DMV Bot

Forked from Stalk-the-DMV, which only supports querying available appointment date for driving test. This advanced version added features:

• Query both normal appointment(written test, replace driver license,...) and driving test
• Make appointment automatically
• Set desired time range for appointment
• Save confirm page as screenshot in local directory
• Send keepalive message to Slack channel
• Reschedule a new appointment

Installation and Usage

Grab your local copy.

git clone https://github.com/Pekdz/DMV-Appt-Bot.git

Linux only, only tested in Ubuntu. Recommended to create an Ubuntu x64 machine in AWS.

Install the dependencies.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xvfb xserver-xephyr libfontconfig

# Install pip first if you don't have
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
sudo python3 get-pip.py
# Then
sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt

cd ~
export PHANTOM_JS="phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64"
wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/$PHANTOM_JS.tar.bz2
sudo tar xvjf $PHANTOM_JS.tar.bz2
sudo mv $PHANTOM_JS /usr/local/share
sudo ln -sf /usr/local/share/$PHANTOM_JS/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin

There is different fetching frequency between daytime and nighttime, so you may need to correct the timezone on your machine.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Obtain a slack token. Then, create a config file - this should be kept hidden! In the current directory, enter the following:

echo "SLACK_TOKEN='your-token-here'" >> creds.py

Don't forget to replace the string above with your own slack token. When that is done, open settings.py and update it with your information.

SLACK_CHANNEL = 'bot'  # the slack channel which you want to send messages to
APPT_TYPE = 2  # 1 for general appointment(writen test, renew, replace license), 2 for driving test
REAPPT = True  # True for rescheduling a new appointment, False for first-time appointment
DRIVE_URL = 'https://www.dmv.ca.gov/wasapp/foa/clear.do?goTo=driveTest'  # driving test url
WRITEN_URL = 'https://www.dmv.ca.gov/wasapp/foa/clear.do?goTo=officeVisit&localeName=en'  # writen test url
TIMERANGE = 21  # maximum days from earliest day
EARLESTDAY = "July 18, 2018"  # desired earliest desired day
START_HOUR = 8  # desired earliest hour
END_HOUR = 16  # desired latest hour
DAY_PERIOD = 20  # num of seconds period for each query round at daytime
NIGHT_PERIOD = 150  # num of seconds period for each query round at nighttime
NOTIFICATION_TYPE = 1  # 1 for email, 2 for sms. notification actually doesn't work in dmv system
HEARTBEAT_PERIOD = 60  # num of minutes period for heartbeat message sent to slack
LOCATIONS = {  # the office ID obtained by inspecting the xpath
    'Redwood City': '548',
    'San Jose': '516',
    'Santa Clara': '632',
    'Las Gatos': '640',
}
PROFILE = {  # Your information
    'first_name': 'Winnie',
    'last_name': 'Xi',
    'tel_prefix': 'xxx',
    'tel_suffix1': 'xxx',
    'tel_suffix2': 'xxxx',
    'email': '[email protected]',
    ##### Following only required for driving test #####
    'mm': 'xx',
    'dd': 'xx',
    'yyyy': 'xxxx',
    'dl_number': 'XXXXXX'
}

Run the bot.

python3 main.py

Caveats

This is not a hack, all it does is automating an otherwise tedious process of page refreshing and manual monitoring.

Only used for personal non-commercial purpose.