https://github.com/omar2535/icbc-web-booking-watcher
🕶⏲Watcher for ICBC Web booking
https://github.com/omar2535/icbc-web-booking-watcher
email-notifications icbc interval nodejs puppeteer scraping
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🕶⏲Watcher for ICBC Web booking
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/omar2535/icbc-web-booking-watcher
- Owner: omar2535
- License: mit
- Created: 2020-09-08T22:14:27.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-08-11T18:23:27.000Z (9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-10T20:57:16.217Z (about 2 months ago)
- Topics: email-notifications, icbc, interval, nodejs, puppeteer, scraping
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 214 KB
- Stars: 3
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: readme.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# ICBC Web Booking Availability Checker
This is a small program to check ICBC's available times based on their Qmatic web form [here](https://onlinebusiness.icbc.com/qmaticwebbooking/#/). The purpose this was created was due to the frustratingly limited capacity that ICBC has for bookings per day to a point that people have to constantly refresh their form to check for available dates.
## Set up
Setup of this package is relatively simple.
### Gmail Account (optional)
This tool can be used with a gmail account to send email notifications. To do this, 2FA must be disabled. Additionally, the account security must be lowered by removing this option:
### Puppeteer (required)
Make sure puppeteer is installed correctly by following google's guide [here](https://developers.google.com/web/tools/puppeteer/get-started)
### Package dependency install (required)
Install remaining dependencies:
```sh
npm install
```
In the `config/config.yml` section, the file shows what the config should look like. Additionally, if setting the email notification option to true, you must also configure `config/email_config.yml`
## Setting up config.yml
Most of the fields in the file are pretty self explanatory However, I will still make an effort to outline them.
**StepN:**
The `N` refers to which step of the form the selection is in. The example shown below is of `step1` of the ICBC form. Also notice that the options are indexed starting from 0 instead of 1.
**Interval:**
The interval in *milliseconds* represents the amount of delay between each check on the ICBC website. Since we don't want to be hammering their service, it's best to leave this to 5 minutes.
**StartDate / EndDate:**
The start date to be searched through in `YYYY-MM-DD` format
**ShouldSendEmail:**
true / false value as a string indicating whether to send an email or not
## Setting up email_config.yml
Move the email_config.template.yml to email_config.yml and fill in the required fields
## Usage
This program can be run in the background by simply running it with:
```sh
node app.js
```
## Suggestions
Feel free to let me know of any improvements you would like to see!