sceance
Sceance is an application for moviegoers. If you provide it with a list of your favorite cinemas and your movie watchlist, it suggests showtimes, letting you watch your favorite movies in theaters.
It was designed with Paris, a city full of small and independent cinemas, in mind.
Installation
To start running sceance, install the project and enable the Google calendar API.
Dependencies
Most dependencies are optional:
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A Google Account: for sceance to create and suggest events to your calendar.
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Firefox or Chrome: to run the selenium headless browser to find film showings.
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A Letterboxd account: sceance currently provides a way of downloading your watchlist from letterboxd provided you store your letterboxd credentials in a .envrc file. This is done with the
update_watchlist.pyfile. Otherwise you can manually create a watchlist as a list of newline seperated film titles.
Download the app
You can install sceance with pip.
pip install sceance
To run sceance, simply call:
sceance
To get information on parameters run:
sceance -h
At this point, sceance can suggest films, but is unable to automatically add events to your google calendar.
If you want scence to add films to your calendar, you need to enable the google calendar API.
Enable the Google calendar API
To enable the Google calendar API, you need to download a credentials file from the following link and place it in the sceance/sceance/data subfolder. This file can be downloaded from the calendar API documentation. Call the file credentials.json.
Customize theaters.txt
Currently, the theaters.txt file will contain a set of my favorite Parisian movie theaters. If you live somewhere else (or want to add your own set of favorite theaters), you'll have to customize the file. This is also the case for your watchlist.txt file.
Customize watchlist.txt
If you have a letterboxd account, sceance provides a way to automatically download your watchlist. To do this, use the update_watchlist.py file. Make sure your watchlist is in English (which is currently the only language sceance supports). If you want to run sceance without providing a watchlist, you can use the -a flag, but this might provide you with a lot of movies.
How sceance works
Sceance uses selenium to gather showtime information for every theater in your theater.txt file, from Google. These films are then intersected with your watchlist. Details on the resulting films and their showtimes are then filtered out based on 9am-5pm monday-friday work hours (both workdays and hours are customizable).
For all the films that remain, you are prompted with a list of showtimes and can select one showtime per film.
This showtime is then automatically added to your calendar using the google calendar api. Note, for now this requires that you enable the Google calendar API: doing this allows sceance to write to your calendar.
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