How to find the last update time or publish time of GTFS Schedule dataset

[David Wu]

I apologize that this is not question about GTFS-RT or it has been discussed in the past.

To avoid unnecessary processing of stale 'static' GTFS Schedule  dataset, I need to find out when a GTFS Schedule dataset was published or last updated.

In some cases, I can check the time stamp of the zip file, but that doesn't work in other cases.

The GTFS Schedule standard does specify a feed_info.txt file, which can be used but it's an optional file and I don't find it in sources I have to deal with.

Thanks,

David

[Stefan de Konink]

"Changed" is a big word. What about the default HTTP methods for this. A
producer would love you to use the Etags to avoid downloading a file
altogether if it has not been modified.

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Stefan

[Leonard Ehrenfried]

Stefan is right. HTTP has ways to tell you if a file has changed. Let me also mention the Last-Modified header: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Last-Modified

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[David Wu]

Thanks Stefan and Leonard.

I currently deal with 2 feeds, one has last-modified header and one doesn't, that was why I asked this question.

Thanks,

David