Korail

An unofficial Korail API for Python.

Installation

You can install Korail with pip command like below:

$ pip install korail

Quick Start

1. Login

You can login to korail server via membership number signing or phone number signing.

Basically, to login via membership number signing:

from korail import Korail

korail = Korail()
korail.login('12345678', '0000')  # membership number signing

Or via phone number signing:

korail.login('010-1234-5678', '0000', True)  # phone number siging

2. Search Station

Search a station code with station name. All station code and name data is stored in stations.py file in package.

A single station data looks like:

{
    "code": "0001",
    "name": u"서울"
}

stations = korail.search_station('서울')
print stations[0]['code']  # '0001'

3. Search Train

You can search train schedules with search_train() method. search_train() method takes these arguments:

dep

A departure station code.

arr

An arrival station code.

date

Departure date. (yyyyMMdd formatted)

time (Default='000000')

Departure time. (hhmmss formatted)

train (Default='05')

A train type. One of these:

00: KTX
01: 새마을호
02: 무궁화호
03: 통근열차
04: 누리로
05: 전체 (기본값)
06: 공학직통
09: ITX-청춘

count (Default=1)

A number of passengers. Minimum value is 1 and maximum is 9.

Sample search code:

dep = '0001'  # From: Seoul Station
arr = '0015'  # To: Dong-Daegu Station
date = '20140114'  # yyyyMMdd
time = '001230'  # hhmmss

# list of ``Trains`` instances.
trains = korail.search_train(dep, arr, date, time)

4. Reservation

try:
    korail.reserve(train)
except KorailError as e:
    print e.message

5. Get Tickets

Retrieving all ticket information is not support yet. Only ticket id is returned.

korail.tickets()

6. Cancel Ticket

Example code below cancels all reserved tickets.

for ticket_id in korail.tickets():
    korail.cancel_ticket(ticket_id)

To-Do

Non-member reservation
More detailed exception handling
tickets() to return all ticket information.

ziozzang/korail