NJ MVC/DMV Scraper

This is a rudimentary scraper for the NJ DMV to check when locations get full.

It writes data to a CSV - location, time it was detected to be full, and the date.

The CSV can be used to graph how busy a DMV location is over time. I made this to quickly see which DMV to go to.

This is designed to run as a scheduled job, as quickly as you want before you get IP banned.

• I am not responsible for anything anyone does with this. See LICENSE for details.

• The MVC does a horrible job of updating the site so expect the locations to have closed over an hour before getting marked as full. They seem to get pushed in batches, probably manually.

• To the best of my knowledge and research, this does not violate any ToS on the NJ state website. Don't prosecute me because you didn't think to provide a public API for this.

Getting started

Requirements: Docker, Bash

Run app in docker:

make build

make run

This will output the CSV in the output folder

Run run.sh for a simple script that will poll every 30s

Local development

make setup

source .venv/bin/activate

python src/main.py

Analysis Examples

• Analyze how early in the day locations got full

• Which DMVs fill up the fastest, correlates to how busy they are relative to each other

• Which days are busiest