Get traffic jams numbers from Ile de France in real time as notifications!

bouchons.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from requests import get
from os import system
from time import sleep


km = "0"
while 1:
    content = get("http://www.sytadin.fr/sys/barometre_courbe_cumul.jsp.html")

    soup = BeautifulSoup(content.text, features="lxml")

    bouchons = soup.find_all("strong")
    if len(bouchons):
        bouchons = (
            bouchons[0]
            .text.replace("<strong>", "")
            .replace("</strong>", "")
            .strip()
            .replace(" km", "")
        )

        if bouchons != km:
            if int(km) > int(bouchons):
                s = "Baisse de " + str(int(km) - int(bouchons)) + "km."
            else:
                s = "Hausse de " + str(int(bouchons) - int(km)) + "km."
            km = bouchons
            system('notify-send "' + km + "km de bouchons...\n" + s + '"')
    sleep(60)

Install

python3 -m pip install requests beautifulsoup4
wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/corentinbettiol/f8373a76bf4d1aaf5493d8e3afc0e2d9/raw/a0a19c3fce56b58be444a264ca3e0f5a4828c3e8/bouchons.py
chmod +x bouchons.py

Use

Use like this :

• nohup ./bouchons.py &

• close terminal
• enjoy