README.md

Tickets issued to the low number plates in Washington, DC.

Legality: looking solid. No automated clause in DC's ToS and no terms displayed by the outsourced Xerox portal. No personal data included.

Requires: node +

• request
• cheerio

scrape.js

var request = require('request'),
    fs = require('fs'),
    cheerio = require('cheerio');

var url = 'https://wmq.etimspayments.com/pbw/inputAction.doh';

var all = {};

function getPlate(p, cb) {
    var r = request({
        method: 'POST',
        headers: {
            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.28 Safari/537.31',
            'Referrer': 'https://wmq.etimspayments.com/pbw/include/dc_parking/input.jsp?ticketType=P',
            'COOKIE': 'JSESSIONID=0000LtZe0eFegls33J4eS3BQ9V4:-1'
        },
        form: {
            clientcode: '09',
            clientAccount: 7,
            requestType: 'submit',
            requestCount: 1,
            ticketNumber: '',
            statePlate: 'DC',
            plateNumber: p,
            submit: 'Submit'
        },
        url: url
    }, function(err, d) {

        var $ = cheerio.load(d.body);

        var tn = $('b').filter(function(i, el) {
            return $(el).text().trim() == 'Violation';
        });

        var table = tn.parent().parent().parent().parent();

        var data = table.find('tr').map(function(i, el) {
            return $(el).find('td').map(function(i, el) {
                return $(el).text();
            });
        });

        all[plateNumber] = data;
        cb();
    });
}

var plateNumber = 1;

function iterate() {
    console.log('getting plate ', plateNumber);
    if (plateNumber < 100) getPlate(plateNumber++, iterate);
    else {
        fs.writeFileSync('plates.json', JSON.stringify(all, null, 2));
    }
}

iterate();