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YouBike Live

DATE January 2025
DOMAIN Data Engineering, Live Maps
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YouBike Live tracks the availability of Taipei’s public bike-sharing stations in real time. A Python scraper polls the YouBike API on a schedule, persists records to a SQLite database, and exposes the data through a lightweight REST API. The frontend renders all active stations on an interactive Leaflet map with live counts.

Components

  • Scraper — Python script polling the YouBike TDX feed, writing deltas to SQLite
  • Database — SQLite with time-series records per station
  • API — lightweight endpoint layer serving current station state
  • Frontend — Leaflet map with per-station markers, availability counts, and Chart.js history sparklines

Tech Stack

  • Python (scraper, API)
  • SQLite
  • Cloudflare Workers (edge deployment)
  • Leaflet.js + Chart.js