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

Tue Aug 30 22:28:55 UTC 2011

Hi Ludovic!

Great work! Using that library instead of regexs is not a bad approach
at all :) I will review the code later this week.

If anyone feels like fixing the liveboard API better, please go ahead.
There are still some serious issues with a lot of stations. Maybe it's
better to use the htmldom lib as well?

Kind regards,

Pieter

On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 00:58 +0200, Ludovic Gasc wrote:
> Small remark:
> I've used this library: http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/manual.htm
> 
> For me it will be easier to adapt quickly your source code with a HTML
> parser than a regex.
> 
> If it's a problem for somebody, please give us the right regex to do this.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Ludovic Gasc <gmludo at gmail.com> 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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> 
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