r/learnprogramming • u/No_Bobcat_6522 • 2h ago

[Python / Playwright / Selenium] Need help solving a visa appointment problem - Egypt

Hi everyone.. I'm an Egyptian student accepted for a master's at Sapienza University of Rome, starting September 21

My documents and university procedures are ready, but I'm unable to secure an Italian student visa appointment through AlmavivA Egypt.

Appointments are released daily around 9 AM, but they disappear extremely quickly. There are also brokers/scalpers who use automated tools to secure appointments much faster than normal users, then resell them to students.

I'm not looking to buy an appointment or build a tool to resell them. I just need help from someone experienced with Python / Playwright / Selenium / browser automation to understand if there's a legitimate technical solution that could give me a fair chance of securing one appointment for myself.

If you have experience with this kind of automation and can help or point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.. I'm genuinely worried about missing my Master's start date because of this.

Thank you 🙏

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u/FixedListener_8065 2h ago

you're basically competing against bots with a stopwatch, and that's a losing game unless you automate the form-filling and submission part too, not just the monitoring

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u/No_Bobcat_6522 1h ago

I tried automating this using Cloud, but it didn't work. The appointment page doesn't even enter from the beginning so I can't fill in the information automatically.

There's a check button that doesn't open the next portal