Query dublin bus to get the times for a specific bus number at a certain stop. e.g. python busTimes.php 4 327

busTimes.py

import argparse
import urllib2
import datetime
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
# Get our arguments
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("busNumber")
parser.add_argument("stopNumber")
args = parser.parse_args()
busNumber = args.busNumber
stopNumber = args.stopNumber
 
times = 'http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/RTPI/Sources-of-Real-Time-Information/?searchtype=view&searchquery=' + stopNumber
 
soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen(times).read())
table = soup.find('table', attrs={'id': 'rtpi-results'})
rows = table.find_all('tr', {'class': ['even','odd']})
 
output = datetime.datetime.today().strftime('%H:%M:%S %d/%m/%Y,')
for row in rows:
    cols = row.find_all('td')
    if cols[0].find(text=True).strip() == busNumber:
        output += cols[2].find(text=True).strip() + ","
 
print output