nstimes

Find your next train home while you are in CLI. I used the Dutch Railway Services (Nederlandse Spoorwegen) API to make myself this tool.

Usage:

$ nstimes [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:

• --version: Print version info
• --install-completion: Install completion for the current shell.
• --show-completion: Show completion for the current shell, to copy it or customize the installation.
• --help: Show this message and exit.

Commands:

• journey: Provide train type, platform and departure...
• update-stations-json: Generate stations lookup

nstimes journey

Provide train type, platform and departure times of an A -> B journey

Usage:

$ nstimes journey [OPTIONS]

Options:

• --start TEXT: Start station [required]
• --end TEXT: Stop station [required]
• --token TEXT: Token to talk with the NS API [env var: NS_API_TOKEN; required]
• --time TEXT: Time to departure (%H:%M) [default: 12:19]
• --date TEXT: Date to departure (%d-%m-%Y) [default: 15-10-2023]
• --printer-choice [table|ascii]: [default: ascii]
• --help: Show this message and exit.

nstimes update-stations-json

Generate stations lookup, should not be neccesary

Usage:

$ nstimes update-stations-json [OPTIONS]

Options:

• --token TEXT: Token to talk with the NS API [env var: NS_API_TOKEN; required]
• --path TEXT: Token to talk with the NS API [env var: NS_API_TOKEN; default: /home/erik/dev/ns_cli/nstimes/stations.json]
• --help: Show this message and exit.

Installation

To install, run the following:

pip install nstimes

To verify, run:

nstimes --version

To install auto-completion, run:

nstimes --install-completion

In order for autocomplete to work, one might need to add this to their .zshrc:

echo -e "\ncompinit -D\n" | tee -a ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc # Reload shell

Obtaining NS token Create an account at the NS API portal. Then create a token here.

Add the token to your shell, for zsh:

echo -e "\nexport NS_API_TOKEN=****\n" | tee -a ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc # Reload shell

Printers By default, this tool prints in ASCII, e.g.:

IC  p. 12 in  4 min (21:37) -> (21:50)
IC  p. 12 in 16 min (21:49) -> (22:02)
SPR p.  4 in 17 min (21:50) -> (22:10)
IC  p. 12 in 34 min (22:07) -> (22:20)
IC  p. 12 in 46 min (22:19) -> (22:32)
SPR p.  4 in 47 min (22:20) -> (22:40)

If you use the --printer-choice table option it prints like:

    Journeys from Utrecht Centraal -> Amersfoort Centraal at
                        24-01-2024 21:32
┏━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Train ┃ Platform ┃ Leaves in ┃ Departure time ┃ Arrival time ┃
┡━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ IC    │       12 │     4 min │        (21:37) │      (21:50) │
│ IC    │       12 │    16 min │        (21:49) │      (22:02) │
│ SPR   │        4 │    17 min │        (21:50) │      (22:10) │
│ IC    │       12 │    34 min │        (22:07) │      (22:20) │
│ IC    │       12 │    46 min │        (22:19) │      (22:32) │
│ SPR   │        4 │    47 min │        (22:20) │      (22:40) │
└───────┴──────────┴───────────┴────────────────┴──────────────┘