In order to calculate commute time from a given property to work, I created this script, which copies Spareroom property lat,lng system clipboard. Works on os x only. Usage: ruby commute_time.rb -i SPAREROOM_PROPERTY_ID

commute_time.rb

require "open-uri"
require "nokogiri"
require "optparse"

BASE_URI = "http://www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/flatshare_detail.pl?flatshare_id="

options = {}

optparse = OptionParser.new do |opts|
  opts.banner = "Usage: #$0 -i ROOMID"

  opts.on "-i", "--id ROOMID", "SPAREROOM room ID" do |room_id|
    options[:room_id] = room_id
  end

  opts.on "-h", "--help", "Show usage" do |help|
    warn opts
    exit
  end
end

optparse.parse!

if options[:room_id].nil?
  warn "No room id found"
  exit
end

def generate_url_for_room(id)
  BASE_URI + id
end

def lat_lng(doc)
  lat, lng = doc.search("script")[-3].content.scan(/(-?\d+.\d+)/)
  "#{lat.first},#{lng.first}"
end

def pbcopy(input)
  str = input.to_s
  IO.popen('pbcopy', 'w') { |f| f << str }
  str
end

room_url = generate_url_for_room(options[:room_id])
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(room_url))

pbcopy lat_lng(doc)