db-vendo-client/docs/db-apis.md

New DB Board and Route Planning APIs (beyond HAFAS and IRIS)

(Beware that a DB journey is what you usually call a trip (a vehicle travelling at a certain time) and a DB trip is what you usually call a journey (result of a route search from A to B).)

RIS::Boards

https://apis.deutschebahn.com/db/apis/ris-boards/v1/public/

EPs:

• departures/
• arrivals/

Notes:

• docs (also helpful for other RIS-based APIs below): https://developers.deutschebahn.com/db-api-marketplace/apis/product/ris-boards-transporteure/api/ris-boards-transporteure#/RISBoards_151/overview
• needs an API Key
• provides remarks
• does not provide loadFactor
• no route planning
• uses RIS trip IDs
• boards up to 12 hours

bahnhof.de RIS

https://www.bahnhof.de/api/boards/departures?evaNumbers=8000105&filterTransports=BUS&duration=60&locale=de

Notes:

• no API Key needed
• provides remarks
• uses RIS trip IDs
• no route planning
• boards up to 6 hours, only from current time (or unknown parameter)

Regio Guide RIS

https://regio-guide.de/@prd/zupo-travel-information/api/public/ri/

EPs:

• departure/8000105?modeOfTransport=HIGH_SPEED_TRAIN,REGIONAL_TRAIN,CITY_TRAIN,INTER_REGIONAL_TRAIN,UNKNOWN,BUS,TRAM,SUBWAY&timeStart=2024-12-11T15:08:25.678Z&timeEnd=2024-12-12T01:53:25.678&expandTimeFrame=TIME_END&&occupancy=true
• board/arrival/
• routing-search (with POST body, see regio-guide.de)
• trip/
• journey/

Notes:

• no API Key needed
• no remarks in boards (or with unknown param), only some in journey
• cancelled trips are completely missing from boards (?)
• uses RIS trip IDs, does not expose them directly in the routing-search response
• loadFactor for some regional services, not for long distance services
• boards up to 12 hours

Vendo Navigator API

https://app.vendo.noncd.db.de/mob/

EPs:

• bahnhofstafel/abfahrt
• bahnhofstafel/ankunft
• location/search
• angebote/fahrplan (for route planning)
• zuglauf
• zuglaeufe/ICE_947/halte/by-abfahrt/8000207_2024 (coach sequence)
• angebote/recon/autonomereservierung (prices)

Notes:

• see traffic dumps
• no API Key needed
• used by new DB Navigator
• HAFAS trip IDs
• boards only 1 hour (or unknown param)
• does not contain machine-readable cancelled info in the boards (only "Halt entfällt" string), but contains relevant remarks
• loadFactor only on journeys (?)

Vendo bahn.de API

https://int.bahn.de/web/api/

EPs:

• angebote/fahrplan (for route planning)
• reiseloesung/orte
• reiseloesung/orte/nearby

Notes:

• no API Key needed
• uses HAFAS trip IDs
• provides loadFactor
• no boards (?)