Have you looked at this: https://github.com/datameet/railways
This isn't real time information, but has all the locations, as well as the schedules. Regards, Devdatta On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Udayan Vidyanta <udayan.vidya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Udayan and I am an Interaction Design (M.Des.) student at IDC, > School of Design, IIT Bombay. > > I am currently working on an academic project to visualize real time > indian railway information for the benefit of Indian citizens. > > I would like my visualization to show each train (as and when queried > upon) as an interactive trail between stations (on its route). I would like > my visualization to show train timetable, compare trains and most > importantly to show the real time train running information interactively. > I would like my visualization to aid the users know that what is the > punctuality or lateness trend of a train, where a train is currently, what > is the estimated time that it will reach the next (or 'X') station on its > route, etc. > > Visualization is the next step, but currently I am a bit stuck on how to > get the data. I understand that scraping the railway website should be the > last resort and hence was trying to find APIs that could help get the data > for me. I found two APIs: > 1. http://railwayapi.com/ > 2. http://api.erail.in/ > > I tried to get the key for the API from the above two websites. I received > a free key from http://railwayapi.com/ but it has a 3 month validity and > a limitation of 100 hits a day. That is too less for a public project. > > My request to the website http://api.erail.in/ has not returned a reply. > > I also found a CSV file containing train timetable for the year 2015 from > data.gov.in/ but that does not help my cause that much. > > I would really appreciate it if you all can help me get the data for my > project, suggest API or anything else. > > Thanks, > Udayan Vidyanta > student > IDC, School of Design, > IIT Bombay. > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
