Script to book an appointment with CA DMV if a spot opens before your target date

dmv_appointment_booking.py

import mechanize
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from datetime import datetime

TGT_DATE = 'MONTH DAY, YEAR' #i.e. 'September 30, 2014'
OFFICE_ID = '503' # officeid for SF DMV. See HTML code for other office ids
NUMBERITEMS = 'Num' # number of tasks for dmv; should be between 1-3
FIRSTNAME = 'FIRST_NAME'
LASTNAME = 'LAST_NAME'
# Number looks like (TELAREA) TELPREFIX-TELSUFFIX
TELAREA = '111'
TELPREFIX = '111'
TELSUFFIX = '1111'

form_url = 'https://www.dmv.ca.gov/foa/clear.do?goTo=officeVisit&localeName=en'
tgt_date = datetime.strptime(TGT_DATE,'%B %d, %Y')

# Browser
br = mechanize.Browser()
br.open(form_url)
br.select_form(name="ApptForm")
br['officeId']=[OFFICE_ID]
br['numberItems']=[NUMBERITEMS]
# br['taskDL']=['true'] # un-comment if it's an appt related to a license
# br['taskVR']=['true'] # un-comment if it's an appt related to a vehicle
br['firstName'] = FIRSTNAME
br['lastName'] = LASTNAME
br['telArea'] = TELAREA
br['telPrefix'] = TELPREFIX
br['telSuffix'] = TELSUFFIX

result = br.submit()
result_html =  br.response().read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(result_html)
results = soup.findAll('p',class_="alert")

for result in results:
    if ('2013' in result.get_text()) or ('2014' in result.get_text()):
      
        appt_text = result.get_text()
        print "Earliest Appointment found is %s" %(appt_text)
        appt_date = datetime.strptime(appt_text,'%A, %B %d, %Y at %I:%M %p')

        if appt_date <= tgt_date:
            print "Congratulations! You've found a date earlier than your target. Scheduling the appointment..."
            br.select_form(nr=4)
            br.submit()

            print "Confirming the appointment..."
            br.select_form(nr=4)
            br.submit()

            br.select_form(nr=3)
            print br #print out relevant info related to the appointment
            return

        else:
            print "Sorry there is no appointment available before your target: %s" %(TGT_DATE)
            return

This is awesome .. just what i was looking for .. will try to add some notification functionality so I can sun it on a schedule :)

this is awesome!

Thanks!

Saikatbhadra, have you ever made this script for the actual road test? I'm trying to get mine brought back earlier and found this and was intrigued... but I'm a SUPER newbie at this. Thanks.

Hello saikatbhadra. I'm also a newbie myself. Can you kindly update the script for 2015 or will this work as is? Thanks in advance.

Hello, Saikatbhadra. Thanks for you awesome script! I based off your script for DMV behind the wheel appointment. I was able to get it a couple weeks earlier than expected. I made a while loop to retrieve every two minutes and I also added a text.php to send a text message to me when it is confirmed

This unfortunately doesn't work anymore.