knightking123 / python-script

Travel time calculator

Hello! Command-line lover, who wants to use the web browser to know how long it will take between two locations when you have this great command-line script to do that? Nobody, right? Congratulations, you will no longer need to leave your beloved terminal for this.

What does the script do?

The script calculates the time it will take you to go from location A to location B. You can choose between bicycling, driving or walking.

Installing the dependencies

googlemaps package

This script require the googlemaps package. To install this package, do:

$> pip3 install googlemaps

If you have any issues with permission, consider using sudo.

Getting your GoogleMaps API key

From your browser

Visit the google maps direction API website and click on get a key on the top right corner. Then follow the instructions and copy your key into the script here:

# (API key) : Google maps API key
GOOGLE_MAP_API_KEY = 'myawsomeapikey'

From your console

• Go to the Google API Console.

• Create or select a project.

• Click Continue to enable the API and any related services.

• On the Credentials page, get an API key. Note: If you have an existing unrestricted API key, or a key with browser restrictions, you may use that key.

• From the dialog displaying the API key, select Restrict key to set a browser restriction on the API key.

• In the Key restriction section, select HTTP referrers (web sites), then follow the on-screen instructions to set referrers.

How to use it

First, clone this repository:

$> git clone https://github.com/RaiVaibhav/python-script.git
$> cd python-script/

Then:

$> python3 Get_travel_time_between_two_location.py