zappingseb / mtwhitney

A tiny package to get Mt Whitney permits

Crawling Mt Whitney Permits

This repository enables to crawl the slots on Mount Whitney on its website at: https://www.recreation.gov/permits/233260/

It follows some steps:

• Crawl the website by selecting the route, number of people, going to month "October"
• Write the available first date into an output.txt file
• Send an email with python to myself

All steps should run at 12.00 and 00.00 automatically by a crontask

Prequisites

Two containers are needed for the automation task to work. It needs a docker selenium started by:

docker run -d -p 4445:4444 --name seleniumcontainer --net mynet selenium/standalone-chrome

The name seleniumcontainer is necessary for it to work.

The docker for this package is build by:

docker build --net mynet --name mtwhitney -f Dockerfile .

Running the script

docker run -it mtwhitney /bin/bash

inside the container run:

sudo Rscript /tmp/run_tests.R

disconnect by Crtl + p and Crtl + q