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 .

docker run -it mtwhitney /bin/bash

inside the container run:

sudo Rscript /tmp/run_tests.R

disconnect by Crtl + p and Crtl + q