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Downloading the Citi Bike Data with Python
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import glob | |
import urllib2 | |
import zipfile | |
def cbd_downloader(url,path): | |
""" | |
Download the Citi Bike Station Data. | |
:param url: string url of the data file | |
:param path: string - path to save the file | |
""" | |
file_name = url.split("/")[-1] | |
outfile = open(path + file_name,'wb') | |
tmp_data = urllib2.urlopen(url).read() | |
outfile.write(tmp_data) | |
outfile.close() | |
print "DONE " + file_name | |
def cbd_unzip(zip_file,extract_path): | |
""" | |
Extract the Citi Bike Data zip files | |
""" | |
with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_file, "r") as zipped_data: | |
zipped_data.extractall(extract_path) | |
print "Done " + zip_file | |
if __name__ == "__main__": | |
url_list = [ | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201307-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201308-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201309-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201310-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201311-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201312-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201401-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201402-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201403-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201404-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201405-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201406-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201407-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201408-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201409-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201410-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201411-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201412-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201501-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201502-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201503-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201504-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201505-citibike-tripdata.zip", | |
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/tripdata/201506-citibike-tripdata.zip" | |
] | |
for url in url_list: | |
cbd_downloader(url,"citi_bike_data") | |
zipped_data = glob.glob("citi_bike_data") | |
for zip in zipped_data: | |
cbd_unzip(zip,"citi_bike_data/csv") | |
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