blackcanyontickets/eventscrape.md

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\f0\fs28 \cf2 Got it '97 if the main site dev is a bottleneck, scraping is your best move.

Here'92s a battle-tested, lightweight scraping plan to monitor https://blackcanyontickets.com/events and detect when the currently active event changes, then extract details from the redirected event page to trigger a calendar update.

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\uc0\u55358 \u56816 Scraper Stack Recommendation

Tool Purpose
node-fetch or axios Follow (or block) redirect from /events
cheerio Parse HTML from the actual event page
node-cron or supabase.functions.schedule() Run on a schedule
fs or Supabase Store last seen event slug for diffing


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\uc0\u9989 Working Scraper Skeleton (Node.js)

import fetch from 'node-fetch';
import cheerio from 'cheerio';
import fs from 'fs/promises';

const REDIRECT_URL = 'https://blackcanyontickets.com/events';
const BASE_URL = 'https://blackcanyontickets.com';

async function getCurrentEventSlug() {
const res = await fetch(REDIRECT_URL, { redirect: 'manual' });
return res.headers.get('location') || null;
}

async function fetchEventDetails(slug) {
const res = await fetch($\{BASE_URL\}$\{slug\});
const html = await res.text();
const $ = cheerio.load(html);

return {
slug,
title: $('h1').first().text().trim(),
date: $('[data-event-date]').text().trim(), // tweak selector to match
time: $('[data-event-time]').text().trim(), // tweak selector to match
};
}

async function loadLastSeenSlug() {
try {
return await fs.readFile('./last_slug.txt', 'utf-8');
} catch {
return null;
}
}

async function saveLastSeenSlug(slug) {
await fs.writeFile('./last_slug.txt', slug);
}

async function run() {
const currentSlug = await getCurrentEventSlug();
if (!currentSlug) return console.log('No event redirect found');

const lastSeen = await loadLastSeenSlug();
if (currentSlug === lastSeen) {
return console.log('No new event');
}

const details = await fetchEventDetails(currentSlug);
console.log('\uc0\u55356 \u57247 \u65039 New event found:', details);

// TODO: Push to calendar / Supabase / webhook

await saveLastSeenSlug(currentSlug);
}

run();


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\uc0\u55357 \u56658 Optional: Add Cron Job

With node-cron:

import cron from 'node-cron';

cron.schedule('*/15 * * * *', () => {
run();
});

Or deploy to:
'95 A lightweight VM
'95 Supabase Edge Function (on trigger)
'95 GitHub Actions (with secrets)

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\uc0\u55357 \u56615 Next Steps
'95 Paste in a real event HTML snippet if you want me to write exact cheerio selectors
'95 Want to output .ics or send it straight to Google Calendar?
'95 Want this wrapped as a Docker container or systemd service?

You'92re one command away from auto-watching your own platform.}