konsulatet

Selenium script to scrape for Swedish consulate passport renewal appointments

Usage

Get a https://www.twilio.com/ trial account, get a twilio phone number & verify the phone number you want to send sms to
brew install maven (if you don’t have maven + java)
git clone git@github.com:danielnorberg/konsulatet.git
cd konsulatet
TWILIO_SID=badf00d TWILIO_TOKEN=badf00d NOTIFICATION_NUMBERS=+12222222222,+13333333333 TWILIO_NUMBER=+14444444444 ./run.sh
Verify that you get the hello world SMS on startup, otherwise something is wrong and you might not get any notifications for appointments.

The TWILIO_SID, TWILIO_TOKEN env vars should be set to your twilio SID and auth token.
TWILIO_NUMBER should be your assigned Twilio phone number.
NOTIFICATION_NUMBERS Can be one or more comma separated numbers to send SMS to. Note that the numbers must be verified in your Twilio account.

The application checks for open appointments in both the Washington DC Embassy and the NYC Consulate.
The run.sh script tries to run the application forever and restart it on crash.
An SMS is sent if the application crashes so you can debug and get it up and running again.
SMS are throttled to not notify more than once an hour for either embassy or consulate. To clear the throttle: rm -rf sms-sent.
Headless chrome is used via selenium, this seems to make regular Chrome behave a bit strange at times.