https://github.com/gtracy/madison-transit-api-gtfs
This project is a civic hacking project that makes the Madison Metro bus system more accessible, easier to use, and make the entire riding experience more enjoyable.
The app is currently deployed on Google App Engine.
This application provides access to a free, easy to use, JSON-based web service interface for Madison Metro service. Once you've received a developer token, you have access to the following services:
- Real-time arrival estimates for every route at every stop in the city.
- A list of all stops in a specified route
- The geo-location of any stop in the city
- Search for stops near a specified geo-location
- A list of all routes in the system
There is a second repository that contains some example uses of the API
https://github.com/gtracy/smsmybus-dev
There is a Google Group used for developer discussion
https://groups.google.com/group/smsmybus-dev
You can deploy your own instance for testing or for running your own version of the API, either on the Google infrastructure or locally using the Python SDK dev_appserver. Before deploying, copy config.py-sample to config.py and customize the settings. If you are deploying locally, not using the SMS features, and will not export statistics to Google Docs, you may not need to change anything.
Deploy/run the application, and visit https://baseurl/debug/create/newkey
You will likely need to log in at that time. If running locally, be sure to click on 'Sign in as administrator' to create the key.
That will create your first developer key, 'fixme'. You can go to the Datastore Viewer ( https://localhost:8080/_ah/admin/datastore ) and edit your new key.
Finally, you need to load route data. SMSMyBus crawls the Madison Metro website to load route and stop data. There are detailed instructions on the wiki.
You should now be able to use the API as documented to fetch realtime bus data, substituting your URL for api.smsmybus.com
The App Engine SDK is deprecated so you must use the command line tools. Here's a note for myself to remember the command. :)
gcloud app deploy --project=msn-transit-api --version=FIXME --no-promote
CRON only
gcloud app deploy --project=msn-transit-api ./cron.yaml