konsulatet

Selenium script to scrape for Swedish consulate passport renewal appointments

Usage

1. Get a Sinch trial account, get a Sinch phone number & verify the phone number you want to send sms to
2. brew install maven (if you don’t have maven + java)
3. git clone [email protected]:danielnorberg/konsulatet.git
4. cd konsulatet
5. SINCH_PLAN_ID=badf00d SINCH_TOKEN=badf00d RECIPIENTS_NUMBERS=+12222222222,+13333333333 SENDER_NUMBER=+14444444444 ./run.sh
6. Verify that you get the hello world SMS on startup, otherwise something is wrong and you might not get any notifications for appointments.

• The SINCH_PLAN_ID, SINCH_TOKEN env vars should be set to your Sinch plan ID and auth token.
• SENDER_NUMBER should be your assigned Sinch phone number that will send the SMS.
• RECIPIENTS_NUMBERS Can be one or more comma separated numbers to send an SMS to. Note that the numbers must be verified in your Sinch account.

Note

• 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.