>>>>> "Russell" == Russell Senior <[email protected]> writes:

>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> writes:
Keith> [...] Having the schedules on my laptop rather than on the other
Keith> end of a web interface means I can access them more quickly.
Keith> Trimet's general interface is less efficent for specific needs.

Russell> The one suggestion I would make is to download something other
Russell> than PDFs, which, in general, require a human to look at and
Russell> interpret.  Surely, there is a more easily parsable format, so
Russell> that your script could compute (based on the current time,
Russell> walking time to stop, etc) which stop you should go to.

Have a look here:

  http://developer.trimet.org/

which I found by googling: trimet api

Although there is a lot of focus on live transit tracking data, because
it is sexy and cool, it looks like there are interfaces to the time
tables as well and you can ignore the bits you don't want for your
application.


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