WMATA SmarTrip Usage Python Screen Scraper
Written by Justin Grimes (@justgrimes) & Josh Tauberer (@joshdata)
Simple python script that scrapes a SmarTrip user's transit usage data from WMATA website (http://smartrip.wmata.com) Script authenticates into WMATA website using Mechanize library and then extracts data from HTML tables using Beautiful Soup library then writes lovely clean CSV files. Feel free to use; I claim nothing; To map returned WMATA station "short names" to proper full name to get latitude and longitude use this crosswalk: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvcRuGkEq26jdEFLbGVlTjdJdmRnUXBBTHVOUmg0eEE&usp=sharing
This script looks for your SmarTrip username and password in the environment variables WMATA_SMARTRIP_USERNAME and WMATA_SMARTRIP_PASSWORD.