I recently needed to make an appointment at a DMV, and was quickly frustrated by the DMV website and lack of appointment availability.

So I wrote a program which scans for appointments automatically every five minutes, and notifies me when there are appointments available and at what times.

This allowed me to just wait until a great appointment became available ( because someone cancelled, or failed to confirm ), and then snatch that up immediately. Within 24 hours of starting the script, I got an appointment that was only 9 miles away from me, for a date 3 days away, and at a time that wasn't inconvenient. Was so much less work than the collosal amount of effort it would have been to check the page often enough to notice that. I was in and out of the DMV in 20 minutes day of.

The program just runs in the background and goes to the DMV website, extracts available appointments, and then sends them to me via discord.

I published all the code here, along with instructions on how to run it: https://github.com/tmcelroy2202/NC-DMV-Scraper

Hope this can help any of you as it has helped me!

Let me know if you have any questions, concerns, or need any help.