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Get real time data from bus eireann?

ciangk · 2015-04-21 15:32:08

Hi does anyone know how to grab information from bus eireann...the cork bus app tells you how long until the bus arrives at the stop but how did that guy get that info? Thanks

21-04-2015 4:32pm

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ciangk

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Hi does anyone know how to grab information from bus eireann...the cork bus app
tells you how long until the bus arrives at the stop but how did that guy get that info?

Thanks

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#2 21-04-2015 5:46pm

hagoonabear

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Whensmybus? It gives real time updates and location

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#3 21-04-2015 8:40pm

ciangk

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Ah he must have grabbed info from there :P Thanks

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#4 21-04-2015 10:09pm

Graham

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Might be worth looking here, an API is always preferable to data scrapers:

http://dublinked.com/datastore/datasets/dataset-300.php

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#5 22-04-2015 12:37pm

Evil Phil

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Graham wrote: »

Might be worth looking here, an API is always preferable to data scrapers:

http://dublinked.com/datastore/datasets/dataset-300.php

Yep * 2.

Scrapers break really easily and can leave you walking on copyright egg shells.

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