Dude, Where's My VIN?

I (usually) have better things to do than obsessively check my reservation status page to see if they've assigned me a VIN yet. So I decided to automate that part of my life.

This is a simple test suite written for Robot Framework that will check your Tesla reservation to see if your VIN has been assigned. I used PushBullet to notify me if the test passes.

Modify this all you want, I make no claims it will work for you. I also offer no support (but will accept contributions and/or enhancements). This was developed on Mac OS X, modifications may be necessary to get it to run on other platforms. Have at it!

Requirements

• Chrome

  • You may need to install Chromedriver separately, available at Chromedriver Downloads

  • on macOS, copy the chromedriver extracted from the ZIP file to /usr/local/bin and:

    chmod +x /usr/local/bin/chromedriver

    Procedure may differ for other platforms.

• Python 3

• these Python packages:

  pip install pushbullet-cli
  pip install robotframework
  pip install robotframework-seleniumlibrary

Setup

Modify the resource.robot file to contain your Tesla account email, password, reservation number you want to check on, and Pushbullet API key. By default it uses the pb command to send a notification to all configured PushBullet devices.

Oh yeah, and you'll need to configure pushbullet-cli to set your API key, device, etc., if you want to get push notifications. Your API key is also known as your Access Token, and is available from your Pushbullet Account Page.

Optionally, you could change how you get notified by modifying the command in the Notify keyword. For example, you could change the line to read something like this if you use Keybase (and you really should, it's awesome):

   Run    keybase chat send ${KB USER} ${message}`

Then you would add variables (in this case ${KB USER}) as appropriate.

Run

Execute robot tesla.robot to execute the test suite.

Or you can add the cron.sh script to your crontab to execute every so often, e.g.:

0 * * * * cd ~/dude-wheres-my-vin && ./cron.sh (This will check on minute 0, i.e. the first minute, of every hour.)

You may have to modify the cron.sh file to contain the correct path to your robot and chromedriver executables.

Also...

If you have more than one reservation, you can modify tesla.robot file to duplicate the VIN check test with different reservation numbers.