/us_visa_appointment_scrapper

For scheduling and Rescheduling US Visa Appointment

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us_visa_appointment_scrapper

For scheduling and Rescheduling US Visa Appointment

Prerequisite

  • ubuntu arm instance (should be working in non-arm device too !)
  • python3
  • pip
  • Telegram group chat with bot

    • create a new bot docs

    • send a test message to the bot

    • Add the Telegram BOT to the group.

      • Get the list of updates for your BOT:
      https://api.telegram.org/bot<YourBOTToken>/getUpdates

      Ex:

      https://api.telegram.org/bot123456789:jbd78sadvbdy63d37gda37bd8/getUpdates
      • Look for the "chat" object and get the group_id:
      {"update_id":8393,"message":{"message_id":3,"from":{"id":7474,"first_name":"AAA"},"chat":{"id":<group_ID>,"title":""},"date":25497,"new_chat_participant":{"id":71,"first_name":"NAME","username":"YOUR_BOT_NAME"}}}
  • pagem api_key and app_id - docs

Additional Info

This script is tested working on follwoing versions on arm device

$ date
Thu Aug  4 11:35:25 UTC 2022

$ uname -a
Linux hms-684508 5.13.0-1030-oracle #35~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 25 23:19:48 UTC 2022 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

$ python3 --version
Python 3.8.10

$ pip --version
pip 22.2.1 from /home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip (python 3.8)

Setup

  1. run ./setup.sh script
  2. replace the values in creds.py
  3. create a crontab entry for your use case, replace SCRIPT_DIRECTORY with the location where you cloned the repo 
    # for scheduling
*/15 * * * * ! test -f SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/cron_test.txt && cd SCRIPT_DIRECTORY && python3 check_new_appointment.py > /dev/null 2>&1

# for re-scheduling
*/15 * * * * ! test -f SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/cron_test.txt && cd SCRIPT_DIRECTORY && python3 reschedule_appointment.py > /dev/null 2>&1
  4. [OPTIONAL] Send a test message to telegram
python3 ./telegram.py

Huge Shout Out (Thanks ! ✨)

Thanks to the following repository and the author for their wonderfull work, I copied most of the code from them and modified for my purpose and use case to support pagem for paging me.