API for Irish Rail live service status

thirteentwenty

Hi,

was wondering if anyone could help me with finding out if this is even possible. Someone did this with the London tube. A real time map of trains:

skyfall version: http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/skyfall/

'pretty' version: http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

Irish rail have a sort of real time map setup here:

http://www.irishrail.ie/index.jsp?p=119&n=157

anyone know where the API is located, if it's available at all? thanks.

Kenz

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but after very little playing with Chrome (Press F12), Irish Rail does seem to freely provide this URL: http://api.irishrail.ie/realtime/

I'd suggest though that you are posting this request message in the wrong section, try under Development instead.

thirteentwenty

well, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the link.

However, then I read this:

Our central signalling system is subject to ongoing work to support this real-time facility. However real-time information has weaker coverage in certain areas, these include:

Hazelhatch - Heuston Line
Athlone - Westport/Ballina Line
Cork Station
Cork - Cobh/Midleton Line
Mallow - Tralee Line
Ballybrophy - Limerick Line
Limerick - Ennis Line
Athy - Waterford Line
Limerick Junction - Waterford Line
Greystones - Rosslare Line
Drogheda - Belfast Line
Drumcondra - Sligo Line

In these cases your query will return the scheduled time only.

... Could end up being a pointless project.

Fred Swanson

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