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.

1. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/ranjan-mohanty/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

** Please refer to the screenshot for more details regarding the inputs.

• 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 geckodriver

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/geckodriver