Scrape of TransitFeeds.com API

Metadata about GTFS and GTFS Realtime feeds scraped from the TransitFeeds/OpenMobilityData API.

Collected data

• all feed metadata in a single JSON file
• all feed version metadata in a single JSON file
• list of URLs to download archived feed versions from S3

Instructions for running the scraping scripts

1. Get an API key from https://transitfeeds.com/api/ and provide it in an environment variable called TRANSITFEEDS_API_KEY
2. pipenv install
3. Download all pages of getFeeds and getFeedVersions endpoints: python scrape-transitfeeds.py get
4. Merge together JSON files for each page: python scrape-transitfeeds.py merge
5. Get direct S3 download URLs for feed versions python scrape-transitfeeds.py s3urls

License

All of OpenMobilityData's metadata, including the API and site contents, are made available under Creative Commons CC0 (CC0).

according to https://transitfeeds.com/about accessed on 27 August 2021.

See also

• Transitland platform to browse most of these feeds and query their contents using APIs
• Mobility Database under development by MobilityData