🇺🇸 Consular-Appointment-Scraper 🇺🇸

Reverse-engineering CheckVisaSlots

What? 👀

• Pro way to not waste your daily login and click quota on CGI Federal.
• Runs 24/7 without interference.
• Checks for available VISA consular interview slots in Chennai from S3-buckets used by https://checkvisaslots.com.
• Notifies on Telegram whenever changes are detected along with relevant screenshots (searches for 'Chennai' in images using Tesseract-OCR).

Why? 🤔

How? 😯

DevTools Networks tab + Python + Tesseract + 🧠 = 💣

Usage 👨‍💻

• Clone and create heroku app linked to this.
• Add apt buildpack (we need to install libgl1 to make cv2 work).
• heroku config:set TESSDATA_PREFIX=/app/.apt/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata
• Setup config vars of
  • API_KEY: From your https://checkvisaslots.com.
  • BOT_TOKEN: From BotFather in Telegram.
  • CHAT_ID: ID of group you want to run it in.
• Change the location (default Chennai) and checking interval (default 10 mins).

Some info on using the bot.

• Monitoring start immediately - runs once every 10 mins.
• Does not work in groups than the one you have authorized.
• /run command to manually run a check

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