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Looks like permits have moved to recreation.gov this year so hackjohn is broken again. I assume the permit application process has otherwise remained the same, but I haven't looked into it in detail. Either way, it could be a substantial amount of work to update hackjohn.

I don't have the time to work on this at the moment but it's possible I will later this spring or summer. If anyone else wants to take a stab at it I can offer some help as needed.

Currently, the trailhead report webpage that hackjohn uses at https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/fulltrailheads.htm shows the following:

The "improved version" at https://yosemite.org/planning-your-wilderness-permit/ places the trailhead report behind a capcha:

So it looks like users will no longer be able to perform automated checks of the trailhead report, like Hackjohn used to enable. This is a bit of a bummer, but perhaps Hackjohn was a victim of its own success!

If anyone is aware of a workaround or finds the trailhead available from a public API endpoint, let us know below and Hackjohn might be able to resurrect itself.

I'm a beginner at python, but I did manage to get this bot to work earlier today, 3 pm PDT. A little later (7 pm PDT), I tried to run it again and it gave me the ValueError "Date" is not in list message. I checked the trailhead website and the table looks really different than it did earlier today. I think Yosemite NP changed the format of the table at some point this afternoon, and that's what is messing up the code.

Hi there--very cool project. I can run hackjohn from the shell, but not from cron--when it runs from cron it does not seem to be able to successfully load the anaconda environment. Do you mind sharing more details on how you managed to configure it with cron?
I have created a shell script to be executed by cron. I have tried every possible permutation of:
cd /Users/friedman/hackjohn
conda activate hackjohn or source /anaconda2/bin/activate hackjohn
/anaconda2/envs/hackjohn/bin/python hackjohn.py or python hackjohn.py or
hackjohn.py (with the proper shebang line at the top)

Could you share insight about how you got cron to properly activate the anaconda environment and use the proper version of python? thanks so much:)

It should be possible to do everything via GitHub actions, so users don't have to run anything locally.

Instead, a user would fork dhimmel/hackjohn and edit the parameters. Then scheduled cron actions would take care of the rest.

Hi - Sorry for posting my off topic question in the other issue. I've spent a ton of time in the high sierra but never really bothered with the Yosemite system since it always confused me.

I was wondering if you could help me understand how to read the table of vacancies. Mainly I was wondering, are dates other than the 2-week-out date subject to lottery? For instance, if I wanted to submit a reservation for August 13 (1 available) or September 5 (4 available), are these bookable today (Aug 4)?

Apologies if my question is confusing. I'm trying to determine if it's worth it to work on a scraper to bypass the captcha or if it's the chances of getting any sort of permit through this system is low.

Any reason I would be getting this message?

Empty DataFrame
Columns: [Date, Trailhead, Spaces]
Index: []

I am getting lots of error. I solved some of them but their is no Trailhead column in the df.

Is there a way to include the report date in the message that gets sent out? It looks like the report isn't updated very consistently and I'd like to include the report date in the message. There doesn't seem to be a specific css class associated with the report date span but it is the only occurrence of the "Report Date:" string in the file. Python isn't my strong suit or I'd add a PR for this feature.