routes.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# MetroTransit API
# Corey Maul (chmaul AT gmail DOT com)
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import wsgiref.handlers
from google.appengine.ext import webapp
from google.appengine.api import urlfetch
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
from google.appengine.api import memcache
from django.utils import simplejson as json
from jsonp import jsonp

routeURL = "http://metrotransit.org/Mobile/Nextrip.aspx"

def scrapeRoutes(self) :
    result = urlfetch.fetch(routeURL)
    routes = []
    if (result.status_code == 200):
        soup = BeautifulSoup(result.content)
        links = soup.html.body.findAll(attrs={"class" : "cssLink"})
        select = soup.html.body.find(id="ctl00_mainContent_NexTripControl1_ddlNexTripRoute")
        options = select.findAll('option')
        for x in options:
            routeNum = x['value']
            if routeNum != '0':
                routes.append({
                    'number' : routeNum,
                    'name' : x.string
                })
    return json.dumps(routes, sort_keys=True)


class MainHandler(webapp.RequestHandler):

  def get(self):
    routes = memcache.get("routes")
    if routes is None:
        routes = scrapeRoutes(self)
        memcache.add("routes", routes, 60 * 60 * 24)
    self.response.out.write(jsonp(self.request, routes))
    

def main():
  application = webapp.WSGIApplication([('/routes', MainHandler)],
                                       debug=True)
  wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler().run(application)


if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()