VFS Germany Appointment Bot

A script to check the appointment slots.

By default, it runs every 2 minutes and check for visa slots at VFS website and notifies the user by SMS and call
The interval can be changed in the config.

How to use

1. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/dsarychev/vfs-appointment-bot.git
   
2. Move into the repo: cd vfs_appointment_bot
   
3. Update the config file (config/config.ini) with VFS and Twilio credentials
4. Create a new virtual environment: python3 -m venv venv
   
5. Activate the environment (might differ a bit for windows and MacOS): source venv/bin/activate
   
6. Install the dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
   
7. Run the script:

python vfs_appointment_bot/vfs_appointment_bot.py '<vfs_centre>' '<visa_category>' '<visa_subcategory>'

OR

python vfs_appointment_bot/vfs_appointment_bot.py

It will take the values as input from the user

Dependency

• Create an account on Twilio to get text and call alerts. Sign up here for a trial account to get credits upto worth $10.
• Install geekodriver

How to install geekodriver

Run these the commands:

wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.18.0/geckodriver-v0.18.0-linux64.tar.gz

(You can find the download URL to the latest release of geckodriver on Github.)

Extract the file with

tar -xvzf geckodriver*

Make it executable (note this shouldn't be necessary, unless the unzipped file doesn't have the execute bits set):

chmod +x geckodriver

Add the driver to your PATH in ~/.bashrc so other tools can find it:

export PATH=$PATH:/path-to-extracted-file/geckodrive