WWW:LiveDepartureBoards - presents an OO interface to the National Rail Live Departure Boards (LDB's) Website (http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk).
Queries and then screenscrapes the LDB's website, making a guess as to what day the given arrival or departure time is on and constructing a DateTime object as part of the details returned. Can also filter by the stations you are interested in.
Takes a 3 letter station code such as PNE (Penge East) and returns the corresponding object. You can find out what your local station's code is by visiting the website mentioned above.
Returns an array of hashes with arrival details as follows,
origin - the origin of the train
time - time in the form of 'hh:mm'
datetime - a DateTime object that has been tied to the best guess of
what day the train arrives/departs on
status - the status of the train
Also a reference to a list can be supplied that will act as a filter.
Returns an array of hashes with departure details as follows,
destination - the origin of the train
time - time in the form of 'hh:mm'
datetime - a DateTime object that has been tied to the best guess of
what day the train arrives/departs on
status - the status of the train
Also a reference to a list can be supplied that will act as a filter.
Returns an array of hashes with departure details as follows,
station_code - the final destination name of the train
time - time in the form of 'hh:mm'
datetime - a DateTime object that has been tied to the best guess of
what day the train arrives/departs on
status - the status of the train
Greg McCarroll <greg@mccarroll.org.uk> Adam Trickett <adam.trickett@iredale.net>
Copyright 2005-2007 Greg McCarroll. All Rights Reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
