Scrape your personal bikeshare trip data with R
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Scrape your personal Capital Bikeshare Trip data
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| library(rvest) | |
| s <- html_session("https://secure.capitalbikeshare.com/profile/login") | |
| s2 <- s %>% html_form %>% `[[`(., 1) %>% | |
| set_values(`_username` = "username", `_password` = "*********") %>% | |
| submit_form(s, .) | |
| get_trip_info <- function(item, trips, trim = TRUE){ | |
| node <- paste0(".ed-table__item__info_trip-", item) | |
| trips %>% html_nodes(css = node) %>% html_text(trim = trim) | |
| } | |
| myinfo <- c("start-station", "end-station", "duration", "cost", "start-date") | |
| alldat <- NULL | |
| for(i in 1:40){ | |
| trips <- s2 %>% html_node(".ed-profile-menu__link_trips > a") %>% html_attr("href") %>% | |
| paste0("?pageNumber=", i) %>% jump_to(s2, .) | |
| infolist <- as.data.frame(lapply(myinfo, get_trip_info, trips)) | |
| colnames(infolist) <- myinfo | |
| alldat <- rbind(alldat, infolist) | |
| } | |
| alldat$timesec <- sapply(strsplit(paste(alldat$duration), " ", fixed = TRUE), function(v){ | |
| as.numeric(v[1]) * 60 + as.numeric(v[3]) | |
| }) | |
| alldat$Date <- as.Date(sapply(strsplit(paste(alldat$`start-date`), "\\s+"), | |
| function(x){ x[2] }), format = "%Y/%m/%d") |
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Dec 10, 2015
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