ltadatamallcrawler 0.2.3

A package that gets traffic data from LTA datamall APIs.

# lta-datamall-crawler

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LTA is responsible for planning, operating, and maintaining Singapore's land transport and systems.

This repository contains a python module to get data from LTA's [datamall][1] (free). Maybe I should not name this repository as LTA-datamall-crawler but you can always create a simple cronjob for crawling purposes.



### Installation

```python

pip install ltadatamallcrawler

```

Or, you can always clone this project and run the script directly.



### Requirements

You will need LTA datamall API key and GUUID.
To get the API key, click "Request for API Access" on the [LTA datamall page][3]. API key will be granted immediately. Using the API key, you can generate a GUUID on [this page][4].


### Usage

```bash
# to view the available APIs:

lta-datamall-crawler -h




# Expected output:

Usage: lta-datamall-crawler [options]

#Options:
# -h, --help show this help message and exit
#
# Available APIs:
# Please select one!
#
# --traffic-incidents
# --bus-arrival
# --bus-routes
# --estimated-travel-times
# --road-openings
# --erp-rates
# --vms-emas
# --taxi-availability
# --faulty-traffic-lights
# --carpark-availability
# --bus-stops
# --traffic-images
# --traffic-speed-bands
# --bus-services
# --road-works




# to get 'real-time' traffic incidents data

lta-datamall-crawler --traffic-incidents


```




### Motivation

Sometimes it can be quite labourous to create boilerplate codes for doing HTTP get requests to different APIs even though the [requests package][2] can make life slightly easier. I've created this project to make life easier for people who are interested in getting traffic data from Singapore LTA datamall.


### Available API

| description | freq | url |
|------------------------|----------|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Bus Arrival | 1m | http://datamall2.mytransport.sg/ltaodataservice/BusArrival |
| Bus Services | ad-hoc | http://datamall2.mytransport.sg/ltaodataservice/BusServices |
| Bus Routes | ad-hoc | http://datamall2.mytransport.sg/ltaodataservice/BusRoutes |
| Bus Stops | ad-hoc | http://datamall2.mytransport.sg/ltaodataservice/BusRoutes |
| Taxi Availability | 2m | http://datamall2.mytransport.sg/ltaodataservice/Taxi-Availability |
| Carpark Availability | 1m | http://datamall2.mytransport.sg/ltaodataservice/CarParkAvailability |
| ERP Rates | ad-hoc | http://datamall2.mytransport.sg/ltaodataservice/ERPRates |
| Estimated Travel Times | 5m | http://datamall2.mytransport.sg/ltaodataservice/EstTravelTimes |
| Faulty Traffic Lights | 2m | http://datamall2.mytransport.sg/ltaodataservice/FaultyTrafficLights |
| Road Openings | 1d | http://datamall2.mytransport.sg/ltaodataservice/RoadOpenings |
| Road Works | 1d | http://datamall2.mytransport.sg/ltaodataservice/RoadWorks |
| Traffic Images | 5m | http://datamall2.mytransport.sg/ltaodataservice/Traffic-Images |
| Traffic Incidents | 2m | http://datamall2.mytransport.sg/ltaodataservice/TrafficIncidents |
| Traffic Speed Bands | 5m | http://datamall2.mytransport.sg/ltaodataservice/TrafficSpeedBands |
| VMS / EMAS | 2m | http://datamall2.mytransport.sg/ltaodataservice/VMS |





### Project Roadmap

* use as a library in python script
* allow HTTP requests with parameters for filtering results
* create appropriate unittests



[1]:https://www.mytransport.sg/content/mytransport/home/dataMall.html
[2]:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests/2.11.1
[3]:https://www.mytransport.sg/content/mytransport/home/dataMall.html
[4]:http://datamall.mytransport.sg/tool.aspx




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