This is a rudimentary scraper for the NJ DMV to check when locations get full.
It writes data to a CSV - location, time it was detected to be full, and the date.
The CSV can be used to graph how busy a DMV location is over time. I made this to quickly see which DMV to go to.
This is designed to run as a scheduled job, as quickly as you want before you get IP banned.
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I am not responsible for anything anyone does with this. See
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The MVC does a horrible job of updating the site so expect the locations to have closed over an hour before getting marked as full. They seem to get pushed in batches, probably manually.
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To the best of my knowledge and research, this does not violate any ToS on the NJ state website. Don't prosecute me because you didn't think to provide a public API for this.
Requirements: Docker, Bash
Run app in docker:
make build
make run
This will output the CSV in the output folder
Run run.sh for a simple script that will poll every 30s
make setup
source .venv/bin/activate
python src/main.py
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Analyze how early in the day locations got full
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Which DMVs fill up the fastest, correlates to how busy they are relative to each other
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Which days are busiest