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How can slots get booked within 1-2 minutes? #153

Open rudrasura opened 3 years ago

rudrasura commented 3 years ago

Trying to book slot since 4 days. And it has been hell. If a slot Opens at 6:00 AM with 300 available capacity, how can this be booked within 1-2 minutes? There is captcha protection while booking the slot, OTP validation required for AUTH token validation. Not sure whether it is humanely possible to login at 6:00 AM and get you slot booked before 6:01 AM!? Tried to book a slot, somehow went till Booking slot. But Confirmation didn't happen!

Please look into this. I think probably there is some backdoor some people are exploiting!

vikas-sawant-rwaltz commented 3 years ago

@developers, Is there any kind of bot you guys have fit? how it possible to book 300,400 or 500 slots within 1-2 min, even there is a reCaptcha thing. Something is happening wrong please look into this

SantoshDMore commented 3 years ago

Exactly how is it possible that with captcha protection OTP validation...????????? And sometimes the slots turn green after sometime ?!

darshani28 commented 3 years ago

@rudrasura Do slots open only for the same day, or for future dates too?

kirpalricky commented 3 years ago

+1 .. Saw similar issue myself. Something is fishy

rudrasura commented 3 years ago

@rudrasura Do slots open only for the same day, or for future dates too?

No Slots open for next day only. Even though the API mentions it gives slots for next 7 days. Some Private centers open slot for 3-4 days like Apollo Hospital in Navi Mumbai.

SantoshDMore commented 3 years ago

Why cant the bookings be automated instead of having users do it ? Send users a confirmation link with few minutes or hours of validity. Let the users enroll for aa day or days.. send confirmation on first come first serve basis.. if not confirmed roll it over to next users.. (This will also bring down sugar levels for many people caused due to this stress and anxiety.) .. Please do it for gods sake at least !!!!!!!!

souvik234 commented 3 years ago

@rudrasura It is perfectly humanly possible to go from clicking the "schedule appointment" button to clicking the "Confirm" button in under 30 secs.

abhijeetsingh26 commented 3 years ago

Can we have some chatter over https://github.com/cowinapi/developer.cowin/issues/174 so it gets some undue attention.