Hi there, I’m Alex, and as I was finishing Ryan’s scraping course, I saw that a friend had a hard time getting an appointment on a specific date range on a South Korean government website.

I had just learned about Watir Special Keys, and thought it was the perfect opportunity to practice what I had learned in the course!

My goal was to build a small bot that would:

• Help my friend secure his appointment quickly without efforts
• Book an appointment before the August 23rd (the bot was created on July 10th)
  • If no suitable appointment is available, refresh the page and restart the process
• Once the appointment booked, complete the form that appears with his personal information
• Play a sound on the computer so he knows the bot got him an appointment and so he can finish the last part himself, which had a captcha that Watir couldn’t get past.

So I built a bot that does all of this!

You can see it in action here:

[Sadly here, only dates in September were available so it just refreshed again and again, but it ended up working for my friend, and he was alerted by this sound!](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/d885c576-bdb9-4ac6-8bb9-795a8551b1bf/CleanShot_2022-07-11_at_23.17.25.mp4)

Sadly here, only dates in September were available so it just refreshed again and again, but it ended up working for my friend, and he was alerted by this sound!

I was super happy that I could build something useful in a few hours, and I also hope it maybe gave you some ideas of stuff to build!

Here are the contents of the bot for those who are curious and/or want to try it for themselves:

require "watir"
require "nokogiri"
require "open-uri"

class Scraper
    attr_accessor :browser

    def initialize
        Watir.default_timeout = 5 # => gem default is 30
        @browser = Watir::Browser.new(:chrome) # => Open Browser
    end

    def call # => Do the initial process one time, which is a bit longer
        browser.goto("<https://consulat.gouv.fr/ambassade-de-france-a-seoul/rendez-vous?name=Visa%20Long%20s%C3%A9jour%20%C3%A9tudiant%20%2F%20Long%20stay%20student%20visa>")
        sleep(2.5)
        browser.button(class: "fr-btn--primary").click
        sleep(1)
        browser.button(class: "fr-btn--primary").click
        sleep(1)
        browser.label(class: "custom-control-label").click
        browser.button(class: "fr-btn--primary").click
        sleep(1)
        start_robot
    end

    def start_robot # => Starts the program, and lets me read errors while programming the bot
        begin
            is_date_good
        rescue => e
            puts "Error: #{e.message}"
        end
    end

    def is_date_good # => When on the selection page, only chooses dates that are in 
        sleep(1.5)
        is_a_date_available
        first_date = browser.div(class: "date-active").text
        if first_date.include?("Juillet")
            puts "Appointment available in July!!"
            choose_time
            notify_me
            complete_info
        elsif first_date.include?("Août") and (first_date.match(/\\d/).to_s.to_i < 23) # => Here I used 
            choose_time
            notify_me
            complete_info
            puts "Appointment available in August before the 23rd!"
        else
            restart_process
        end
    end

    def is_a_date_available # => Checks if any time slot is available, if yes, continue script, if no, refresh page
        if browser.divs(class: "schedule-time-text-container").first.exists?
        puts "a date is available"
        else
        restart_process
        end
    end

    def choose_time # => Select the first time slot available and validate it
        browser.divs(class: "schedule-time-text-container").first.click
        browser.button(class: "fr-btn--primary").click
    end

    def complete_info # => Completes the personal information form with Watir
        browser.input(id: "lastname").send_keys ["First_Name"]
        sleep(0.5)
        browser.input(id: "firstname").send_keys ["Last_Name"]
        sleep(0.5)
        browser.input(id: "email").send_keys ["[email protected]"]
        sleep(0.5)
        browser.input(id: "phone").send_keys ["00000"]
        sleep(0.5)
        browser.input(id: "birthdate").send_keys ["01012000"]
        sleep(0.5)
        browser.inputs(class: "form-control")[5].send_keys ["01012000"]
        sleep(0.5)
        browser.inputs(class: "form-control")[6].send_keys ["Nationality"]
        sleep(0.5)
        browser.inputs(class: "form-control")[7].send_keys ["PasseportNB"]
        sleep(600) # Wait 10 Min

    end

    def notify_me # => Notify with a sound, and goes back to the page with all the information completed
        sleep(2)
        puts "You got an appointment 🎉"
        browser.execute_script('window.open("<https://assets.mixkit.co/sfx/preview/mixkit-video-game-win-2016.mp3>")')
        browser.switch_window
        sleep(2)
        browser.switch_window
    end

    def restart_process # => Refreshes the page and starts the bot again
        browser.goto("<https://consulat.gouv.fr/ambassade-de-france-a-seoul/rendez-vous?name=Visa%20Long%20s%C3%A9jour%20%C3%A9tudiant%20%2F%20Long%20stay%20student%20visa>")
        sleep(0.5)
        browser.button(class: "fr-btn--primary").click
        sleep(0.5)
        browser.buttons(class: "btn-md")[1].click
        sleep(0.5)
        browser.button(class: "fr-btn--primary").click
        sleep(0.5)
        start_robot
    end
end

scraper = Scraper.new
scraper.call