/burgeramt-appointments-websockets

Fetch Bürgeramt appointments and broadcast them via websockets

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

Bürgeramt appointment finder

This server looks for Bürgeramt appointment every few seconds, and broadcasts the results via websockets. This is the code behind All About Berlin's Bürgeramt appointment finder

Setup

Standalone

  1. Set the required environment variables:

    export BOOKING_TOOL_EMAIL=your@email.com
export BOOKING_TOOL_ID=johnsmith-dev

  2. Run the appointment booking tool

    pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 appointments.py

The tool outputs the appointments it finds and the errors to the console, and broadcasts them with websockets.

Docker

A Dockerfile is supplied with the repository.

Notes

The polling rate is limited to 180 seconds (3 minutes), as required by the Berlin.de IKT-ZMS team (ikt-zms@seninnds.berlin.de).