clippercard.py

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Copyright (c) 2012 Anthony Wu (@anthonywu)

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imports

import re
from collections import namedtuple
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third-party libs

import requests
from pyquery import PyQuery # requires lxml
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a fake user agent to make the access sessions look human-driven

FAKE_USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.95 Safari/537.11'
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Text Utilities

WHITESPACE = re.compile('\s+')
NOT_DIGITS = re.compile('\D')
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clean up junk whitespace that comes with every table cell

def cleanup_whitespace(text_content):
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    return re.sub(WHITESPACE, ' ', text_content.strip())
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clean up junk content that comes from the web site's card serial number table cell

def cleanup_card_serial_number(card_num_content):
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    return re.sub(NOT_DIGITS, '', card_num_content)
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Simple objects for Clipper Card logic

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a card has a serial number, a type of {Adult, Senior, Youth, Disabled Discount} and status of {Active, Inactive}

Card = namedtuple('Card', ['serial_number', 'type', 'status'])
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an account has a dict of personal detail key-value pairs, and can be associated with multiple cards

Account = namedtuple('Account', ['personal_details', 'cards'])
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a cash card as a 'valid_for' float value, a pass has an 'expires_on' date

Balance = namedtuple('Balance', ['product', 'valid_for', 'expires_on', 'autoload_options'])
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Parsers for Clipper Card web site content

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Parse https://www.clippercard.com/ClipperWeb/accountManagement.do for cardholder details and card list

def parse_acct_content(acct_html_content):
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    query_acct = PyQuery(acct_html_content)
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the first table on the page contains personal details, the second contains card details

    personal_detail_table, card_table = query_acct('table')[:2]

    personal_details = {}
    for row in personal_detail_table.findall('tr'):
        label_content, data_content = [str(c.text_content()).strip() for c in row.findall('td')[:2]]
        if label_content:
            personal_details[label_content.strip(':')] = cleanup_whitespace(data_content)
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TODO: currently, card parsing logic assumes existence of only one card in this account

    card_data = {}
    for row in card_table.findall('tr'):
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Note: strangely, card data is provided in unicode

        label_content, data_content = [unicode(c.text_content()).strip() for c in row.findall('td')[:2]]
        if label_content:
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Parse 'Serial Number:', 'Type:', 'Status:' label texts into Card namedtuple keys

            attr = label_content.strip(':').lower().replace(' ', '_')
            val = cleanup_whitespace(data_content)
            if attr == 'serial_number':
                val = str(cleanup_card_serial_number(val))
            card_data[attr] = val

    return Account(
        personal_details=personal_details,
        cards=[Card(**card_data)]
        )
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Parse https://www.clippercard.com/ClipperWeb/cardValue.do response page for a list of balances for one card

def parse_card_balance(balance_html_content):
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    query_balance = PyQuery(balance_html_content)
    value_table = query_balance('table')[0]
    data_rows = value_table.findall('tr')[1:] # discard the header row
    balances = []
    for row in data_rows:
        product, val, autoload_options = [str(c.text_content().strip()) for c in row.findall('td')[:3]]
        if val.startswith('$'):
            valid_for = float(val[1:])
            expires_on = None
        else:
            expires_on = val
            valid_for = None
        if autoload_options == '-':
            autoload_options = None
        balances.append(
            Balance(
                product=product,
                valid_for=valid_for,
                expires_on=expires_on,
                autoload_options=autoload_options
                )
            )
    return balances
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ClipperCardWebSession

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class ClipperCardWebSession(requests.Session):
    LOGIN_URL = 'https://www.clippercard.com/ClipperWeb/login.do'
    BALANCE_URL = 'https://www.clippercard.com/ClipperWeb/cardValue.do?cardNumber=%s'
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    class InvalidLogin(Exception):
        pass
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    def __init__(self):
        requests.Session.__init__(self, headers={
                'User-Agent': FAKE_USER_AGENT
                })
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    def login(self, username, password):
        form_data = {
            'username': username,
            'password': password
            }
        resp = self.post(self.LOGIN_URL, data=form_data)
        if not 'Account Management' in resp.content:
            raise self.InvalidLogin('Invalid login info for %s' % username)
        return resp
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    def check_balance(self, card_num):
        resp = self.post(self.BALANCE_URL % card_num)
        return resp
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Utils for human-readable display

ACCT_PRINT_TEMPLATE = '''Cardholder: %(Cardholder)s
Email: %(Email)s
Address: %(Address)s
Phone: %(Phone)s
'''
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def print_acct_info(acct_data, balance_lookup):
    print ACCT_PRINT_TEMPLATE % acct_data.personal_details
    for card in acct_data.cards:
        balances = balance_lookup[card.serial_number]
        print 'Card: %s - %s (%s)' % (card.serial_number, card.type.title(), card.status)
        for b in balances:
            autoload_text = b.autoload_options or 'n/a'
            if b.expires_on:
                print '- %s: Expires on %s, Autoload: %s' % (b.product, b.expires_on, autoload_text)
            if b.valid_for:
                print '- %s: Valid for $%s, Autoload: %s' % (b.product, b.valid_for, autoload_text)
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Main

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import os, getpass
    try:
        auth = {
            'username': os.environ.get('CLIPPER_USERNAME', None) or raw_input('Clipper Card username > '),
            'password': os.environ.get('CLIPPER_PASSWORD', None) or getpass.unix_getpass('Clipper Card password > ')
        }
        session = ClipperCardWebSession()
        login_resp = session.login(**auth)
        acct = parse_acct_content(login_resp.content)
        balance_lookup = {} # a map of serial_number --> list of balances
        for c in acct.cards:
            resp = session.check_balance(c.serial_number)
            balance_lookup[c.serial_number] = parse_card_balance(resp.content)
        print_acct_info(acct, balance_lookup)
    except Exception, e:
        print e.message