[iRail] API Liveboards - scraper failure due to new mobile railtime website

Tue Aug 30 09:51:18 UTC 2011

Hello all, can we do something with Ludovic proposal?
I think that's something better than nothing ( even if a few stations 
are working right now)

My mailbox is growing with the same question from users again and again 
since yesterday :-p

I know that a lot of coders are in examinations and I wish them a very 
good ****, as that reminds me my 7 years of university with 3 
examinations sessions every year because I loved them!

Kind regards,

Christophe

On 30/08/2011 00:56, Ludovic Gasc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As discussed on the IRC channel, this is a patch to fix this problem:
> https://github.com/iRail/iRail/pull/15
>
> Thanks for your remarks.
>
> Yours.
>
> PS: It's my first patch for iRail, please to be indulgent with me ;-)
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Pieter Colpaert
> <pieter.colpaert at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> Today the guys from railtime launched a new website: m.railtime.be.
>> Without notifying us (although we asked DUO, infrabel and NMBS to do
>> so). Of course, our liveboard API which still scrapes this site was
>> broken.
>>
>> Quentin made a quick fix for it and partially rewrote the scraper. A lot
>> of code was reusable although they changed they way you ask for a
>> specific station. Now you have to give the perfect railtime name AND the
>> perfect railtime id. As we have those in our database we could quickly
>> fix this as well. Why they did this? No idea.
>>
>> If anything is still not functioning correctly, please wait notifying
>> Quentin and me after Wednesday, when both of our examinations are
>> finished ;)
>>
>> Of course, the api is still at:
>> http://api.irail.be/liveboard/?station=brussel%
>> 20centraal&lang=nl&format=json
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Pieter
>>
>>
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