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NAME
WWW:LiveDepartureBoards - presents an OO interface to the National Rail Live Departure Boards (LDB's) Website (http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk).
DESCRIPTION
Queries and then screenscrapes the LDB's website, making a guess as to what day the given arrival or departure time is on and constructing a DateTime object as part of the details returned. Can also filter by the stations you are interested in.
METHODS
new({station_code => 'XXX'})
Takes a 3 letter station code such as PNE (Penge East) and returns the corresponding object. You can find out what your local station's code is by visiting the website mentioned above.
arrivals(['Station Name'])
Returns an array of hashes with arrival details as follows,
origin - the origin of the train
time - time in the form of 'hh:mm'
datetime - a DateTime object that has been tied to the best guess of
what day the train arrives/departs on
status - the status of the trainAlso a reference to a list can be supplied that will act as a filter.
departures(['Station Name'])
Returns an array of hashes with departure details as follows,
destination - the origin of the train
time - time in the form of 'hh:mm'
datetime - a DateTime object that has been tied to the best guess of
what day the train arrives/departs on
status - the status of the trainAlso a reference to a list can be supplied that will act as a filter.
destination({station_code => 'XXX'})
Returns an array of hashes with departure details as follows,
station_code - the final destination name of the train
time - time in the form of 'hh:mm'
datetime - a DateTime object that has been tied to the best guess of
what day the train arrives/departs on
status - the status of the trainAUTHOR
Greg McCarroll <greg@mccarroll.org.uk> Adam Trickett <adam.trickett@iredale.net>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2005-2007 Greg McCarroll. All Rights Reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.