Welcome to Campsite Alert. The script simply updates you on the availability of your favorite campsite at your favorite park on recreation.gov on a given schedule.
Some of the required parameters of the script consists of
--start_date --end_date --park_id
An example to run the code is listed below:
The given parameters simply state that you're interested in looking for the campsite available...
between 2022-03-09 and 2022-03-30
at the park 232453 and the specific campsite of 042.
Continue to refresh the results every 1 minute for 1 hour.
python Campsite_Alert.py \
--start_date 2022-03-01 \
--end_date 2022-03-30 \
--park_id 232453 \
--campsite 042 \
--cycle_time 1 \
--total_time 1Output
From the specified dates of 2022-03-01 to 2022-03-30 at park_id 232447
Campsite 042 status:
AVAILABLE on 2022-03-08
AVAILABLE on 2022-03-09--park_id
To find the necessary IDs for the park you're interested in. Simply navigate to through the
recreation.gov
and find your park of interest. For example, the
Upper Pines
shows the url of
https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/232447. The park_id is simply the numeric value at the end of the url, which is 232447.
--campsite
The campsite is simply the designated Sites referred to on the chart.
