De lijn

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De Lijn is the main public transport operator in Flanders with a fraction of its network in Brussels. It publishes a GTFS feed which is used to provide the schedule of the vehicles and a GTFS-RT feed which is used to provide real-time data.

Source

Endpoints

Gtfs

/de-lijn/gtfs

GTFS APPLICATION/ZIP

The GTFS zip file of De Lijn

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import gtfs_kit as gk
import requests
import tempfile

url = "https://api.mobilitytwin.brussels/de-lijn/gtfs"

data = requests.get(url,  headers={
        'Authorization': 'Bearer [MY_API_KEY]'
}).content

with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) as f:
    f.write(data)

feed = gk.read_feed(f.name, 'm')

Gtfs realtime

/de-lijn/gtfs-realtime

GTFS-RT APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM

The GTFS-RT binary file of De Lijn

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import requests

from google.transit import gtfs_realtime_pb2

url = "https://api.mobilitytwin.brussels/de-lijn/gtfs-realtime"

data = requests.get(url, headers={
        'Authorization': 'Bearer [MY_API_KEY]'
}).content

feed = gtfs_realtime_pb2.FeedMessage()
feed.ParseFromString(data)