Django app for managing data from the Bixi public bicycle sharing system.

It supports multiple cities out of the box.

Getting started

Requirements for django-bixi:

• django-tastypie
• south (required if you plan on using the migrations)

These requirements are expressed in the requirements.txt file and may be installed by running the following command (from within a virtual environment):

pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

django-bixi ships with throttling built in. The following options have to be set in your project's settings.py, as per the documentation: http://django-tastypie.readthedocs.org/en/latest/throttling.html#throttle-options

• BIXI_THROTTLE_AT
• BIXI_TIMEFRAME
• BIXI_EXPIRATION

Usage

From within your project's urls, expose the API resources of your choice as per django-tastypie's documentation at http://django-tastypie.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorial.html#adding-to-the-api

Management command

The updatestations management command allows you to create and update the stations for the city codes passed as arguments separated by a space. Run it through cron to keep your data synchronized.

Initial data

Upon running syncdb, cities that expose their bike stations data will be automatically inserted into the database. For the moment, only the following cities are included:

• Boston
• London
• Melbourne
• Minneapolis
• Montreal
• Ottawa
• San Francisco Bay Area
• Toronto
• Washington