Automatically Check Delivery Boxes & Electric Bike Availability with Python! An Introduction to Web Scraping

2026-08-30

Since it’s a hassle to access the website every time to check, let’s create a Python script to check the real-time inventory of FullTime System (rental bicycles / delivery boxes, etc.).

Prerequisites and Legal Considerations

Set up the Python environment (install requests and BeautifulSoup4)
Check robots.txt, meta robots tags, and terms of service in advance to confirm scraping permission
This is important
Leave intervals between requests to reduce server load

Script (Fetching Remaining Units)

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

def fetch_remaining_bikes(url):
    resp = requests.get(url)
    resp.raise_for_status()  # Error check

    soup = BeautifulSoup(resp.text, "html.parser")

    # Look for a structure like <td class="count">5</td>
    # Use find_all if there are multiple facilities
    td = soup.find("td", class_="count")
    if not td:
        raise ValueError("Could not find the element for remaining units")

    count_text = td.get_text(strip=True)
    try:
        return int(count_text)
    except ValueError:
        raise ValueError(f"Failed to convert to number: {count_text!r}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    url = "https://f-cs.jp/wcsv2/index.php?id=<DeliveryBoxID>"
    try:
        remaining = fetch_remaining_bikes(url)
        print(f"Remaining electric bikes: {remaining}")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"An error occurred: {e}")

requests + BeautifulSoup
Since it depends on the HTML structure, you need to verify the class names and other details of the target to be scraped
Example Execution Result
Remaining electric bikes: 7