citibike_trips

Python module to get personal trip history from Citibike website.

Install

Not released to PyPi yet.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

from citibike_trips import CitibikeTrips
cb = CitibikeTrips(username='XXX', password='XXX', save=True)
cb.get_trips_all()

Output

When executed with save=True the following seven files will be created in the data dir with epoch timestamps:

Trips contains your citibike trip data as it was presented online.

cb_trips_1234567890.csv
cb_trips_1234567890.json

Columns:

start_time
end_time
start_name
end_name
start_points
end_points
points
billed
duration

Trips Full contains trip data with useful lookups. Station names are decorated with geo lon+lat pairs, trip time converted from H:M pairs to total seconds, etc.

cb_trips_full_1234567890.csv
cb_trips_full_1234567890.json

Columns:

account_id
observed
start_time
end_time
start_name
end_name
start_points
end_points
points
billed
duration
start_id
end_id
start_terminal
end_terminal
start_lon
start_lat
end_lon
end_lat
dollars
seconds
start_epoch
end_epoch
start_iso8601
end_iso8601

Account contains profile information. Useful to track days left in membership, lifetime miles, and account balance.

cb_account_1234567890.json

Stations is the raw json station feed. Useful for offline testing and historical station tracking.

cb_stations_1234567890.json

Example

The provided citibike-trips outputs your trips to JSON. It has switches to enable debug output for authentication and html parsing if needed.

usage: citibike-trips [-h] [-u USERNAME] [-p PASSWORD] [-c CONFIG] [-v] [-d] [-r RECENT] [-a] [-b] [-x] [-k KEEP] [-o OUTPUT]

Citibike personal trip history download.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
                        Citibike account username
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        Citibike account password
  -c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
                        Config file
  -v, --verbose         Enable verbose output
  -d, --debug           Enable debug output
  -r RECENT, --recent RECENT
                        Number of recent trip pages down get. Defaults to 1, use 0 for all.
  -a, --account         Show account data instead of trips.
  -b, --bikeangels      Collect Bike Angels stats from profile
  -x, --extended        Enable extended reporting format
  -k KEEP, --keep KEEP  Keep retrieved files in this cache dir
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Output in json or csv

Setup

Put login credentials in ~/.citibike_trips.config.

{"username": "[email protected]", "password": "xxx"}

Thanks

Special thanks to the Citibike program operated by NYC Bike Share. I ride these bikes everyday, sometimes 3-4 trips in a single day.

Please do not abuse their servers with excessive polling. I've read the Citibike TOS http://www.citibikenyc.com/assets/pdf/terms-of-use.pdf and it appears to be OK to do this for personal use.

License

You can check out the full license here

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.