SYNOPSIS
- efa --from city stop --to city stop [ additional options ]
- efa [ options ] from-city from-stop [ via-city via-stop ] to-city to-stop
VERSION
version 2.14DESCRIPTION
efa is a command line client for the <http://efa.vrr.de> web interface. It sends the specified information to the online form and displays the results.It also supports other EFA services than <http://efa.vrr.de>. efa has a builtin list of EFA entry points which can be probed with the -A and -D options and listed with -l. You can also specify a custom service using -u url or -s name. However, the default EFA service is sufficient in most cases (even ICE connections all over Germany).
OPTIONS
- --from city stop
- Departure place
- --to city stop
- Arrival place
- --via city stop
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Travel via this place
In all cases, if you want stop to be an address or ``point of interest'', you can set it to 'addr:something' or 'poi:something'.
- -a|--arrive hh:mm
- Journey end time (overrides --time/--depart)
- -A|--auto-url|--discover-and-print
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Probe all known EFA entry points for the specified connection. Print the first
result which was not an error.
Note that this may take a while and will not necessarily return the best result. Also, using this option by default is not recommended, as it puts EFA services under considerable additional load.
- -b|--bike
- Request connections allowing the passenger to take a bike with them. Note that this may cause efa to display no routes at all --- In that case, the backend was unable to find such connections or didn't know about their bike-support.
- -B|--bike-info
- Show information about bike support, but do not select routes based on it. In essence, this option simply changes the --ignore-info default. It is useful when --bike did not return any routes even though most of the route has bike support.
- -d|--date dd.mm.[yyyy]
- Journey date
- -D|--discover
- Probe all known EFA entry points for the specified connection. No routes are returned in this case. Instead, efa will print the URLs and names of all entry points which did not return an error.
- -u|--efa-url url
- URL to the EFA entry point, defaults to <http://efa.vrr.de/vrr/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2>. Depending on your location, some urls may contain more specific data than others. See Travel::Routing::DE::EFA(3pm) and the -l option for alternatives.
- -e|--exclude transports
-
Exclude transports (comma separated list).
Possible transports: zug, s-bahn, u-bahn, stadtbahn, tram, stadtbus, regionalbus, schnellbus, seilbahn, schiff, ast, sonstige
- -E|--extended-info
-
Display more than just the basic route information. At the moment, the
following is displayed (if available):
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- Route duration
- Ticket fare
- transfer duration and elevation changes (via stairs / escalators) at each stop
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- -f|--full-route
- Display intermediate stops (with time and platform) of each train. Note that these are not always available.
- -I|--ignore-info [ regex ]
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Ignore additional information matching regex
(default: /Fahrradmitnahme|Einstiegshilfe/)
If regex is not supplied, removes the default regex (-> nothing will be ignored)
- -i|--include type
-
Include connections using trains of type type, where type may be:
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local (default)
only take local trains (``Verbund-/Nahverkehrslinien''). Slow, but the cheapest method if you're not traveling long distance
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ic
Local trains + IC
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ice
All trains (local + IC + ICE)
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local (default)
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- -l|--list
- List supported EFA services wit their URLs (see -u) and abbreviations (see -s).
- -M|--maps
- Output links to maps of transfer paths and transfer stations where available.
- -m|--max-change number
- Print connections with at most number interchanges
- -n|--num-connections number
- Return up to number connections. If unset, the default of the respective EFA server is used (usually 4 or 5).
- -P|--prefer type
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Prefer connections of type:
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speed (default)
The faster, the better
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nowait
Prefer connections with less interchanges
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nowalk
Prefer connections with less walking (at interchanges)
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speed (default)
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- -p|--proximity [minutes]
- Take stops close to the stop/start into account. By default, up to 10 minutes of walking to/from the route's first/last stop is considered acceptable. You can specify minutes to use a custom value.
- -s|--service name
- Shortname of the EFA entry point. See Travel::Routing::DE::EFA(3pm) and the -l option for a list of services.
- -t|--time|--depart hh:mm
- Journey start time
- --timeout seconds
- Set timeout for HTTP requests. Default: 60 seconds.
- -v|--version
- Print version information
- -w|--walk-speed speed
- Set your walking speed to speed. Accepted values: normal (default), fast, slow
- -x|--accessibility types
-
Request connections satisfying all of the specified accessibility types
(comma-separated list, option may be repeated). Please note that this may cause
the backend to return no results at all, either because no such connection
exists or because the required lines do not have the correct accessibility
attributes set.
The following types are supported:
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- e / no-escalators
- Transfers must be possible without taking an escalator.
- E / no-elevators
- Transfers must be possible without using an elevator.
- i / info
- Does not restrict the requested connections. However, this option causes efa to display additional accessibility information for each route part (where available). When -x w or -x l do not return any connections, using -x i might be more helpful (though it cannot guarantee that any of the results satisfy the respective type).
- l / nf / low-platform
- All vehicles must be low-platform (``Niederflur'').
- s / no-stairs
- Transfers must be possible without stairs (e.g. via escalators/elevators or ramps).
- w / wheelchair
- All vehicles must be wheelchair accessible.
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EXIT STATUS
0 Everything went well 1 Invalid arguments, see error message 2 Network error, unable to send request 3 efa.vrr.de did not return any parsable data 4 efa.vrr.de error: ambiguous input 5 efa.vrr.de error: no connections found 10 Unknown Travel::Routing::DE::EFA error 255 Other internal error
CONFIGURATION
None.EXAMPLES
- efa Do Hbf MH Hbf
- Look up a connection from Dortmund (Do) Hbf to Mu.lheim (MH) Hbf
- efa --include ice Essen Hbf Hamburg Dammtor
- Look up a connection with long-distance trains
- efa --arrive 18:00 -e zug,s-bahn -M E Wickenburgstr D Oststr
- Look up a connection from Essen Wickenburgstr to Du.sseldorf Oststr. Do not use any trains, make sure to arrive around 18:00 and print links to maps of all interchange stations.
- efa -s vvs Stuttgart Hbf Stuttgart Marienplatz
- Use the VVS (Verkehrsverbund Stuttgart) EFA service to look up a connection.
DEPENDENCIES
This script requires perl 5.10 (or higher) with the following modules:- Class::Accessor
- Exception::Class
- LWP::UserAgent
- XML::LibXML
BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
The EFA backend is not able to calculate ``two-way'' routes, i.e. from -> via -> to routes with from == to. If from and to are the same stop, it doesn't even try to calculate a route (``we recommend walking instead''), if they are close to each other it may or may not work. Workaround: Request from -> via using the normal four-argument efa invocation, read the time, use efa -t time via via to to to request via -> to.AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2009-2015 by Daniel Friesel <[email protected]>LICENSE
0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.