Tube/Status¶ ↑

A simple MIT licensed Ruby library to access the status of the London Underground network as returned by the Transport for London API.

Before the API was available this library scraped the data from the TFL website, at the moment the code has been updated to retain mostly the same Ruby API, while calling the new TFL API, rather than scrape the website. In the future this library may change to better match what TFL now make available.

$ gem install tube

require "tube/status"

status = Tube::Status.new

broken_lines = status.lines.select {|line| line.problem?}
broken_lines.collect {|line| line.name}
#=> ["Circle", "District", "Jubilee", "Metropolitan", "Northern"]

status.lines.detect {|line| line.id == :circle}.message
#=> "Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 March, suspended."

closed_stations = status.station_groups["Closed stations"]
closed_stations.collect {|station| station.name}
#=> ["Blackfriars", "Hatton Cross"]

stations = status.station_groups.values.flatten
stations.detect {|station| station.name =~ "hatton"}.message
#=> "Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 March, closed."

status.updated.strftime("%I:%M%p")
#=> "04:56PM"

status.reload
status.updated.strftime("%I:%M%p")
#=> "05:00PM"