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That looks pretty awesome. How do you get your data? Do all those bike sharing services have real-time public APIs that you connect to?


Some have (for instance NYC, kudos to them!), other services do not have anything, and data has to be scraped from their website. Most of the time it's a pain in the ass that involves many different dodgy tricks.

I have a python library available at http://github.com/eskerda/pybikes that unifies all the data from different sources into the same model.


Awesome! Thanks for making that opensource!


Citibike has a json API: http://citibikenyc.com/stations/json




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