paddington-eurostar/scraper/realtime_trains.py
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-25 21:48:53 +01:00

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"""
Scrape direct trains between a selected station and London Paddington using
Realtime Trains.
Two fetches:
BRI/to/PAD → departure times from Bristol (div.time.plan.d)
PAD/from/BRI → arrival times at Paddington (div.time.plan.a)
Matched by train ID (div.tid).
"""
import re
from typing import Any
import httpx
import lxml.html # type: ignore[import-untyped]
_TO_PAD_TMPL = (
"https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/"
"gb-nr:{crs}/to/gb-nr:PAD/{date}/0000-2359"
"?stp=WVS&show=pax-calls&order=wtt"
)
_PAD_FROM_TMPL = (
"https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/"
"gb-nr:PAD/from/gb-nr:{crs}/{date}/0000-2359"
"?stp=WVS&show=pax-calls&order=wtt"
)
_PAD_TO_TMPL = (
"https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/"
"gb-nr:PAD/to/gb-nr:{crs}/{date}/0000-2359"
"?stp=WVS&show=pax-calls&order=wtt"
)
_FROM_PAD_TMPL = (
"https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/"
"gb-nr:{crs}/from/gb-nr:PAD/{date}/0000-2359"
"?stp=WVS&show=pax-calls&order=wtt"
)
DEFAULT_UA = (
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 "
"(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
)
def _browser_headers(user_agent: str) -> dict[str, str]:
return {
"User-Agent": user_agent,
"Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8",
"Accept-Language": "en-GB,en;q=0.9",
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
"Connection": "keep-alive",
"Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1",
"Sec-Fetch-Dest": "document",
"Sec-Fetch-Mode": "navigate",
"Sec-Fetch-Site": "none",
"Sec-Fetch-User": "?1",
}
def _fmt(hhmm: str) -> str:
"""Convert '0830''08:30'."""
hhmm = re.sub(r"[^0-9]", "", hhmm)
if len(hhmm) == 4:
return f"{hhmm[:2]}:{hhmm[2:]}"
return hhmm
def _parse_services(html: str, time_selector: str) -> dict[str, str]:
"""Return {train_id: time_string} from a servicelist page."""
root = lxml.html.fromstring(html)
sl = root.cssselect("div.servicelist")
if not sl:
return {}
result = {}
for svc in sl[0].cssselect("a.service"):
tid_els = svc.cssselect("div.tid")
time_els = svc.cssselect(time_selector)
if tid_els and time_els:
tid = tid_els[0].text_content().strip()
time_text = time_els[0].text_content().strip()
if time_text:
result[tid] = _fmt(time_text)
return result
def _parse_arrivals(html: str) -> dict[str, dict[str, str]]:
"""Return {train_id: {'time': ..., 'platform': ...}} from an arrivals page."""
root = lxml.html.fromstring(html)
sl = root.cssselect("div.servicelist")
if not sl:
return {}
result = {}
for svc in sl[0].cssselect("a.service"):
tid_els = svc.cssselect("div.tid")
time_els = svc.cssselect("div.time.plan.a")
if not (tid_els and time_els):
continue
time_text = time_els[0].text_content().strip()
if not time_text:
continue
plat_els = svc.cssselect("div.platform")
platform = plat_els[0].text_content().strip() if plat_els else ""
result[tid_els[0].text_content().strip()] = {
"time": _fmt(time_text),
"platform": platform,
}
return result
def fetch(
date: str, user_agent: str = DEFAULT_UA, station_crs: str = "BRI"
) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Fetch trains from station_crs to PAD."""
headers = _browser_headers(user_agent)
with httpx.Client(headers=headers, follow_redirects=True, timeout=30) as client:
r_bri = client.get(_TO_PAD_TMPL.format(crs=station_crs, date=date))
r_pad = client.get(_PAD_FROM_TMPL.format(crs=station_crs, date=date))
departures = _parse_services(r_bri.text, "div.time.plan.d")
arrivals = _parse_arrivals(r_pad.text)
trains = [
{
"depart_bristol": dep,
"arrive_paddington": arrivals[tid]["time"],
"arrive_platform": arrivals[tid]["platform"],
"headcode": tid,
}
for tid, dep in departures.items()
if tid in arrivals
]
return sorted(trains, key=lambda t: t["depart_bristol"])
def fetch_to_paddington(
date: str, user_agent: str = DEFAULT_UA, station_crs: str = "BRI"
) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Fetch trains from station_crs to PAD using generic field names."""
return [
{
**train,
"depart_origin": train["depart_bristol"],
"arrive_paddington": train["arrive_paddington"],
"arrive_platform": train.get("arrive_platform", ""),
"headcode": train.get("headcode", ""),
}
for train in fetch(date, user_agent, station_crs)
]
def fetch_from_paddington(
date: str, user_agent: str = DEFAULT_UA, station_crs: str = "BRI"
) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Fetch trains from PAD to station_crs."""
headers = _browser_headers(user_agent)
with httpx.Client(headers=headers, follow_redirects=True, timeout=30) as client:
r_pad = client.get(_PAD_TO_TMPL.format(crs=station_crs, date=date))
r_station = client.get(_FROM_PAD_TMPL.format(crs=station_crs, date=date))
departures = _parse_services(r_pad.text, "div.time.plan.d")
arrivals = _parse_arrivals(r_station.text)
trains = [
{
"depart_paddington": dep,
"arrive_destination": arrivals[tid]["time"],
"arrive_platform": arrivals[tid]["platform"],
"headcode": tid,
}
for tid, dep in departures.items()
if tid in arrivals
]
return sorted(trains, key=lambda t: t["depart_paddington"])