This is a simple command line interface to the NYC MTA Subways. The jist of it is you can do something like subway.rb york north and you'll get the next few subway times for York Street Northbound. subway.rb may be used with several command line options such that you can specify: the number of upcoming times, 24hr/12hr clock, relative times (next subway in 12 minutes), and a no color option for scripting.
The one caveat is that you have to fetch and download MTA's Subway data prior to first use. This is handled by the included script called generateStops.rb. generateStops.rb generates a stops.csv file from MTA's Open Subway data. generateStops.rb will prompt you for the stops you'd like to be able to use subway.rb. generateStops.rb may be re-run at any time to re-fetch the most up to date MTA Subway data and regenerate stops.csv.
- Clone the repo:
git clone http://github.com/jns2/mta-subway-cli - Go into the directory:
cd mta-subway-cli - Install gems:
gem install zipruby nokogiri - Run generateStops.rb:
ruby generateStops.rb - That's it, Use subway.rb:
ruby subway.rb
subway.rb stop-name [line] [north/south]
-n #: Specifies the number of upcoming times for each stop--status: Shows an up to date status update for the given subway line--military: Displays time in 24 hour format (ex: 15:30:20)--relative: Display times relative to the current time (ex: 14 Minutes)--no-color: Removes color from the output
Examples:
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$
./subway -
$
./subway.rb herald d south -
$
./subway.rb 6 south 33 st
- Ruby >=1.8.7
- zipruby Gem
- Used to extract the ZIP of MTA's Subway Data to generate
stops.csv
- Used to extract the ZIP of MTA's Subway Data to generate
- Nokogiri Gem
- Used to fetch subway status updates from the MTA site
Created by Arjan Singh (jns2) and Miles Sandlar (mil) during Hacker School [3]