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Re:Bike Share Program Opens in New York City After Long Delay by mapleoin on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @09:27AM (#5779846)
That looks pretty awesome. How do you get your data? Do all those bike sharing services have real-time public APIs that you connect to?
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Re:Bike Share Program Opens in New York City After Long Delay by kh_hk on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @09:36AM (#5779908)
Some have (for instance NYC, kudos to them!), other services do not have anything, and data has to be scraped from their website. Most of the time it's a pain in the ass that involves many different dodgy tricks.

I have a python library available at http://github.com/eskerda/pybikes that unifies all the data from different sources into the same model.

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Re:Bike Share Program Opens in New York City After Long Delay by mapleoin on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @09:43AM (#5779955)
Awesome! Thanks for making that opensource!
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Re:Bike Share Program Opens in New York City After Long Delay by Thrymr on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @11:38AM (#5780640)
Citibike has a json API: http://citibikenyc.com/stations/json
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