Bus Departures

Display bus departures for specific routes on specific stops.

Usage:

./busdepartures -c=CONFIGFILE [ -p=PORT]

Configuration

The configuration file describes the list of quays (or stops) and the routes for each quay that you're interested in. Each quay in your configuration should look something like this:

[[quays]]
id = "NL:Q:40004001"
name = "Centraal Station"
town = "Arnhem"
routes_of_interest = [
    {"short_name" = "51", "long_name" = "Wageningen"},
    {"short_name" = "352", "long_name" = "Wageningen"},
]

Note that the [[quay]] syntax is TOML's way of describing a list, meaning you can keep repeating the example above in your configuration to add multiple quays. If you would like an example, see the config.toml.example file. It lists multiple quays.

Finding the information required for configuration

1. Open the Connexxion halte-informatie page.
2. Open your browser's developer tooling and go to the 'network' tab.
3. Search for your stop on the website and open it.
4. In the network tab, there should be a request labeled 'departures'. Open it.

The response is in JSON format and contains all the information you need.

• The quay ID is almost exactly the stopid, just replace the :S: with :Q:.
• The name and town are just below the quay ID.
• All the route information you'll need is available in the departures key.
  • departures.X.tripdata.route.route_short_name is what you'll enter as the short_name.
  • departures.stop_headsign is what you'll enter as the long_name.

And that's it. Add the information you found to your config.toml, as described above and start the application.