Bangladesh Railway CLI

CLI for Bangladesh Railway's Ticketing System

Motivation

• Bangladesh Railway's Ticketing System is maintained by Computer Network Systems Limited (CNS) 🙄
• Recently they revamped the whole website and exposed some backend APIs 🥳
• Users no longer need to be logged in to check seat availablity 😬
• Why not build a Python client to do that? 😎

Installation

sudo pip3 install click tabulate
sudo install -m 775 main.py /usr/local/bin/brcli # or anything you prefer

How to Use

Use the search option to list trains by passing the from, to and date parameter. If you do not pass date, the app will use the current date.

$ brcli search --from DA --to RJHI --date 2021-01-20
  Train #  Train Name        Departure Time    Duration            Train Left
---------  ----------------  ----------------  ------------------  ------------
      769  DHUMKATU_EXPRESS  06:00             5 hours 40 minutes  NO
      791  BANALATA_EXPRESS  13:30             5 hours 5 minutes   NO
      753  SILKCITY          14:45             5 hours 50 minutes  NO
      759  PADMA EXPRESS     23:00             5 hours 30 minutes  NO

Once you know the train number, use the seats option to list availablity and price for each classes.

$ brcli seats -f DA -t RJHI -d 2021-01-26 -n 791
Class      Fare (Adult)    Fare (Child)    Counter Seat    Mobile Seat
-------  --------------  --------------  --------------  -------------
AC_S                865             575              22             22
SNIGDHA             725             483              56             55
S_CHAIR             375             250             233            232 

In case you do not know the code for stations, you can use the command from-stations and to-stations.

$ brcli from-stations | head
Code    Station Name
------  ---------------
AUP     ABDULPUR
ACP     ACCALPUR
AHG     AHASANGANG
AKA     AKHAURA
ADG     ALAMDANGA
ASZ     ASHUGANJ
AZPR    AZAMPUR
BMSM    B SIRAJUL ISLAM

$ brcli to-stations --to RJHI | head
Code    Destination Name
------  ------------------
AUP     ABDULPUR
ACP     ACCALPUR
AZGR    AGIMNAGAR
AHG     AHASANGANG
ADG     ALAMDANGA
AIB     AMIRABAD
AUA     AMNURA
ARZ     ARANI

TODO

• Book tickets via CLI