Advice for a NOOB please on how to ping the NRE API (LDBWS) from a Raspberry Pi using python

[chil...@gmail.com]

Hi there,

As a NOOB is anyone able to give me any advice on the syntax I need to follow, using the GetDepartureBoard response (found here https://lite.realtime.nationalrail.co.uk/OpenLDBWS/) so I could just print the response locally to start with, given the following:

1. I'm running this from a raspberry pi using python.
2. I've received from token from national rail
3. I've executed the line of python code below and received a <Response [200]> back, which from the HTTP status code definitions gives me small hope!

token = "MyPrivateTokenWouldGoHere"
url = "https://lite.realtime.nationalrail.co.uk/OpenLDBWS/wsdl.aspx?ver=2015-05-14"


import requests

r = requests.get(url,auth=(token,''))
print r

I have tried a variety of different ways to include the GetDepartureBoard response, either as a separate call that follows on immediately after r = r.requests.get(url,auth=(token1,'')) or within the parenthesis of the command.

Thanks
Chris

[Peter Hicks]

Hi Chris

Have you looked at the documentation at http://nrodwiki.rockshore.net/index.php/NRE_Darwin_Web_Service_(Public) ?

You need to use a SOAP library to send and receive responses, or https://huxley.unop.uk/ which is a front-end proxy that you can run yourself.

Peter

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[George Goldberg]

Hi Chris,

Try this library: https://github.com/robert-b-clarke/nre-darwin-py

It hides all the SOAP stuff you would need to do if you try and access the raw API using requests.

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George

[chil...@gmail.com]

Thanks gents, quite chuffed with myself as now able to a request for my local station's departure board, small steps and all that ;-)