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This very basic script can be used to automate COVID-19 vaccination slot booking on India's Co-WIN Platform.
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Slot openings not being notified properly #102

Closed jivjen closed 3 years ago

jivjen commented 3 years ago

I have been checking the telegram channel and saw that there were around 200-300 slots that got opened today whereas my script kept running and never detected those openings. Any idea what the issue might be?

ujaiswal commented 3 years ago

+1 Was running the script. Got the telegram notification but the script did not detect the new slot opening.

bombardier-gif commented 3 years ago

Yes I also observed it. I dont know what is the rootcause. Whether it is booked already by bots or what.

xxxAng commented 3 years ago

This is because of non real time data iguess, sometimes availability api gives cached or old data.

yashk2103 commented 3 years ago

@xxxAng Can we use protected APIs to work around that? I had seen another script based on C# which has integrated the protected APIs. Maybe it could help us?

jivjen commented 3 years ago

Are we using the same APIs which are being used by these telegram channels? If not we can try implementing them here to get more accurate and real time data right?

xxxAng commented 3 years ago

Telegram also misses slots I saw, they dont give update for small no of slots being opened. They only update about big no of slots being opened. So it might be telegram was lucky to catch it that time.

yashk2103 commented 3 years ago

@jivjen Yes, exactly. I think pallupz the original creator of the script used public APIs because back then they worked fine and a lot of people didn't know about bots going on. But I think we should use the protected APIs as they seem to be reflecting real time data.

P.S: Pls everyone let me know about your opinion and if it's doable. I have an idea but unfortunately I'm not a very techie guy and don't know coding much. Otherwise would have made a PR. If it's doable please someone volunteer so everyone can benefit

yashk2103 commented 3 years ago

@xxxAng but I had seen this issue day before yesterday also. The bot often misses out on various centres and slots. Also, the available centres which it shows is often wrong when compared to CoWIN website

xxxAng commented 3 years ago

@yashk2103 thats what you get when we use public api which govt. made limited on 5th may. Only option i see now,

  1. Have a UI automation bot
  2. Or buy private api may be Telegram/Healthify using those only.
bombardier-gif commented 3 years ago

I am closing this issue as its a known issue. Please feel free to continue your chat on this

yashk2103 commented 3 years ago

@xxxAng @bombardier-gif what all things would we need to implement private api?

RonakTotla commented 3 years ago

I wouldn't worry too much about a couple of times the script missing out to detect slots. Have heard of other similar scripts failing because of cached data. Yes there are ways around but this to me is good enough.

yashk2103 commented 3 years ago

If you say so, it's just that I have gotten too desperate to get the damn vaccine. That's why I'm trying to see and eliminate anything that would slow us down. I guess I should rest and get my mind off of this

GOODBOIXD commented 3 years ago

What's the process for getting authorization for the protected APIs? Does someone know? If its not too much of a hassle, I think this can be implemented as well to monitor real time data. Because cached data from the public api definitely bottlenecks this automation project.

xxxAng commented 3 years ago

You got to have the protected api first.. I dont have the apis, if we get the api first then would have to think of how to bypass their security.

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 10:33 PM Ujjal @.***> wrote:

What's the process for getting authorization for the protected APIs? Does someone know? If its not too much of a hassle, I think this can be implemented as well to monitor real time data. Because cached data from the public api definitely bottlenecks this automation project.

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yashk2103 commented 3 years ago

I have the api links. I'll put them tomorrow on this discussion.

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xxxAng commented 3 years ago

Ok good to know. Share it whenever you feel, we can try to break the security.

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 11:43 PM yashk2103 @.***> wrote:

I have the api links. I'll put them tomorrow on this discussion.

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yashk2103 commented 3 years ago

@xxxAng @bombardier-gif
Please check this out: https://apisetu.gov.in/public/marketplace/api/cowin/cowin-protected-v2#/

Majority of API links I have is from here. Also, I had read there is some "secret" key that is asked in protected APIs to encode information going from our side? Starts from U2FsdGVkX1/K10bXSsDZI+l05XTwv2Hbo7+jbsk7AY**DnJPuwHUKOC5A==".

Please also check: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/9564387/TzRPip7u#intro

Please let me know if any of this helps. If you need the "secret" key then also let me know.

xxxAng commented 3 years ago

Yashk if these are protected api URL Bombardier used the right one, See the util file, BOOKING_URL = "https://cdn-api.co-vin.in/api/v2/appointment/schedule" BENEFICIARIES_URL = " https://cdn-api.co-vin.in/api/v2/appointment/beneficiaries" CALENDAR_URL_DISTRICT = " https://cdn-api.co-vin.in/api/v2/appointment/sessions/calendarByDistrict?district_id={0}&date={1} " CALENDAR_URL_PINCODE = " https://cdn-api.co-vin.in/api/v2/appointment/sessions/calendarByPin?pincode={0}&date={1} " CAPTCHA_URL = "https://cdn-api.co-vin.in/api/v2/auth/getRecaptcha" OTP_PUBLIC_URL = "https://cdn-api.co-vin.in/api/v2/auth/public/generateOTP" OTP_PRO_URL = "https://cdn-api.co-vin.in/api/v2/auth/generateMobileOTP"

I thought they had some secret API links for these which they are using only for COWIN and AROGYA SETU..

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 3:55 PM yashk2103 @.***> wrote:

@xxxAng https://github.com/xxxAng @bombardier-gif https://github.com/bombardier-gif Please check this out: https://apisetu.gov.in/public/marketplace/api/cowin/cowin-protected-v2#/

Majority of API links I have is from here. Also, I had read there is some "secret" key that is asked in protected APIs to encode information going from our side? Starts from U2FsdGVkX1/K10bXSsDZI+l05XTwv2Hbo7+jbsk7AY**DnJPuwHUKOC5A==".

Please also check: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/9564387/TzRPip7u#intro

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yashk2103 commented 3 years ago

I think I had read somewhere that the calendar URLs often return stale data and that Find by URLs are better at responding. Because the Find by urls only search for today/tomorrow and Calendar urls search for 7 days worth of data. Could this be a factor in play?

xxxAng commented 3 years ago

What do you mean by find by URL ? What API you are referring to instead of CalendarByState or CalendarByPin ?

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 4:29 PM yashk2103 @.***> wrote:

I think I had read somewhere that the calendar URLs often return stale data and that Find by URLs are better at responding. Because the Find by urls only search for today/tomorrow and Calendar urls search for 7 days worth of data. Could this be a factor in play?

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