Quick Doctolib medical appointment bot to check availability
Nov 1 2021 - 1 min read
If you don’t find any medical appointment or COVID-19 vaccination center slots, you can use the APIs of website, but it can take time to properly you API call.
You can use the Copy as cURL function from your Google Chrome browser like this:
- Go with your Google Chrome browser to the website https://www.doctolib.fr
- Pick one Doctolib vaccination center, we are taking one center in Paris 19: https://www.doctolib.fr/vaccination-covid-19/paris/centre-de-vaccination-paris-19eme
- Search for one slot.
- Right-click and launch the
Inspectwindows - Go to the
Networktab - Click on
Copy as cURLtheavailabilities.jsonrequest
You can now paste this cURL URL in one simple bash script
#!/bin/bash
CHECK_RESULT=$(curl 'https://www.doctolib.fr/availabilities.json?start_date=2021-11-01&visit_motive_ids=2541699&agenda_ids=442222-404407-233765-242241-408406&insurance_sector=public&practice_ids=163800&limit=3'\
-H 'sec-ch-ua: "Google Chrome";v="95", "Chromium";v="95", ";Not A Brand";v="99"' \
-H 'accept: application/json' \
-H 'Referer: https://www.doctolib.fr/vaccination-covid-19/paris/centre-de-vaccination-paris-19eme' \
-H 'sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0' \
-H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.90 Safari/537.36' \
-H 'content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8' \
--compressed)
if echo $CHECK_RESULT | grep -E --quiet "no_availabilities.*831"; then
echo "`date +%Y/%m/%d_%H:%M:%S`:: No availabilities"
else
echo "`date +%Y/%m/%d_%H:%M:%S`:: CHANGE"
echo "Free vaccination slot in Paris 19eme" | mailx -r [email protected] -s "Doctolib Paris 19eme change" [email protected]
fi
If you program this script with a simple crontab, you will receive an email as soon as a slot becomes available.