Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ``I know, I'll use regular expressions.'' Now they have two problems.
DC Metro status on your iPhone is back!
It's probably been close to a year since the iPhone-optimized DC metro status page Meenster.com vanished from the scene (it now resolves to a blank page.) For those of us who ride the metro regularly, knowing when the next train will arrive before you enter the station is a major convenience -- especially given last month's tragic metro collision and subsequent service disruption.
Well, wait no longer - the DC metro on your iPhone is back!
http://echodittolabs.org/wmata
With fabled AT&T coverage coming in October, you'll never miss a train again.
And now for the nerdy details:
We're not using any of WMATA's APIs or feeds, but rather just old fashioned screen scraping using regex. Since the train status pages on wmata.com are already pretty handsome, I elected just to scrape out the body and wrap it in Joe Hewitt's excellent iPhone CSS.
Suggestions, complaints? Drop me a note!
Comments
Dc Metro probably just wanted to create this iphone app to make sure customers are aware that they can indeed check on their phone for train schedules since it was delayed quite a bit.