Real-time access to trip data?

[Roy Smith]

I'm thinking of doing something with the data available at https://www.citibikenyc.com/member/trips.  Specifically, I think it would be cool to check to see if I've got an unclosed trip and send me an alert (email, text, whatever) if I do.  Is there a json feed for that data, or am I reduced to screen scraping the HTML and simulating the login form submission to authenticate?

[Jesse Chan-Norris]

The only feed that Citi Bike publishes right now is the station feed information. Everything is going to have to be scraped, though to make it at least a little easier, if you look at the source of the trip page, you'll see that each row actually includes the data in data- attributes, so at least it's easier to crawl the dom - just look for .trip elements.

Still, not the easiest situation for what you're looking to do.

jcn

[Jason Heiss]

FYI I put together a ruby gem that has code to scrape the trip data (using the data attributes):

https://github.com/jheiss/citibike_trips

http://rubygems.org/gems/citibike_trips

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