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

Tue Sep 6 16:00:40 UTC 2011

I've find an article why you mustn't use regex with HTML:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/11/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way.html

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Ludovic Gasc <gmludo at gmail.com> 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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>> Ludovic Gasc
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> Ludovic Gasc
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