Luux / saxony-vaccination-date-autochecker

Periodically check for vaccination time slots in Saxony.

Saxony Vaccination Date Autochecker

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Deutsche Anleitung: https://github.com/Luux/saxony-vaccination-date-autochecker/blob/master/LIESMICH.md

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This tool periodically checks free vaccination dates of vaccination centers in Saxony by accessing the information available at https://www.countee.ch/app/de/counter/impfee/_iz_sachsen. If there are more vaccination dates available than at the last time checked, you'll get a notification.

This tool does NOT register you for an appointment. But you can let it run in the background and don't have to monitor the countee page by yourself all day.

Installation (Standalone)

1. Download the latest standalone release at https://github.com/Luux/saxony-vaccination-date-autochecker/releases
2. Either run it via command line (see options at the bottom of this README) or by double-clicking on a .bat starter

If you don't want to use the command line, you can use a .bat file to start the program. As examples, you can just double-click dresden.bat or leipzig.bat and you're ready to go (what the names mean should be self-explanatory).

If you want to check other vaccination centers, you can just modify a .bat file (right click -> edit) and specify the name of your vaccination center of choice as shown at https://www.countee.ch/app/de/counter/impfee/_iz_sachsen (for example "Annaberg IZ").

My Antivirus/Smart Screen complains, what should I do?

No worries, these are false positives. The .exe is build using pyinstaller, which just bundles the script from this repository along with all dependencies including the python runtime into a single executable. Executables build by pyinstaller being suspected by Windows SmartScreen or antivirus solutions is a recurring issue (see for example pyinstaller/pyinstaller#4852).

If this happens:

Right-click on the .bat of choice -> Properties -> Allow -> OK

You can also just run it from source as written below.

Installation (Source)

1. Install python - latest version is fine: https://www.python.org/

2. Make sure python is added to PATH

3. pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Start the script. Example usage: python saxony_vaccination_date_autochecker/autocheck_countee.py "Dresden IZ"

Options:

usage: autocheck_countee.exe [-h] [--intervall INTERVALL] [--wait WAIT]
                             vaccination_center
positional arguments:
  vaccination_center    The vaccination center name as displayed on countee.
                        Example: "Dresden IZ".

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --intervall INTERVALL
                        Check intervall in minutes (default: 10).
  --wait WAIT           Waiting time in seconds for the countee page to load
                        (default: 5).