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balsama/boston-plate-lookup
===========================

Lookup City of Boston tickets by plate number

2023.x-dev(2y ago)01[1 issues](https://github.com/balsama/plate-lookup/issues)gpl-2.0-or-laterHTMLPHP ^8

Since Feb 20Pushed 2y ago1 watchersCompare

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Boston Plate Lookup
===================

[](#boston-plate-lookup)

Lookup outstanding Boston Massachusetts parking tickets by license plate.

```
php ./scripts/lookupPlate.php
```

What?
-----

[](#what)

Boston doesn't make ticket data public. But it does allow you to look up tickets by entering a license plate and the birthday month/day of the registration holder. There doesn't seem to be any rate limiting on the form, so it's easy to brute force it by guessing the birthday month/day (it doesn't even require a year!)

I use it to look up [license plates that show up repeatedly in 311 compliants](https://twitter.com/balsama/status/1465186627257569281) to justify my ire.

Future plans are for a Twitter Bot that will respond with any found tickets when you tweet a license plate at it. But I imagine the City will figure this out before then and implement some sort of rate limiting on the form. 🤷‍♀️

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

This wasn't really meant to be consumed. Look at the `Lookup` class if you're interested. Or:

1. Clone
2. Composer install
3. php ./scripts/lookupPlate.php <plate\_number>

...will get you pretty output. Note that it can take a minute or two to run because we need to brute force the birthday month/day.

###  Health Score

17

—

LowBetter than 6% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity1

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity37

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

1074d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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