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Web scraping tool to scrape a dynamic page based on current day

I need to scrape a Theatre webpage to know whether the bookings for next week has been opened. I am planning to write a scraper if the page has the required HTML element for the next Friday based on the current date.

For e.g. If the current date is June 4-9, I should scrape the page https://www.spicinemas.in/chennai/show-times/10-06-2016?seats=2

Basically the date in Url will be the next Friday as it is the releasing date.

For specific movies, I like to store the name and its releasing date in DB so that it will take special cases for them.

Which tool would be optimal and take least time? I need to write this for several Movieplex websites and each one has different mechanism to check if the booking has been opened.

Is e.g. PhantomJS suitable for this? Please suggest.

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