hafas-client

A client for HAFAS public transport APIs. Sort of like public-transport-enabler, but with a smaller scope. It contains customisations for several public transportation networks

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) 1.2.0. Endpoint-specific customisations (called profiles here) increase the quality of the returned data.

Installing

npm install hafas-client

with react-native

hafas-client as well its dependencies use Node-builtin modules and Node globals. To be able to use it within react-native, follow the instructions at node-libs-react-native.

Usage

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

// create a client with the Deutsche Bahn profile
const client = createClient(dbProfile, 'my-awesome-program')

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

journeys() returns a Promise that will resolve with an object with an array journeys that contains one FPTF journey.

{
	journeys: [ {
		origin: {
			type: 'station',
			id: '8089100',
			name: 'Berlin Jungfernheide (S)',
			location: { /* … */ },
			products: { /* … */ }
		},
		departure: '2019-12-17T17:05:30+01:00',
		departureDelay: 30,
		departurePlatform: '5',

		destination: {
			type: 'station',
			id: '8000261',
			name: 'München Hbf',
			location: { /* … */ },
			products: { /* … */ }
		},
		arrival: '2019-12-17T22:44:00+01:00',
		arrivalDelay: -60,
		arrivalPlatform: '11A',

		legs: [ {
			id: '1|100067|48|81|17122017',
			line: {
				type: 'line',
				id: '41172',
				name: 'S 41',
				public: true,
				mode: 'train',
				product: 'suburban',
				operator: {
					type: 'operator',
					id: 's-bahn-berlin-gmbh',
					name: 'S-Bahn Berlin GmbH'
				}
			},
			direction: 'Ringbahn ->',

			origin: {
				type: 'station',
				id: '8089100',
				name: 'Berlin Jungfernheide (S)',
				location: {
					type: 'location',
					latitude: 52.530291,
					longitude: 13.299451
				},
				products: { /* … */ }
			},
			departure: '2019-12-17T17:05:30+01:00',
			departureDelay: 30,
			departurePlatform: '5',

			destination: {
				type: 'station',
				id: '8089118',
				name: 'Berlin Beusselstraße'
				/* … */
			},
			arrival: '2019-12-17T17:08:00+01:00',
			arrivalDelay: null,
			arrivalPlatform: '2a-b'
		},
		/* more legs… */
		{
			walking: true,
			public: true,

			origin: {
				type: 'station',
				id: '730749',
				name: 'Berlin Hauptbahnhof (S+U), Berlin'
				/* … */
			},
			departure: '2019-12-17T17:25:00+01:00',
			departureDelay: null,

			destination: {
				type: 'station',
				id: '8098160',
				name: 'Berlin Hbf (tief)'
				/* … */
			},
			arrival: '2019-12-17T17:33:00+01:00',
			arrivalDelay: null
		}, {
			id: '1|70906|0|81|17122017',
			line: { /* … */ },
			direction: 'München Hbf',

			origin: {
				type: 'station',
				id: '8098160',
				name: 'Berlin Hbf (tief)'
				/* … */
			},
			departure: '2019-12-17T17:35:00+01:00',
			departureDelay: -120,
			departurePlatform: '1',

			destination: {
				type: 'station',
				id: '8000261',
				name: 'München Hbf',
				/* … */
			},
			arrival: '2019-12-17T22:44:00+01:00',
			arrivalDelay: -60,
			arrivalPlatform: '11A'
		} ],
		price: {
			amount: null,
			hint: 'No pricing information available.'
		}
		/* … */
	} ]
	/* … */
}

API

API documentation

supported networks/endpoints

hafas-client has built-in customisations (called "profiles") for these public transportation networks:

HAFAS endpoint	wrapper library	docs	example code	source code
Deutsche Bahn (DB)	db-hafas	docs	example code	src
Berlin & Brandenburg public transport (VBB)	vbb-hafas	docs	example code	src
Berlin public transport (BVG)	bvg-hafas	docs	example code	src
Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB)	oebb-hafas	docs	example code	src
Nahverkehr Sachsen-Anhalt (NASA)/INSA	insa-hafas	docs	example code	src
Nahverkehrsverbund Schleswig-Holstein (NAH.SH)	nahsh-hafas	docs	example code	src
Austin, Texas (CMTA/CapMetro)	-	docs	example code	src
S-Bahn München	-	docs	example code	src
Saarfahrplan/VGS (Saarland)	-	docs	example code	src
Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois (CFL)	-	docs	example code	src
Hamburg public transport (HVV)	-	docs	example code	src
Nordhessischer Verkehrsverbund (NVV) (Hesse)	-	docs	example code	src
DB Busradar NRW (DB Regio Bus)	-	docs	example code	src

There are also libraries that use hafas-client and pass their own profile in:

HAFAS endpoint	library
Betriebsstellen & disturbances in the German rail network	db-netz-hafas

Related

• public-transport-enabler – Unleash public transport data in your Java project.
• 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.
• observe-hafas-client – Observe all departures/arrivals/etc. returned by hafas-client.
• cached-hafas-client – Pass in a hafas-client instance, cache data from it.
• hafas-client-rpc – Make JSON-RPC calls to hafas-client via WebSockets & stdio.
• hafas-client-health-check – Check if a hafas-client instance and its endpoint work.
• 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.
• hafas-collect-departures-at – Utility to collect departures, using any HAFAS client.
• hafas-monitor-trips – Using a HAFAS client, watch all trips in a bounding box.
• hafas-monitor-departures – Pass in a HAFAS client, fetch all departures at any set of stations.
• hafas-record-delays – Record delays from hafas-monitor-departures into a LevelDB.
• hafas-monitor-journeys – Use hafas-client to monitor journeys from A to B.
• hafas-discover-stations – Pass in a HAFAS client, discover stations by querying departures.
• hafas-estimate-station-weight – Pass in a HAFAS client, estimate the importance of a station.

Contributing

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