mshodge / youshallnotpassport

This is the code-based behind the Twitter account @ukpassportcheck. Nothing is hidden. I code in the open. You can see all the code here and select Actions tab to see the GitHub Actions in progress.

youshallnotpassport

This is the code-based behind the Twitter account @ukpassportcheck. Nothing is hidden. I code in the open. You can see all the code here and select Actions tab to see the GitHub Actions in progress.

The code is split into two parts - both use the Python package tweepy to post to Twitter:

Status check

A simple requests script to check whether the following UK Passport services are available:

• Premium
• 1 week fast track

Appointments table check

Once a service goes online, the bot checks what appointments are available. For Fast Track, we use Ajax requests to pass information to the server (about Ajax requests). For Premium, we use a series of POST and GET requests. We used to use selenium but our new method is much faster and has fewer errors! Then bot keeps checking and posts again if more appointments are added on either service.

Using the code

Get

git clone https://github.com/mshodge/youshallnotpassport.git

Set

pip install -r requirements.txt

Go

Status check

python main.py

Appointments table check

Fast Track

python find_appointments_fast_track.py

Premium

python find_appointments_premium.py

Configuration

Twitter

To post to Twitter you will need elevated v1 access on the Twitter Developer site. Then create a file called twitter_credentials.py in /config/ with the following:

consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_token = ""
access_token_secret = ""

Proxy

Add proxy settings to a proxies.py file in /config/ if you require them.

Change the is_proxy to be True in main.py.