Sydney Cityrail (131500) Timetable on Command-line

You need "Lynx" installed. On Debian/Ubuntu, you can do "apt-get install Lynx".

Example usage:

• Put a '+' between the words, if the station name is not a single word.
• '-h' shows you the help.
• By default, it uses current date,time and Redfern-Blacktown stations as from-to combination. The station-name variables are easily editable on top of the script.

babil@quad:~$ train.sh -h

[*] usage: train.sh options

OPTIONS:

-u print url

-h show this message

-a set from station

-b set dest. station

-t set search time (08:30AM)

-d set search date (21/5/10)

babil@quad:~$ train.sh -a redfern -b north+sydney -d 2/7/2010 -t 14:00

From: Redfern Station

Dest: North+sydney Station

Time: 14:00

Date: 2/7/2010

Option 1 : 15 minutes

Dep: 2:00pm Redfern Station Platform 3

Arr: 2:15pm North Sydney Station Platform 4

Option 2 : 15 minutes

Dep: 2:04pm Redfern Station Platform 3

Arr: 2:19pm North Sydney Station Platform 4

Option 3 : 15 minutes

Dep: 2:15pm Redfern Station Platform 3

Arr: 2:30pm North Sydney Station Platform 4

Option 4 : 15 minutes

Dep: 2:19pm Redfern Station Platform 3

Arr: 2:34pm North Sydney Station Platform 4

Option 5 : 21 minutes

Dep: 2:20pm Redfern Station Platform 5

Arr: 2:28pm Wynyard Station Platform 6

Dep: 2:35pm Wynyard Station Platform 4

Arr: 2:41pm North Sydney Station Platform 4

Here's is the script:

    1 #!/bin/bash
    2 
    3 print_url=0
    4 
    5 from_sta='Central'
    6 dest_sta='Town+hall'
    7 now_date=$(date +%d%%2F%m%%2F%y)
    8 now_time=$(date +%I%%3A%M%p)
    9 
   10 function usage()
   11 {
   12 echo
   13 cat <<EOF
   14 [*] usage: `basename $0`  options
   15 
   16 OPTIONS:
   17  -u print url
   18  -h show this message
   19  -a set from station
   20  -b set dest. station
   21  -t set search time (08:30AM)
   22  -d set search date (21/5/10)
   23 EOF
   24 echo
   25 exit
   26 }
   27 
   28 while getopts "uha:b:t:d:" flag
   29 do
   30  if [ "$flag" == 'u' ]
   31  then
   32   print_url=1
   33  fi
   34 
   35  if [ "$flag" == 'h' ]
   36  then
   37   usage
   38  fi
   39 
   40  if [ "$flag" == 'a' ]
   41  then
   42   A=$(echo -n "${OPTARG:0:1}" | tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]")
   43   from_sta="$(echo -n "${A}${OPTARG:1}" | sed 's/ /+/g')"
   44  fi
   45 
   46  if [ "$flag" == 'b' ]
   47  then
   48   A=$(echo -n "${OPTARG:0:1}" | tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]")
   49   dest_sta="$(echo -n "${A}${OPTARG:1}" | sed 's/ /+/g')"
   50  fi
   51 
   52  if [ "$flag" == 't' ]
   53  then
   54   now_time="$(echo -n "$OPTARG" | tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]")"
   55  fi
   56 
   57  if [ "$flag" == 'd' ]
   58  then
   59   now_date="$OPTARG"
   60  fi
   61 done
   62 
   63 url="http://www.131500.com.au/fullEnquiry.asp?&Vehicle=Bus,Train,
   64 Ferry&WalkSpeed=NORMAL&&IsAfter=A&MaxChanges=-
   65 1&FromLocType=s&ToLocType=s&x=64&y=11&FromLoc=$from_sta+Station~~;$from_sta+
   66 Station;$from_sta+Station~~LOCATION&ToLoc=$dest_sta+Station~~;$dest_sta+
   67 Station;$dest_sta+Station~~LOCATION&Time=$now_time&Date=$now_date"
   68 
   69 if [ $print_url == '1' ]
   70 then
   71  echo $url
   72 fi
   73 
   74 echo
   75 echo "From: $from_sta Station"
   76 echo "Dest: $dest_sta Station"
   77 echo "Time: $(echo $now_time | sed 's/\%3A/:/g')"
   78 echo "Date: $(echo $now_date | sed 's/\%2F/\//g')"
   79 echo
   80 
   81 lynx -dump $url | grep 'Option \([0-9]\+\)\|Arr:\|Dep:'
   82 
   83 echo