Programmatic access to data such as serviceStatus.txt?

[clevercommute]

We have some legacy code which queried 

http://web.mta.info/status/serviceStatus.txt to capture overall Service Status for LIRR and Metro North. 

is that still supported? Is there a better way to get Status for each line? 

[kennet...@gmail.com]

Looks like its still supported and actually recommended here: https://api.mta.info/#/staticFeeds

[Sam Salkin]

We don't support the legacy serviceStatus feed and strongly recommend adopting the GTFS alerts feed. This disaggregates lines from their trunk and provides planned and unplanned disruptions in the same feed.  With the changes we're making to add a consistent headline/details, the legacy feed will likely not present information the correct way.

--Sam

[clevercommute]

When I send this request to lirr-alerts api I get below line status which does not match Metropolitan Transportation Authority info for LIRR. 

Am I misunderstanding something about how this is supposed to work?

suspended
multiple impacts
part suspended
trains rerouted
delays
service change
local to express
express to local
stations skipped
some delays
slow speeds
planned work
good service
on or close
boarding change
weekday service
special schedule
extra service
planned - substitute buses
planned - part suspended
planned - stations skipped
reduced service
special event
no scheduled service
planned - boarding change
saturday schedule
station notice
sunday schedule
weekend schedule

1$headers = ['x-api-key: ______________________]; 

2 $apiUrl = 'https://api-endpoint.mta.info/Dataservice/mtagtfsfeeds/camsys%2Flirr-alerts.json'; 

3 4$curl = curl_init(); 

5 

6 curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_URL, $apiUrl ); 

7 curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 ); 

8 curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); 

9 

10 try { 

11 $results = json_decode(curl_exec($curl), true, 512, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR); 

12 } catch (JsonException $e) { 

13 echo $e; 

14 exit(); 

15 }