Cityrail Service Interruptions on Twitter

UPDATE 2 27/Jul/2008: Given up on twitter feed, there is just too much delay. Moved to using a custom script to monitor for service interruptions. You should have noticed improved performance over the last week or so.

UPDATE 18/Jun/2008: Have been noticing some delays with twitterfeed posting updates from Cityrail. I’m investigating it and will try to get to the bottom of it soon.

In the spirit of the Sydney Traffic Twitter bot, I’ve hacked together a Cityrail Service Interruption Twitter bot.

Unfortunately Cityrail don’t provide RSS feed for their Service interruption page. So I’ve utilised the neat services of page2rss.com, pipes.yahoo.com, to build a RSS feed for the updates, and finally twitterfeed.com a custom python script to post it on Twitter.

So if you want to keep on top of any Cityrail Service interruptions follow https://twitter.com/sydtrainservice.

Cityrail Service Interruption Twitter App.