bikeraccoon

A python package that wraps the bikeraccoon API. bikeraccoon is built with Pandas and in most cases returns a Pandas.DataFrame.

Usage

import bikeracccoon as br

# Get a list of available systems:
br.get_systems()

# Connect to API
api = br.LiveAPI('mobi_vancouver')

LiveAPI methods

api.get_stations() Returns a dataframe with information about each station in the bikeshare system.

api.get_system_trips(t1,t2=None,freq='h')

• t1: python datetime instance
• t2: python datetime instance
• freq: How to group results ('h','d','m','y') Returns dataframe with columns "station trips" for trips associated with docking stations, and "free bike trips" for trips associated with free floating bikes.

api.get_station_trips(t1,t2=None,freq='h',station='all')

• t1: python datetime instance
• t2: python datetime instance
• freq: How to group results ('h','d','m','y')
• station: station_id of a station in the system. If station='all', returns data for all stations. Returns long-style dataframe with rows for each timepoint and station

api.get_free_bike_trips(t1,t2=None,freq='h')

• t1: python datetime instance
• t2: python datetime instance
• freq: How to group results ('h','d','m','y') Returns a dataframe with data for free-floating bike trips

The API calls use LRU caching to avoid repeatedly querying the API with the same query.

Twitter bikesharebots

Several twitter bots use this package to generate stats and figures, such as VanBikeShareBot. For an example of this, see the file sample_bikesharebot.py.