Sample python3 script to scrape real-time data from an APS Systems ECU

getECUData.py

#
# Sample python3 script to scrape real-time data from an APS Systems ECU, software version 3.10.10
# The '###' comments are instructions for setting this up to work on your system
#

### needs the bs4 libary, so "$ pip install bs4"
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib.request

### Change this IP to match your ECU IP address
ecuIP = "192.168.1.67"
url = "http://" + ecuIP + "/cgi-bin/parameters?target=main"

# scrape the table from the real time data page of the ECU
table = BeautifulSoup(urllib.request.urlopen(url),"html.parser").find("table")

# grab the data from table rows, noting that the "[1:]" means skip the header row
for row in table.find_all("tr")[1:]:
    # for each of the columns, strip out any data after the &nbsp (i.e. the units) so we can store as numbers
    # for now I'm just printing the data, but it would be easy to push it into a database
    print("ID: " + row.contents[0].get_text().split("\xa0")[0])
    print("Power: " + row.contents[1].get_text().split("\xa0")[0]) 
    print("Freq: " + row.contents[2].get_text().split("\xa0")[0])
    print("Volts: " + row.contents[3].get_text().split("\xa0")[0])
    print("Temp: " + row.contents[4].get_text().split("\xa0")[0])
    # Need to update this code to parse the date so we could store it as a datetime field in a database
    print("Date: " + row.contents[5].get_text().split("\xa0")[0])