For some reasons, Im unable to generate a Code using the --code method. I guess the error is some kind of rate limiting.

I get two kinds of errors: Either I get ratelimited, have to wait some time and then get this response:

An error occurred requesting code from server; response [200]

Or I am not forced to wait some time, but then I instantly get

An error occurred requesting code from server; response [429]

No matter, which error occurs, this is always the last line in the log:

[INFO] <impf.api.api.py:43> {}

So I dont seem to get any response at all.

As a User-Agent, I used the default one and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36

I tried it with 2 different Phonenumbers and 3 different Emails, so I dont think its because of that. The locations I tried are 88444 Ummendorf, 88212 Ravensburg and 89073 Ulm

I also tried to wait 30 Minutes after some tries and 3 different IPs, and also from my server, nothing worked.

Also I tried it in Docker and natively on Windows, both time the same error

2021-05-20 18:57:06,128 - [INFO] <impf.browser.browser.py:140>  89073: Navigating to ImpfterminService
2021-05-20 18:57:08,545 - [INFO] <impf.browser.browser.py:153>  89073: Selected Bundesland: Baden-Württemberg           
2021-05-20 18:57:08,760 - [INFO] <impf.browser.browser.py:161>  89073: Selected Impfzentrum: 89073 Ulm, Zentrales Impfzentrum Ulm
2021-05-20 18:57:27,263 - [INFO] <impf.api.api.py:33>  API: Attempting to get Vermittlungscode from server              
2021-05-20 18:57:30,719 - [ERROR] <impf.api.api.py:44>  API: An error occurred requesting code from server; status code [429]                                                                                                                   
2021-05-20 18:57:30,720 - [INFO] <impf.api.api.py:45>  API: Response: {}

Edit: I tried to put the steps done in the API.py into a standalone script, and here I constistently get Statuscode 200, but no returned data

Getting an Appointment 101

The experience collected is only for BaWü, but should apply anywhere else too.

Overview

Getting appointments is just a matter of the amount of Centers you're checking. As of writing this on June 8th, I've been getting 1-3 appointment offers a day, though I have gone without getting any appointments for 2-3 days too – it's just part of the process.

If you're only checking one center over and over again, your chances of getting an appointment are significantly lower. Center capacities vary from their size and overall load – e.g. getting an appointment at Robert Bosch Krankenhaus is like catching an extremely rare Pokémon; I've only seen it give out appointments twice over the period of 4 weeks.

When new appointments are added by a center, you're playing Roulette against everyone else currently checking the center for appointments,– so it's just a matter of improving your chances.

Improving Your Chances

aka Q: I have been searching for 2-85430 days 24/7, but didn't find anything yet! oh my god pls does this even work

If you're only searching one center your chances of getting an appointment are obviously lower. It will definitely take some time due to the reasons mentioned initially.

Improving your chances means turning on parallel searching. Setting CONCURRENT_ENABLED = True enables you to search multiple centers at the same time, thus increasing your chances immensely. Ideally, search with six instances / for six centers concurrently. But why six?

As mentioned in the README.md centers are assigned to specific servers, indicated by the number at the start of the URL. It's best to spread out and choose ONE center on each server to search on. Checking more on the same server doesn't yield any benefit afaik

Just choose 4-6 centers on different servers, get Vermittlungscodes (see below), enter them in your settings.py and start searching. Depending on how many centers you have entered you should set your CONCURRENT_WORKERS to the same values as the centers you added – you might have to decrease it depending on how potent your PC is. And then just be patient; appointments will come.

If your PC cannot handle multiple browsers at the same time at least do not jump around centers while searching. It's usually desirable to keep on checking the same center over and over again.

This is the way I run my setup – it's just an old laptop that I turn on in the morning, and let run throughout the day – imo the smallest Vaccination Center in Stuttgart.

Getting Vermittlungscodes

Getting Vermittlungscodes via the Browser should be avoided at all costs.

aka Q: I'm not getting any Vermittlungscodes! The instant Code Generation is broken! I tried so many times, never works

As long as the Instant Vermittlungscode bullet point is not crossed out on the main page (README.md), it still works. Simply try again in an hour, two, ten, or tomorrow. Just. Keep. On. Trying.

It's unclear whether or not your cookies need a certain age before the server will accept your request; just something to keep in mind. That's why the --surf switch was added, but should also be a-ok to just let the bot run for 2-4 hours before.

And while you're at it, as soon as you can generate one, generate a bunch! One for each of the six centers. One doesn't work? Doesn't matter. Just move on to the next one and try again later.

Disclaimer

Please note: All of this is based on my own experiences – your mileage may vary. A lot of things are unknown about the platform and simply assumptions based on trial-and-error and my previous technical experience. If anything is wrong, please feel free to discuss it, but understand that I cannot get back to each and every one individually. Especially non-elaborated questions, clearly showing a lack of having read this thoroughly or lack of self-initiative, will be ignored.

