citibike.py

import json
import httplib
import pymongo
from time import sleep

url = 'http://citibikenyc.com/stations/json'
connection = pymongo.Connection()
db = connection['citibike']
collection = db['station_status']

citibike_conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('citibikenyc.com')

for i in range(0, 24*60):
    citibike_conn.request('GET', '/stations/json')
    response = citibike_conn.getresponse()
    data = json.loads(response.read())
    collection.insert(data)
    sleep(1)