dmv.py

import datetime
import random
import time
import requests
import bs4

DATE = "Wed, 3 Apr 2019"
TIME = "0900"
COOKIE = """
<your cookie here>
"""

def randsleep():
    while True:
        wait = random.gauss(300, 120)
        if 60 < wait < 600:
            break
    time.sleep(wait)


def firstappt():
    resp = requests.post(
        url="https://www.dmv.ca.gov/wasapp/foa/findDriveTest.do",
        headers={
            "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0",
            "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8",
            "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
            "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
            "Referer": "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/wasapp/foa/findDriveTest.do",
            "Cookie": COOKIE.strip(),
        },
        data={
            "formattedRequestedDate": DATE,
            "requestedTime": TIME,
            "checkAvail": "Check+for+Availability",
        },
    )
    
    bs = bs4.BeautifulSoup(resp.text, "lxml")
    form = bs.find(id="ApptForm")
    appt = form.find(attrs={"data-title": "Appointment"})
    lines = list(filter(None, map(str.strip, appt.text.splitlines())))
    if len(lines) == 2:
        return datetime.datetime.strptime(lines[1], "%A, %B %d, %Y at %I:%M %p")
    else:
        return None


while True:
    appt = firstappt()
    print(appt)
    randsleep()