NextBus XML Data Feed
From Robertjd
Instructions from sfmta.com
SF muni has released instructions on how to use the NextBus XML feed. Their instructions are more complete than mine:
http://www.sfmta.com/cms/asite/nextmunidata.htm
This information is within the context of the San Francisco Municipal Railway feed.
URL format
The base URL is:
http://www.nextmuni.com/s/COM.NextBus.Servlets.XMLFeed?
Possible parameters:
- command=
(required) possible values:
- vehicleLocations
- Get a list of vehicle locations. Requires
- routeConfig
- returns stop locations, direction definitions, and route paths
- predictionsForMultiStops
- used to ask for arrival predictions for a stop. stops must be specified with the stops parameter
- a=
(required) The agency name of the transit agency. In the case of SF, this is sf-muni
- t=
"last time", not sure what this is but I always set it to 0
- r=
the route tag of the specific route you want to inquire about
- stops=
Used to request one or more stops. the format is an array like so:
route|dirtag|stopid
dirtag can be empty to get all directions for a given route at a given stop. For example:
&stops=38|null|GEARMSI1&stops=38|null|GEARPRE0
will give you all directions of the 38 bus for those two stops. Also note that trying to limit by dirtag doesnt always seem to actually work.
