qpws-camper is a tool to quickly check availabilities at campgrounds listed on the Queensland National Parks Booking Service. Hopefully it saves you a few minutes and gets you out camping!
So far the functionality is incomplete and lacks support for a few types of listings in the booking service. If you see a "Check Availabilities" button for the facility you're looking at, hopefully it should work. If not, feel free to open an issue.
npm install -g qpws-camper
qpws-camper --date YYYY-MM-DD --facility "<facility name>"
The CLI is limited and only takes a couple arguments. --date specifies the start date for the search. --facility specifies the facility name exactly as you see it on the booking site. That's it.
Heading to the beach? Let's see.
$ qpws-camper --date 2021-05-01 --facility "MV Sarawak"
┌─────────┬──────────────────┬─────────────────┐
│ (index) │ date │ sites_available │
├─────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ 0 │ 'Sat, 1/5/2021' │ 218 │
│ 1 │ 'Sun, 2/5/2021' │ 229 │
│ 2 │ 'Mon, 3/5/2021' │ 0 │
│ 3 │ 'Tue, 4/5/2021' │ 0 │
│ 4 │ 'Wed, 5/5/2021' │ 0 │
│ 5 │ 'Thu, 6/5/2021' │ 0 │
│ 6 │ 'Fri, 7/5/2021' │ 0 │
│ 7 │ 'Sat, 8/5/2021' │ 248 │
│ 8 │ 'Sun, 9/5/2021' │ 242 │
│ 9 │ 'Mon, 10/5/2021' │ 242 │
│ 10 │ 'Tue, 11/5/2021' │ 242 │
│ 11 │ 'Wed, 12/5/2021' │ 242 │
│ 12 │ 'Thu, 13/5/2021' │ 242 │
│ 13 │ 'Fri, 14/5/2021' │ 240 │
└─────────┴──────────────────┴─────────────────┘
qpws-camper interacts directly with the booking service UI, clicking buttons and such as if it were a real human getting ready for a really nice camping trip! This means it has a few limitations and can be a bit brittle. If it fails for you, please open an issue. I can't promise I'll fix it, but it's better to keep track of these things.
There are two important flags. --verbose logs which steps have been taken so far. --debug-browser opens the browser in "headed" mode so that you can watch it do its thing (it's fast)! Both flags might yield useful information for when opening an issue.