imclab / eastbourne-2013-tide-times-parser

Extracts tide times from Eastbourne's 2013 tide times PDF and returns them in a usable JSON format.

eastbourne-2013-tide-times-parser

Extracts tide times from Eastbourne's 2013 tide times PDF and returns them in a usable JSON format.

This is a Perl script to iterate over the PDF tide tides for 2013 from Eastbourne.gov.uk when cut and pasted out into a text file.

JSON Data

This returns the data in a usable JSON format like this...

[
	{
		"highlow" : "L",
		"height" : "0.5m",
		"datetime" : "2013-12-31T16:30:00"
	},
	{
		"highlow" : "H",
		"height" : "7.2m",
		"datetime" : "2013-12-31T22:36:00"
	}
]

Original Data

The PDF file to cut and paste from can be found here.

http://www.eastbourne.gov.uk/EasysiteWeb/getresource.axd?AssetID=163451&type=full&servicetype=Inline

Usage

perl tide.pl < tides.txt