IRCTC Tatkal Cypress Automation !

Now book your tatkal tickets under 1 min at ease by bypassing captcha and filling multiple passenger details at once. Let the script book it for you.

Note

This Cypress script for automating IRCTC ticket booking
is created strictly for educational purposes. The code and its
usage are intended to showcase Cypress testing capabilities and
best practices. Any attempt to use this script for unauthorized
access or activities that violate IRCTC terms of service or legal
regulations is strictly prohibited. The author(s) and associated
entities are not responsible for any misuse or legal consequences 
resulting from the use of this script for any unauthorized 
activities.

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Features it has right now?

• ✓ Can book Tatkal and Normal Tickets as well.
• ✓ Can book tickets for you if you open even 2-3 minutes before tatkal time.
• ✓ Signing in with your username and password.
• ✓ Filling Captchas and retrying untill success.
• ✓ Support for Food Choices, Seats Preferences.
• ✓ Will Book only if confirm berths are alloted.
• ✓ Multiple passengers supported.
• ✓ Pre filling all your information.
• ✓ Payment Gateway Automation (Paying With UPI ID OR QR Code).

How to Make this work for you?

• Things you need in your system NodeJS, Python.
• Make relevant changes in file located at cypress/fixtures/passenger_data.json

Tip

Filling Your UPI ID Will Initiate A Payment Request Directly. But it's a bit slow generally would take 2 or 3 sec to arrive request on your smartphone. If Your are not using this then you can scan and pay directly which would be much faster.

{
  "TRAIN_NO": "12318",
  "TRAIN_COACH": "3A",
  "TRAVEL_DATE": "12/09/2023",
  "SOURCE_STATION": "UMB",
  "BOARDING_STATION": null, <-- Change to full station name if required, else leave null
  "DESTINATION_STATION": "BSB",
  "TATKAL": true,
  "UPI_ID": "",
  "PASSENGER_DETAILS": [
    {
      "NAME": "SHIVAM PANDEY",
      "AGE": 25,
      "GENDER": "Male",
      "SEAT": "Side Upper",
      "FOOD" "No Food"
    }
  ],

}

• Below are the relevant values you can use for TRAIN_COACH, GENDER , SEAT

---

"__valid_coaches__": "SL | 2A | 3A | 3E | 1A | CC | EC | 2S", <---------- Please Use Only from these values.
"__valid_seats__": "Lower | Middle | Upper | Side Lower | Side Upper | Window Side | No Preference",   <---------- Please Use Only from these values.
"__valid_genders__": "Male | Female | Transgender", <---------- Please Use Only from these values.
"__valid_food_choices__": "Veg | Non Veg | No Food" <---------- Please Use Only from these values.

---

• You can add multiple passenger array of objects in PASSENGER_DETAILS as an example below

{
  "TRAIN_NO": "12318",
  "TRAIN_COACH": "3A",
  "TRAVEL_DATE": "12/09/2023",
  "SOURCE_STATION": "UMB",
  "BOARDING_STATION": null, <-- Change to full station name if required, else leave null
  "DESTINATION_STATION": "BSB",
  "TATKAL": true,
  "UPI_ID": "",
  "PASSENGER_DETAILS": [
    {
      "NAME": "SHIVAM PANDEY",
      "AGE": 26,
      "GENDER": "Male",
      "SEAT": "Side Upper",
      "FOOD" "No Food"
    },
    {
      "NAME": "Rachna Bhagat",
      "AGE": 26,
      "GENDER": "Female",
      "SEAT": "Side Lower",
      "FOOD" "No Food"
    },
    {
      "NAME": "Passenger 3 Name",
      "AGE": 26,
      "GENDER": "Female",
      "SEAT": "Side Lower",
      "FOOD" "No Food"
    }
  ],

}

• You can configure your IRCTC username , password in cypress.env.json

Tip

If you wish to enter CAPTCHA manually, then change MANUAL_CAPTCHA to true in cypress.env.json

{
    "username": "yourusername",
    "password": "yourpassword",
    "MANUAL_CAPTCHA": false
}

Running This On Your System... ?

Running this whole bunch.. ?

Installation Guide

• Clone the code git clone https://github.com/shivamguys/irctc-cypress-automation.git or download the code zip files.
• Make sure you have Nodejs and npm installed in your system you can visit NodeJs official website you will have full instruction guide present over there to install in your system.

Sample Nodejs and npm installation in Linux

# installs NVM (Node Version Manager)
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash
# download and install Node.js
nvm install 21
# verifies the right Node.js version is in the environment
node -v # should print `v21.7.1`
# verifies the right NPM version is in the environment
npm -v # should print `10.5.0`

After NodeJs and Npm Installation, its time for you to install python and pip3 on your system.

After Python Installation Follow Below Steps.......

In Case You Want To Install Pip3 here's the command to install in Linux

sudo apt-get install python3-pip -y

After Pip3 Installation you can install all requirements by pasting below command.

pip3 install -r irctc-captcha-solver/requirements.txt # <---- Make Sure You Run This Command From Code Folder. 

Check If Everything Works Fine....

This Would Print No base-64 String provided Which Means You Have Followed Correctly at this point.

python irctc-captcha-solver/app.py ""

Last Step That's It...........

npm install # <---- Make Sure You Run This Command From Code Folder. 
npx cypress run --headed --no-exit # <---- Make Sure You Run This Command From Code Folder.