Building a scraper to get info from a website like BookMyShow and notifying on changes - SMS, telegram etc.

1. Get data from BookMyShow or PayTM
2. Cron job
3. Sending alerts

• Find the API that gives us that info. We can then use that endpoint to detect any changes. (this is the simplest way)
• If API isn't possible, we'll have to scrape the website. (a bit more complex, but we can figure it out)

Find a way to execute our code periodically to check for changes.
We need a server that can host our code, needs to be on always.

Possible ways:

• Put it on your machine and keep the laptop on (simplest)
• Use an online hosting service - Replit, Catalyst etc.

Catalyst:

✔️Decision: We can use Catalyst since it's free and provides the CRON out of the box.

What ways are possible?
SMS, Telegram, Whatsapp, Cliq, Mail

• Find API to get data
• If no API, write code to scrape it
• Set up cron job
• Set up notification