• Do not use Docker primarily – searching for appointments works, but you have to help Docker instances to get to the appointment searching page manually
• Do not use a Raspberry Pi – same as above
• No new appointments are added on Sunday
• Do not stress the Impfterminservice API. Lowering your waiting limits and then coming here to cry about your fate of not finding any appointments, giving other people questionable advice is not the spirit. Behave like a reasonable person.
• Searching between 2400-0900 is usually not the game-changer. It's also unknown if searching excessively could flag your Vermittlungscode as being a bot – so better safe than sorry.
• If you're not getting any appointments (highly doubt it if you followed this), then – hey, how about changing one of the centers? How about trying with a different Vermittlungscode? Or changing the user agent? Increasing the waiting times? etc etc
• Simply try things. Ask for advice, but not after 5 seconds. Read this article again. This is the pinnacle of everything you need to know for getting an appointment.

Describe the issue After the latest maintenance window on the impfterminservice server, when trying to obtain a code using /code, I get an error "Geburtsdatum ungueltig oder in der Zukunft". It looks like the api changed a little bit, since there is no option to actually enter a birth date.

Versions latest

Log files

2021-06-03 21:12:26,461 - [INFO] impf.api.api.py:168 API: Attempting to get Vermittlungscode from server 2021-06-03 21:12:26,701 - [WARNING] impf.api.api.py:57 API: Endpoint returned Error: Geburtsdatum ungueltig oder in der Zukunft 2021-06-03 21:12:26,701 - [INFO] impf.api.api.py:58 API: Cookies probably expired – raising AdvancedSessionCache 2021-06-03 21:12:26,702 - [WARNING] impf.api.decorators.py:133 API: Underlying service layer indicating invalid session for <generate_vermittlungscode> – refreshing all cookies and retrying 2021-06-03 21:12:28,077 - [INFO] impf.browser.browser.py:169 76137: Navigating to ImpfterminService 2021-06-03 21:12:31,724 - [INFO] impf.browser.browser.py:182 76137: Selected Bundesland: Baden-Württemberg 2021-06-03 21:12:31,858 - [INFO] impf.browser.browser.py:190 76137: Selected Impfzentrum: 76137 Karlsruhe, Kreisimpfzentrum Schwarzwaldhalle Karlsruhe 2021-06-03 21:12:49,104 - [INFO] impf.api.api.py:168 API: Attempting to get Vermittlungscode from server Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Florian\impfung\impf-botpy\impf\decorators.py", line 131, in func x = f(self, *args, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\Florian\impfung\impf-botpy\impf\api.py", line 177, in generate_vermittlungscode r = self.xs.post(f'{self.host}/rest/smspin/anforderung', json=data) File "C:\Users\Florian\impfung\impf-botpy\impf\decorators.py", line 119, in api_response x = self._handle_error(response.status_code, response.json()) File "C:\Users\Florian\impfung\impf-botpy\impf\api.py", line 59, in _handle_error raise AdvancedSessionCache(code, message) kunft'}

Thanks.

…s with continuing broken workflows

This morning I had an issue that recovering from shadow ban failed and then the (now broken) workflow tried to continue resulting in a endless loop of failure. This change will go back to the main loop and just starts from anew.

Hello I have in cd line this error C:\Users\user>python3 main.pypip3 install -r requirements.txt --user Python was not found; run without arguments to install from the Microsoft Store, or disable this shortcut from Settings > Manage App Execution Aliases.

I follow this instructions You did not install Python properly. Either reinstall, following the steps or delete the python.exe and python3.exe in %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\WindowsApps

BUT I can't delete python.exe & python3.exe in %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\WindowsApps I add the windows message in attachement.

I running win10 as adminstrator I reinstall Python with the link provide in this page

Any advise ?

Thanks a lot

Hallo,

ich habe Probleme den Bot zum laufen zu bringen. Bisher habe ich mich an der Anleitung für Dummies entlanggehangelt. Bei der Eingabe des commands: 'pip3 install -r requirements.txt --user' kommt es jedoch zu einer Fehlermeldung:

Habe zu Fehlerbehandlung folgendes probiert: -löschen der Zeilen cryptography + zulip im file requirements.txt -Python neu installieren mit den beschriebenen customized Einstellungen -Update wie in der Fehlermeldung empfohlen mit 'python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip' :

-installieren von 'pip install chardet' -hinzufügen des Pfads 'C:\Users---\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\Scripts' zu der Systemvariablen 'Path'

Die jetzige Fehlermeldung bei der Eingabe von 'pip3 install -r requirements.txt --user' ist wie folgt:

C:\Users---\Desktop\Impfbot\impf-botpy-main>pip3 install -r requirements.txt --user Collecting certifi==2020.12.5 Using cached certifi-2020.12.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl (147 kB) Collecting cffi==1.14.5 Using cached cffi-1.14.5-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl (179 kB) ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement chardet==4.0.0´ (from versions: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.1, 2.1.1, 2.2.1, 2.3.0, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 4.0.0) ERROR: No matching distribution found for chardet==4.0.0´

Mein Rechner läuft mit Windows 10, die Version des Bots ist denk ich die neueste (habe ihn vor 2-3 h runtergeladen).

