An example usage of the googlemaps package to lookup origin / destination information using Google Maps API.

calc_travel.py

# You need to do a "pip install googlemaps" before running this.
# The input CSV file has an origin in Column A, and desinations in Column B
import csv
from googlemaps import GoogleMaps
from time import sleep

gmaps = GoogleMaps("your-super-long-API-key-from-Googles-API-Console")

stationReader = csv.reader(open('StationList.csv', 'rb'), delimiter=',')
timeWriter = csv.writer(open('Output.csv', 'wb'), delimiter=',', quotechar='|')

sta_from_list = []
sta_to_list = []

for row in stationReader:
    if len(row[0]) > 3:
        sta_from_list.append(row[0])
    if len(row[1]) > 3:
        sta_to_list.append(row[1])

timeWriter.writerow(["Station From", "Station To", "Meters", "Time in Sec", "Human Time"])

for sta_from in sta_from_list:
    for sta_to in sta_to_list:
        sleep(1)
        try:
            directions = gmaps.directions(sta_from+", New South Wales, Australia", sta_to+", New South Wales, Australia")
            meters = directions['Directions']['Distance']['meters']
            secs = directions['Directions']['Duration']['seconds']
            human_time = directions['Directions']['Duration']['html']

            if directions['Status']['code'] == 200:
                timeWriter.writerow([sta_from, sta_to, meters, secs, human_time])
            else:
                print "Lookup from %s to %s succeeded, but no results found." % (sta_from, sta_to)
        except:
            print "Error from %s to %s" % (sta_from, sta_to)

StationList.csv

hello
I'm interested in your application. Will you explain to me why when I exécutele script as I cca error "error from .. to .."
Thank you for your understanding
PS: I put my google key