Docs for Realtime Data Feeds

[Zaarib Zabin]

Hello,

I have just found this page: https://api.mta.info/#/. However, I'm not seeing any documentation, are there any? If not, can anyone help me with how to process the response returned from these API calls?

Thank you!

[Grisha Temchenko]

Checkout this page: https://new.mta.info/developers

(link from the bottom of the API page)

[dude]

If you want to do it from scratch, from what I read (I'm no expert by any means) but you have to first parse the GTFS data using  MobilityData/gtfs-realtime-bindings: Language bindings generated from the GTFS Realtime protocol buffer spec for popular languages. (github.com), unless you want to parse that yourself...

Then it will give you a readable object which looks like this: (I just used N Q R W feed as an example)

The stopTimeUpdate has all the data you need, you just have to loop through it and get the arrival times for each stopID

This is a good video on GTFS if you don't know what it is, although I'll be honest i didn't watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OQKHhu1VgQ

If you want a Python library this is a great one:  Andrew-Dickinson/nyct-gtfs: Real-time NYC subway data parsing for humans (github.com) 
I also made a library (￣y▽,￣)╭ [pls try it out =D]  /transitHelper: A Typescript library to make getting MTA data easy (github.com)

Also why does this reply to all... It didn't let me just reply to this post

[Elias Gino Cripotos]

Hello, 

Just chiming in here. Im Elias, GTFS Community Manager at MobilityData. 

For all things GTFS outside of MTA's scope I would recommend taking a look at the newly redesigned GTFS.org.  

• It is now the official canonical documentation website for GTFS as of December 21, 2022
• It is maintained to reflect the latest GTFS information extracted from the official repository (google/transit) and aggregates other related repositories. 
• There are many other resources there that could help you out and if you don't find what you need, you can always reach out the community through Github or Slack. 
• The Getting Started section is great for newcomers. I especially enjoy the comprehensive GTFS Features page. 

Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any specific questions related to the standard outside MTA's scope of work.