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#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys

import datetime

import urllib2

import signal

class HeavensAbove:

"""Scrapes data about the ISS from http://heavens-above.com"""

lat = 0

lon = 0

alt = 0

tz = "GMT"

# These defaults are useful for debuging if you're impatient

next_pass = datetime.datetime.today() + datetime.timedelta(0,5)

seconds_to_next_pass = 5

pass_length = 7

def __init__(self, lat, lon, alt, tz):

"""Set the postion and altitude information to values"""

self.lat = lat

self.lon = lon

self.alt = alt

self.tz = tz

def get_passes(self):

"""This gets a web page with predictable output from www.heavens-above.com and parses it for all upcoming ISS passes"""

def remove_chars(s, chars):

"""Useful utility, send it a drity string and a string of characters to strip from the dirty string"""

for c in chars:

s = s.replace(c,"")

return s

today = datetime.datetime.today()

year = today.year

passes_dict = []

# Get the html page from www.heavens-above.com

url = "http://www.heavens-above.com/AllPass1Sat.asp?satid=25544&lat=%f&lng=%f&alt=%0.0f&tz=%s" % (self.lat, self.lon, self.alt, self.tz)

### http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544&lat=51.900254&lng=-2.120078&loc=Cheltenham&alt=100&tz=UCT

#url = "http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544&lat=%f&lng=%f&alt=%0.0f&tz=%s" % (self.lat, self.lon, self.alt, self.tz)

print url

req = urllib2.Request(url)

response = urllib2.urlopen(req)

data = response.read()

#print data

# Strip out tabs, new lines, and other white space

data = remove_chars(data, '\t\n\r')

# Get just the <table> with the data in it from the html

#table_find = r'<table class="standardTable" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" rules="cols">'

#table = data.split(table_find)[1]

table = data.split(r'<table BORDER CELLPADDING=5>')[1]

#print table

table = table.split(r'</table>')[0]

#print table

# Break out each row in the table, skip the first two (just contains metadata)

passes = table.split('<tr>')[3:]

print passes

# Go through each row

for i, apass in enumerate(passes):

# split the row into cells

details = apass.split('<td>')

# parse the data out into variables

date = details[1][-15:-9].strip()

begin_time = details[2][0:8].strip()

begin_alt = details[3][0:2].strip()

begin_az = details[4][0:3].strip()

max_time = details[5][0:8].strip()

max_alt = details[6][0:2].strip()

max_az = details[7][0:3].strip()

end_time = details[8][0:8].strip()

end_alt = details[9][0:2].strip()

end_az = details[10][0:3].strip()

# further parse the date

day = date[0:2]

month = date[3:]

#debug

#print i, date, month, day, begin_time, begin_alt, begin_az, max_time, max_alt, max_az, end_time, end_alt, end_az

# Find the begining and ending dates and turn them into datetime objects

begin_datetime = datetime.datetime.strptime("%d-%s-%s %s" % (year, month, day, begin_time), "%Y-%b-%d %H:%M:%S")

end_datetime = datetime.datetime.strptime("%d-%s-%s %s" % (year, month, day, end_time), "%Y-%b-%d %H:%M:%S")

#debug

#print i, begin_datetime, end_datetime

# Store the data in a list

passes_dict.append({"begin_time": begin_datetime, "end_time": end_datetime})

# Return all the data

return passes_dict

def get_next_pass(self):

"""This will try and get all the upcoming passes from www.heavens-above.com and store the data for upcoming one"""

now = datetime.datetime.today()

try:

# Get all passes

passes = self.get_passes()

# Loop through the passes and find the first upcoming one

for apass in passes:

next_pass = apass["begin_time"]

timedelta = next_pass - now

past = timedelta.days

if past >= 0:

alarm_sleep_time = timedelta.seconds

break

# How long will this pass last?

duration = apass["end_time"] - next_pass

self.next_pass = next_pass

self.seconds_to_next_pass = alarm_sleep_time

self.pass_length = duration.seconds

except:

# I don't know what to do here

print "Time lookup failed!!"

if __name__ == "__main__":

ha = HeavensAbove(51.900254,-2.120078, 100, "UCT")

ha.get_next_pass()

print ha.next_pass

print ha.seconds_to_next_pass