aid: onebusaway
name: OneBusAway
description: >-
  OneBusAway is an open-source real-time transit information platform managed
  by the Open Transit Software Foundation. It provides transit riders with
  real-time arrival predictions, service alerts, and schedule data for buses,
  trains, and other transit modes. The platform exposes a RESTful API that
  lets developers access agency information, stop data, route details, trip
  information, real-time arrivals and departures, vehicle positions, and
  service alerts. Authentication uses an API key passed as a query parameter.
  The reference deployment runs at api.pugetsound.onebusaway.org; many transit
  agencies host their own OneBusAway instances using the same API contract.
  Official SDKs are published for Go, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript/Node.js,
  Python, and Ruby, all generated from a shared OpenAPI 3.0 specification in
  the sdk-config repository.
type: Index
position: Provider
access: Open
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Transit
  - Public Transit
  - Real-Time
  - Arrivals
  - Departures
  - Bus
  - GTFS
  - Open Source
  - Stop Data
  - Trip Planning
  - Service Alerts
  - Vehicle Positions
  - Open Data
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/onebusaway/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis:
  - aid: onebusaway:onebusaway-rest-api
    name: OneBusAway REST API
    description: >-
      RESTful web service providing real-time and scheduled transit data for
      agencies running the OneBusAway platform. Endpoints cover agencies with
      coverage, individual agency details, routes, stops, trips, real-time
      arrivals and departures, active vehicle positions, schedule information
      for stops and routes, shape/polyline data, block configuration, search
      for stops and routes by location or name, and user-submitted problem
      reports. Authentication is an API key supplied as the "key" query
      parameter. Responses are available in both JSON and XML; JSON responses
      support an optional JSONP callback parameter. The reference server is
      the Puget Sound deployment at api.pugetsound.onebusaway.org; transit
      agencies can self-host using the open-source application modules.
    humanURL: https://developer.onebusaway.org/api/where
    baseURL: https://api.pugetsound.onebusaway.org
    tags:
      - Transit
      - Real-Time
      - Arrivals
      - Departures
      - Stops
      - Routes
      - Trips
      - Agencies
      - Vehicle Positions
      - Service Alerts
      - Schedule
      - GTFS
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developer.onebusaway.org/api/where
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developer.onebusaway.org/api/where/methods
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developer.onebusaway.org/api/where/elements
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OneBusAway/sdk-config/main/openapi.yml
      - type: SDK
        url: https://developer.onebusaway.org/api/sdk
      - type: GitHubRepository
        url: https://github.com/OneBusAway/sdk-config
        name: OpenAPI + SDK Config
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/onebusaway/
  - type: Portal
    url: https://developer.onebusaway.org/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.onebusaway.org/api/where
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.onebusaway.org/api/where/methods
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.onebusaway.org/api/where/elements
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.onebusaway.org/guides/api-webapp-configuration-guide
  - type: SDK
    url: https://developer.onebusaway.org/api/sdk
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/OneBusAway
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-application-modules
    name: Core Application Modules (Java)
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/OneBusAway/maglev
    name: Maglev — Next-Gen OBA REST API Server (Go)
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/OneBusAway/sdk-config
    name: OpenAPI Specification and SDK Config
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/OneBusAway/js-sdk
    name: JavaScript / Node.js SDK
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/OneBusAway/python-sdk
    name: Python SDK
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/OneBusAway/go-sdk
    name: Go SDK
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/OneBusAway/java-sdk
    name: Java SDK
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/OneBusAway/kotlin-sdk
    name: Kotlin SDK
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/OneBusAway/ruby-sdk
    name: Ruby SDK
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-android
    name: Android App
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-ios
    name: iOS App
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/OneBusAway/wayfinder
    name: Wayfinder Web App (SvelteKit)
  - type: AppStore
    url: https://apps.apple.com/app/onebusaway/id329380089
  - type: PlayStore
    url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joulespersecond.seattlebusbot
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/privacy-policy/
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com