Vielen Dank schonmal.

LG

Been addressing it here and there, but wanted to centrally document the current state and issues when using Docker environments.

The main issue being that the bot is reliably flagged by ImpfterminService when running in Docker containers. It's basically unusable from my experience, as it's stuck with getting 429s thrown at it. E.g. even after multiple hours it cannot enter the Vermittlungscode successfully – when reloading the page in the container and inputting it manually, it works first try. After that it can monitor for new appointments flawlessly – even though I haven't been able to get a successful alert from it yet.

Maybe some mouse wiggles can fix it. I'm a bit torn apart tho. While I want to solve it on a technical level, I think Docker containers only benefit a very small margin of people and it's likely an abuse-factor anyways.

Chromedriver can be placed in the same directory as the main.py Unexperienced users will be more comfortable putting an unknow file somwhere in their downloads-folder instead of System32 or messing with %PATH%

Hallo,

beim Versuch, einen freien Impftermin ueber Telegram zu buchen, reagierte der Bot (Version 0.43b) mit einer Exception der Form:

impf-botpy | 2021-05-28 20:53:44,382 - [INFO] impf.alert.alert.py:41 Read APPOINTMENT_SLOT Code from Telegram: 2 impf-botpy | 2021-05-28 20:53:44,382 - [WARNING] impf.browser.browser.py:298 xxxxx: Received Appointment indicator from backend: 2 - booking now... impf-botpy | 2021-05-28 20:53:44,383 - [INFO] impf.api.api.py:215 API: Booking appointment for xxxxx impf-botpy | 2021-05-28 20:53:44,531 - [ERROR] impf.browser.browser.py:276 xxxxx: Unexpected exception occurred trying to book appointments remotely! impf-botpy | Traceback (most recent call last): impf-botpy | File "/app/impf/browser.py", line 274, in alert_appointment impf-botpy | self.remote_booking() impf-botpy | File "/app/impf/browser.py", line 299, in remote_booking impf-botpy | if api.book_appointment(appointments, int(_code)): impf-botpy | File "/app/impf/decorators.py", line 119, in func impf-botpy | x = f(self, *args, **kwargs) impf-botpy | File "/app/impf/api.py", line 234, in book_appointment impf-botpy | r = self.xs.post(f'{self.host}/rest/buchung', json=data) impf-botpy | File "/app/impf/decorators.py", line 107, in api_response impf-botpy | x = self._handle_error(response.status_code, response.json()) impf-botpy | File "/app/impf/api.py", line 54, in _handle_error impf-botpy | if 'Anfragelimit erreicht' in message.get('error'): impf-botpy | TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable impf-botpy | 2021-05-28 20:53:44,532 - [INFO] impf.alert.alert.py:63 Sending alert "Appointment could not be booked – please continue manually!" impf-botpy | 2021-05-28 21:03:48,773 - [WARNING] impf.browser.decorators.py:81 xxxxx: Exiting...

Davor gab es bereits eine Exception bei der Alarmierung:

2021-05-28 20:52:27,941 - [ERROR] impf.alert.alert.py:56 An unexpected exception occurred while reading alerts! Please report this issue to https://github.com/alfonsrv/impf-botpy/issues impf-botpy | Traceback (most recent call last): impf-botpy | File "/app/impf/alert.py", line 54, in read_backend impf-botpy | code = _read_backend(telegram_read, match_func) or code impf-botpy | File "/app/impf/alert.py", line 39, in _read_backend impf-botpy | code = backend_func(match_func) impf-botpy | File "/app/impf/alert.py", line 124, in telegram_read impf-botpy | if match_func(_message.get('text')) and time() - _message.get('date') <= 120: impf-botpy | File "/app/impf/alert.py", line 32, in appointment_slot impf-botpy | m = APPT_RE.search(string.strip()) impf-botpy | AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strip'

Beim Versuch, den Termin dann manuell zu buchen, wurde er zwar noch angezeigt, konnte aber nicht mehr gebucht werden, obwohl die 10 Minuten noch nicht abgelaufen waren.

Als Feedback.

Regards,

Hi, first of all thanks for the program. I completed the setup and then ran the program and it's running for a while now. I realised that I'm getting 429- shadow bans all the time. Is there anything that I can do? Don't know if it's the right log file but here it is: bot.log

Switch to chrome-stable and make chromedriver dynamic to installed chrome-version. This solves shadow-bans for me on docker and should be future-proof, becuase the correct chrome-driver is evaluated by installed google-chrome.

I have noticed that the instructions for setting up all the dependencies are pretty lengthy. I am a big fan of Vagrant and have used it in many projects to ease the setup. Hope this would be useful for impf-botpy.

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