York nextbus

nextbus is a simple command line script to check the arrival time of next bus on York, UK. It uses live information grabbed from this webpage. Works like this:

$ nextbus
3 min

For a list of arrivals, pass the verbose flag -v:

$ nextbus -v
Theatre Film & Television [QR/NFC]
Departures for: 25 Sep 2015 at 14:43
Service  Destination                  Stop  Time
66       City Ctr & Rail Stn          opp   14:56
66       City Ctr & Rail Stn          opp   25 min
66       City Ctr & Rail Stn          opp   15:26
66       City Ctr & Rail Stn          opp   55 min

To configure which bus stop you want, edit the line containing BUSSTOP=<code> with the desired bus stop code. The default is 32903631: University of York, Theatre Film & Television, opposite side, bound to the city center.

To know the code of your bus stop, just scan the QR code located there.

Dependencies

• bash, grep and sed, which probably you have installed;
• links, a text WWW browser. Install with apt-get install links or pacman -S links.

Notice

When using the script inside a widget or by your window manager, try to call it in intervals larger than a minute so you don't overload the server.

You can use ched tool to make subsequent calls to nextbus cached:

ched -t 60 nextbus

By running line above you'll never exceed a request per minute on the server.

Known bugs

This readme is longer than the code.