New URLs for GTFS and GTFS-realtime files

[Developer at MBTA]

Hello all,

We are announcing a change to the location of the GTFS and GTFS-realtime files. As we are consolidating our infrastructure, we have a new domain replacing the developer.mbta.com domain. This affects the GTFS and GTFS-realtime files, which were formerly hosted on developer.mbta.com. The new URLs are as follows:

- The GTFS file is at https://cdn.mbta.com/MBTA_GTFS.zip

- The Vehicle Positions file is at https://cdn.mbta.com/realtime/VehiclePositions.pb

- The Trip Updates file is at https://cdn.mbta.com/realtime/TripUpdates.pb

- The Service Alerts file is at https://cdn.mbta.com/realtime/Alerts.pb

The GTFS documentation can be found at https://www.mbta.com/developers/gtfs, and the GTFS-realtime documentation at https://www.mbta.com/developers/gtfs-realtime.

Note that we had previously used cdn.mbtace.com instead of cdn.mbta.com in some locations on the website - both domains are equally valid and will continue to be supported.

Sincerely,

Developer@MBTA

[Izzy Vivian Dupree]

Nice! Do you have any interest in supporting Content-Encoding: gzip, or CORS headers to let web apps use your CDN directly? It's understandable that you might not want to pay for the bandwidth for the latter. Currently I use a caching proxy to add gzip and change the HTTP origin, which I am happy to keep doing.

-Izzy

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[Brian Card]

Also, when will the new domains be live and when are you planning on deprecating the old domains?

On Tuesday, March 20, 2018, Izzy Vivian Dupree <con...@idupree.com> wrote:

Nice! Do you have any interest in supporting Content-Encoding: gzip, or CORS headers to let web apps use your CDN directly? It's understandable that you might not want to pay for the bandwidth for the latter. Currently I use a caching proxy to add gzip and change the HTTP origin, which I am happy to keep doing.

-Izzy

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 9:42 AM Developer at MBTA <deve...@mbta.com> wrote:

Hello all,

We are announcing a change to the location of the GTFS and GTFS-realtime files. As we are consolidating our infrastructure, we have a new domain replacing the developer.mbta.com domain. This affects the GTFS and GTFS-realtime files, which were formerly hosted on developer.mbta.com. The new URLs are as follows:

- The GTFS file is at https://cdn.mbta.com/MBTA_GTFS.zip

- The Vehicle Positions file is at https://cdn.mbta.com/realtime/VehiclePositions.pb

- The Trip Updates file is at https://cdn.mbta.com/realtime/TripUpdates.pb

- The Service Alerts file is at https://cdn.mbta.com/realtime/Alerts.pb

The GTFS documentation can be found at https://www.mbta.com/developers/gtfs, and the GTFS-realtime documentation at https://www.mbta.com/developers/gtfs-realtime.

Note that we had previously used cdn.mbtace.com instead of cdn.mbta.com in some locations on the website - both domains are equally valid and will continue to be supported.

Sincerely,

Developer@MBTA

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[Developer at MBTA]

Izzy,

The CDN does support gzip encoding: if you pass the `Accept-Encoding: gzip` header with your request, the CDN will compress it for you. We'll take a look at including the CORS headers.

Brian,

The new domain is live right now! The old developer.mbta.com URLs will continue to work until July 2018.

Sincerely,

Developer@MBTA

[Developer at MBTA]

Hi folks,

We want to remind everyone that the old URLs for the GTFS and GTFS-Realtime files have changed. The old URLs (underneath developer.mbta.com) will be turned off next month: July 2018.

In order to continue receiving this data, please update your URLs:

- The GTFS file is at https://cdn.mbta.com/MBTA_GTFS.zip

- The Vehicle Positions file is at https://cdn.mbta.com/realtime/VehiclePositions.pb

- The Trip Updates file is at https://cdn.mbta.com/realtime/TripUpdates.pb

- The Service Alerts file is at https://cdn.mbta.com/realtime/Alerts.pb

Thanks!

Developer@MBTA

[Developer at MBTA]

Hi folks,

The old URLs have been removed.

Thanks!

Developer@MBTA

[Eric Hynds]

Does this change affect the Departures.csv file? http://developer.mbta.com/lib/gtrtfs/Departures.csv is now performing a redirect and I can't find the new URL anywhere.

On Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 9:42:16 AM UTC-4, Developer at MBTA wrote:

[Developer at MBTA]

Hi Eric,

Departures.csv was deprecated along with the other feeds on developer.mbta.com earlier this year.

Boarding status information is available from the API in the "status" field of the prediction. 

Track information is currently available in the "track" field of the prediction. Per https://groups.google.com/d/msg/massdotdevelopers/toYQ3siTDF4/7wamtGKhBQAJ this will change on the 23rd, to the "platform_code" field on the stop.

Hope this helps!

Developer@MBTA

[Eric Hynds]

Thanks, that's what I ended up doing. I saw that some of the developer.mbta.com links were deprecated but must have missed Departures.csv.