# Turkey Bus Routes & Prices (`gmpsignal/turkey-bus-routes-prices`) Actor

Live intercity bus trips for Turkey as clean JSON: operator, departure and arrival times, terminals and ticket prices in TRY for any city pair (Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Antalya and more). Ideal for travel apps, price monitoring, market research and AI agents.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/gmpsignal/turkey-bus-routes-prices.md
- **Developed by:** [GMPSignal](https://apify.com/gmpsignal) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel, Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 trip results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Turkey Intercity Bus Routes & Prices 🇹🇷🚌

Get **live intercity bus trips for Turkey** — operators, departure times and ticket prices in TRY — as clean JSON. Covers the routes you specify (Istanbul–Ankara, Istanbul–Izmir, Antalya, Bursa and any other Turkish city pair).

Turkey has one of the largest intercity bus markets in the world (500+ operators, thousands of daily departures) and almost no structured data about it in English. This actor fills that gap.

### What you get (per trip)

```json
{
  "from": "istanbul",
  "to": "ankara",
  "operator": "Metro Turizm",
  "departTime": "22:30",
  "price": 850.0,
  "currency": "TRY",
  "sourceUrl": "https://...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-13T21:04:11.000Z"
}
```

### Use cases

- **Travel apps & OTAs** — add Turkish bus inventory signals to your product
- **Price monitoring** — track route prices over time (run daily, diff the dataset)
- **Market research** — operator coverage, frequency and pricing by corridor
- **Trip planners / AI agents** — feed live Turkish route data to your LLM tools

### Input

Provide `routes` as city pairs (lowercase Turkish city names) or paste exact schedule-page URLs into `startUrls`. Set `maxTripsPerRoute` to cap results.

### Pricing

Pay per event: you are charged only for each trip result returned — no subscriptions, no minimums.

### Notes

- Public, server-rendered schedule pages only; no logins, no personal data.
- Prices change constantly; treat results as a snapshot at `scrapedAt`.
- Issues or a route that returns 0 results? Open an issue — response < 24h.

# Actor input Schema

## `routes` (type: `array`):

City pairs to search (Turkish city names, lowercase, e.g. istanbul, ankara, izmir, antalya, bursa).

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Full schedule-page URLs to scrape directly (overrides route URL guessing).

## `maxTripsPerRoute` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of trip results to return per route.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings. Apify Proxy (automatic) is recommended.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "routes": [
    {
      "from": "istanbul",
      "to": "ankara"
    },
    {
      "from": "istanbul",
      "to": "izmir"
    }
  ],
  "startUrls": [],
  "maxTripsPerRoute": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "routes": [
        {
            "from": "istanbul",
            "to": "ankara"
        },
        {
            "from": "istanbul",
            "to": "izmir"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("gmpsignal/turkey-bus-routes-prices").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "routes": [
        {
            "from": "istanbul",
            "to": "ankara",
        },
        {
            "from": "istanbul",
            "to": "izmir",
        },
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("gmpsignal/turkey-bus-routes-prices").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "routes": [
    {
      "from": "istanbul",
      "to": "ankara"
    },
    {
      "from": "istanbul",
      "to": "izmir"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call gmpsignal/turkey-bus-routes-prices --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,gmpsignal/turkey-bus-routes-prices"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/6CyMOFdcr8uTfMfta/builds/q3ngQv1JMbSbjAa1p/openapi.json