                 Book a slot as soon as possible                        

  GLOBAL OPTIONS

    -h, --help                           Display global help or command-related help.           
    -V, --version                        Display version.                                       
    --no-color                           Disable use of colors in output.                       
    -v, --verbose                        Verbose mode: will also output debug messages.         
    --quiet                              Quiet mode - only displays warn and error messages.    
    --silent                             Silent mode: does not output anything, giving no       
                                         indication of success or failure other than the exit   
                                         code.

Development

Install NodeJS version 17 and activate yarn. Run yarn for setup, we use Yarn v3 and PNP.

Use yarn dev to run from source.

Improvements

Add documentation for Windows users (Pull Request is welcome)
Smarter waiting with less frequent polling
Automated tests?

schlomo / berliner-baeder-booking