do I have to use GRPC?

[Josh Howe]

Hi,

I'm just getting started with this API. It looks like all  the Subway Real-Time Feeds (https://api.mta.info/#/subwayRealTimeFeeds) return binary data. Are there any simple endpoints with real-time train status that return JSON or XML? Thanks. 

[Jon Thornton]

All of the MTA-hosted feeds are GRPC. There are a some tools to convert their feed to different formats though; here's one: https://github.com/jonthornton/MTAPI

[Raschke, Kurt]

Just for the sake of clarity – GTFS-realtime feeds are serialized using Protocol Buffers.  gRPC is an RPC framework which happens to use Protocol Buffers for serialization but is otherwise unrelated to our GTFS-rt feeds, which can be retrieved via HTTP.

 

Kurt Raschke

Senior Director, Subways Coordination and Solutions

MTA New York City Transit

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