Live Subway

Live Subway is a project to provide real-time visualization of the NYC subways, using the real-time MTA data feeds, written with Flask and Mapbox GL JS.

API endpoint: http://datamine.mta.info/files/[key]/gtfs

MTA .proto Files

1. Download: Google GTFS Realtime Proto
2. Download: MTA Subway Proto (remove the .txt extension)

Environment Setup

1. Download: protoc-[version]-[OS].zip from the list of latest Protobuf releases.
2. go into [unzipped_dir]/bin
3. move protoc binary into $PATH
4. run protoc --python_path=[WORKING_DIRECTORY] gtfs-realtime.proto
5. run protoc --python_path=[WORKING_DIRECTORY] nyct-subway.proto
6. create API_KEY.py add the line key = APIKEY
7. create a static_transit directory in root directory and add the static .txt files there
8. run python scripts/static_to_json.py
9. run python app.py and point browser to localhost:5000 to test success