hafas-client

A client for HAFAS public transport APIs. Sort of like public-transport-enabler, but with a smaller scope. It also contains customisations for the following transport networks:

HAFAS endpoint	wrapper library?	docs	example code	source code
Deutsche Bahn	db-hafas, which has additional features	docs	example code	src
Berlin & Brandenburg public transport	vbb-hafas, which has additional features	docs	example code	src
Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB)	–	docs	example code	src

Background

There's a company called HaCon that sells a public transport management system called HAFAS. It is used by companies all over Europe to serve routing and departure information for apps. All those endpoints are similar, with the same terms and API routes, but have slightly different options, filters and sets of enabled features.

hafas-client contains all logic for communicating with these, as well as serialising from and parsing to Friendly Public Transport Format (FPTF) 1.0.1. Endpoint-specific customisations (called profiles here) increase the quality of the returned data.

Installing

npm install hafas-client

API

• journeys(from, to, [opt]) – get journeys between locations
• journeyLeg(ref, lineName, [opt]) – get details for a leg of a journey
• departures(station, [opt]) – query the next departures at a station
• locations(query, [opt]) – find stations, POIs and addresses
• location(id) – get details about a location
• nearby(location, [opt]) – show stations & POIs around
• radar(query, [opt]) – find all vehicles currently in a certain area

Usage

const createClient = require('hafas-client')
const dbProfile = require('hafas-client/p/db')

// create a client with Deutsche Bahn profile
const client = createClient(dbProfile)

// Berlin Jungfernheide to München Hbf
client.journeys('8011167', '8000261', {results: 1})
.then(console.log)
.catch(console.error)

The returned Promise will resolve with an array of one FPTF journey.

[ {
	legs: [ {
		id: '1|100067|48|81|17122017',
		origin: {
			type: 'station',
			id: '8089100',
			name: 'Berlin Jungfernheide (S)',
			location: {
				type: 'location',
				latitude: 52.530291,
				longitude: 13.299451
			},
			products: { /* … */ }
		},
		departure: '2017-12-17T17:05:00.000+01:00',
		departurePlatform: '5',
		destination: {
			type: 'station',
			id: '8089118',
			name: 'Berlin Beusselstraße',
			location: { /* … */ },
			products: { /* … */ }
		},
		arrival: '2017-12-17T17:08:00.000+01:00',
		arrivalPlatform: '1',
		line: {
			type: 'line',
			id: '41172',
			name: 'S 41',
			public: true,
			mode: 'train',
			product: 'suburban',
			class: 16,
			productCode: 4,
			operator: {
				type: 'operator',
				id: 's-bahn-berlin-gmbh',
				name: 'S-Bahn Berlin GmbH'
			}
		},
		direction: 'Ringbahn ->'
	}, /* … */ {
		origin: {
			type: 'station',
			id: '730749',
			name: 'Berlin Hauptbahnhof (S+U), Berlin',
			location: {
				type: 'location',
				latitude: 52.526461,
				longitude: 13.369378
			},
			products: { /* … */ }
		},
		departure: '2017-12-17T17:25:00.000+01:00',
		destination: {
			type: 'station',
			id: '8098160',
			name: 'Berlin Hbf (tief)',
			location: { /* … */ },
			products: { /* … */ }
		},
		arrival: '2017-12-17T17:33:00.000+01:00',
		mode: 'walking',
		public: true
	}, {
		id: '1|70906|0|81|17122017',
		origin: {
			type: 'station',
			id: '8098160',
			name: 'Berlin Hbf (tief)',
			location: { /* … */ },
			products: { /* … */ }
		},
		departure: '2017-12-17T17:37:00.000+01:00',
		departurePlatform: '1',
		destination: {
			type: 'station',
			id: '8000261',
			name: 'München Hbf',
			location: { /* … */ },
			products: { /* … */ }
		},
		arrival: '2017-12-17T22:45:00.000+01:00',
		arrivalPlatform: '13',
		line: { /* … */ },
		direction: 'München Hbf'
	} ],
	origin: {
		type: 'station',
		id: '8089100',
		name: 'Berlin Jungfernheide (S)',
		location: { /* … */ },
		products: { /* … */ }
	},
	departure: '2017-12-17T17:05:00.000+01:00',
	destination: {
		type: 'station',
		id: '8000261',
		name: 'München Hbf',
		location: { /* … */ },
		products: { /* … */ }
	},
	arrival: '2017-12-17T22:45:00.000+01:00',
	price: {
		amount: null,
		hint: 'No pricing information available.'
	}
} ]

Related

• Friendly Public Transport Format – A format for APIs, libraries and datasets containing and working with public transport data.
• db-hafas – JavaScript client for the DB HAFAS API.
• vbb-hafas – JavaScript client for Berlin & Brandenburg public transport HAFAS API.
• hafas-departures-in-direction – Pass in a HAFAS client, get departures in a certain direction.
• hafas-collect-departures-at – Utility to collect departures, using any HAFAS client.
• hafas-rest-api – Expose a HAFAS client via an HTTP REST API.
• List of european long-distance transport operators, available API endpoints, GTFS feeds and client modules.
• Collection of european transport JavaScript modules.

Contributing

If you have a question, found a bug or want to propose a feature, have a look at the issues page.