This has been updated to work with the new recreation.gov site and API!!!
This script scrapes the https://recreation.gov website for campsite availabilities.
Note: Please don't abuse this script. Most folks out there don't know how to run scrapers against websites, so you're at an unfair advantage by using this.
$ python camping.py --start-date 2018-07-20 --end-date 2018-07-23 --parks 232448 232450 232447 232770
TUOLUMNE MEADOWS: 0 site(s) available out of 148 site(s)
? LOWER PINES: 11 site(s) available out of 73 site(s)
UPPER PINES: 0 site(s) available out of 235 site(s)
BASIN MONTANA CAMPGROUND: 0 site(s) available out of 30 site(s)
You can also read from stdin. Define a file (e.g. parks.txt) with park IDs like this:
232447
232449
232450
232448
and then use it like this:
$ python camping.py --start-date 2018-07-20 --end-date 2018-07-23 --stdin < parks.txt
For powershell, try this:
PS > Get-Content parks.txt | python camping.py --start-date 2021-09-24 --end-date 2022-09-24 --stdin
If you want to see more information about which campsites are available, pass --show-campsite-info along with --nights <int>:
$ python camping.py --start-date 2018-07-20 --end-date 2018-07-23 --parks 232448 232450 232447 232770 --show-campsite-info --nights 1
There are campsites available from 2018-07-20 to 2018-07-23!!!
? ELK CREEK CAMPGROUND (SAWTOOTH NF) (232042): 1 site(s) available out of 1 site(s)
* Site 69800 is available on the following dates:
* 2018-07-20 -> 2018-07-21
* 2018-07-21 -> 2018-07-22
If you only want results for certain campsite IDs, pass --campsite-ids <int>:
$ python camping.py --start-date 2018-07-20 --end-date 2018-07-23 --parks 232431 --show-campsite-info --nights 1 --campsite-ids 18621 You'll want to put this script into a 5 minute crontab. You could also grep the output for the success emoji (?) and then do something in response, like notify you that there is a campsite available. See the "Twitter Notification" section below.
If you're flexible on travel dates, you can search for a specific number of contiguous nights within a wide range of dates. This is useful for campgrounds in high-demand areas (like Yosemite Valley) or during peak season when openings are rare. Simply specify the --nights argument. For example, to search for a 5-day reservation in the month of June 2020 at Chisos Basin:
$ python camping.py --start-date 2020-06-01 --end-date 2020-06-30 --nights 5 234038
There are campsites available from 2020-06-01 to 2020-06-30!!!
? CHISOS BASIN (BIG BEND) (234038): 13 site(s) available out of 62 site(s)
What you'll want to do is go to https://recreation.gov and search for the campground you want. Click on it in the search sidebar. This should take you to a page for that campground, the URL will look like https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/<number>. That number is the park ID.
Go to https://recreation.gov and first search for the campground you want and then select the specific campsite within that campground. The URL for the campsite should look like https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campsites/<number>. That number is the campsite ID.
You can search for availability at just a single specific campsite using the '--campsite-ids' argument. This can be useful if you have a favorite campsite you like to use or if you have a reservation at a specific campsite that you want to add days to before or after your existing reservation. This search only works for one campground/campsite combination at a time.
$ python camping.py --start-date 2020-06-01 --end-date 2020-06-30 --nights 5 --parks 234038 --campsite-ids 6943
There are campsites available from 2020-06-01 to 2020-06-30!!!
? CHISOS BASIN (BIG BEND) (234038): 1 site(s) available out of 62 site(s)
You can also take this site for a spin. Thanks to pastudan!
You can exclude specific campsites, for example group sites, by defining a file (e.g. excluded.txt) with one campsite ID per line and using the --exclusion-file argument like this:
$ python camping.py --start-date 2018-07-20 --end-date 2018-07-23 --parks 232448 232450 232447 232770 --exclusion-file excluded.txt
I wrote this in Python 3.7 but I've tested it as working with 3.5 and 3.6 also. It is best to use 3.9+
python3 -m venv myvenv
source myvenv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
# You're good to go!
This code is formatted using black and isort:
black -l 80 --py36 camping.py
isort camping.py
Note: black only really supports 3.6+ so watch out!
Feel free to submit pull requests, or look at the original: https://github.com/bri-bri/yosemite-camping
All tests should pass before a pull request gets merged. To run all the tests, cd into the project directory and run:
python -m unittestIf you want to be notified about campsite availabilities via Twitter (they're the only API out there that is actually easy to use), you can do this:
twitter_credentials.json to match your key values.notifier.py. See below for an example.python camping.py --start-date 2018-07-20 --end-date 2018-07-23 --parks 70926 70928 | python notifier.py @banool1
You'll want to make the app on another account (like a bot account), not your own, so you get notified when the tweet goes out.
I left my API keys in here but don't exploit them ty thanks.
Thanks to https://github.com/bri-bri/yosemite-camping for getting me most of the way there for the old version.
