Subway real time Feed 2.0 XML ?

[Gururaj K.S.]

Hi,

   I have an android app for the buses and I was planning on extending it to display the subway information. Does the subway feed 2.0 come with xml as well ? Are there any plans of providing an xml feed for the subway real time. Thanks in advance.

Regards

Guru

[Developer at MBTA]

Guru, 

Thanks for your question. There are no plans to provide an xml version of the 2.0 subway feed. We do recognize that at this point we have several different feed formats for different modes, which helped us roll out information quickly but is not ideal for developers to work with. We do have plans to address that in the future. 

Sincerely, 

Developer at MBTA

[Gururaj K.S.]

Thanks for the reply  (I have an xml parser written out , thats why i enquired), as a follow up..

I was wondering if there is a list of subway (for the three lines) stops with the stop id's that you could provide?  The reason I ask is currently there is only predictions information (feed 2.0) and I see no way to parse the subway stop information. Thanks and let me know if there is already a way for this to be accomplished. 

Regards

Guru

[Developer at MBTA]

Guru, 

You may want to use the GTFS files available on the website. Stops are organized on a trip-by-trip level, but you should be able to pull what you're looking for from it. The "Table of platform keys" downloadable under the "Subway Feed 1.0" heading may also be of some limited use, but the stop_id's listed correspond to the id's of the "parent stops" in GTFS, not the "child stops." 

Sincerely, 

Developer at MBTA