lizzzcai / bbdc-booking-bot

Bot to check the available slots in BBDC, and send a notification to your phone.

BBDC-Booking-Bot

Program help to check the available slots in BBDC (Bukit Batok Driving Centre), and send notification to your phone by Telegram bot.

Note

• 2023 April: The program is not working with the new BBDC page (find details here)

Prerequisites

• Python3
• Docker (headless Chrome)
• Telegram Bot

Setup

Pull docker image of Chrome

$ docker pull selenium/standalone-chrome:94.0

Clone the repo

$ git clone https://github.com/lizzzcai/bbdc-booking-bot.git
$ cd bbdc-booking-bot

Create virtual environment and source the environment

# create virtual environment
$ python3 -m venv env
# activate the environment
$ source env/bin/activate

Install dependencies

$ pip install -r requirement.txt

Create your telegram bot

Follow this post to create your telegram bot

Fill in your information

please fill in the followings in the config.yaml

• Interval of checking the slots (example: every 5 mins)
• BBDC username and password
• Your wanted sessions
• Telegram Bot token and chat_id

Run the program

Launch Chrome container

$ docker run --rm -d -p 4444:4444 --shm-size=2g selenium/standalone-chrome:94.0

Run the program

$ python3 main.py

Reference

• https://github.com/rohit0718/BBDC-Bot
• https://github.com/weimingwill/bbdc-booking
• https://core.telegram.org/bots
• https://dev.to/rizkyrajitha/get-notifications-with-telegram-bot-537l