This is a request for a small technical project for someone who knows Javascript.

Boston public transit has changed its web site, mbta.com, so that it is impossible to access bus schedules without running nonfree software. It used to have a "PDF Schedule" button with which you could download a bus line's schedule. But that no longer works.

For instance, the page for bus line 1, mbta.com/schedules/1/line, has a button "Get schedules", but without enabling Javascript that gives an error.

Can someone please develop a script or method to access these PDF files? It could be a simple shell script that uses wget, grep and awk, or simple Javascript program if you can tell me how to run it. Please give it clear comments so I can understand what it does, and if it is more than 8 lines or so put a free license on it.

I will appreciate your work every time I look at a bus schedule.