🖼 BART Realtime Departures Scraper

🚀 Scrape Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) real-time train departures from api.bart.gov including station, destination, minutes to arrival, platform, direction, length, color, and bike flag.

🕒 Last updated 2026-07-17 · 📊 12 fields per record · no API key needed

Export to spreadsheet or warehouse formats. Every record is mapped to a consistent schema - image url, station, station abbr, destination, destination abbr, minutes and more, so you can filter, join and export without any glue code. No account or API key required to try it.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Analysts, developers, researchers and operators who need this data as clean rows	Data collection, enrichment, monitoring, and feeding apps, sheets or models

📋 What the BART Realtime Departures Scraper does

• Collects the records you ask for as clean, structured rows
• Returns 12 fields per record including image url, station, station abbr, destination, destination abbr, minutes
• Consistent, flat schema - ready for a spreadsheet, database or app
• Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💡 Why it matters: the raw source returns nested, paged responses. This Actor flattens them into one clean row per record, so the data drops straight into your workflow.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
stations	array	BART station abbreviations to query (e.g. 12TH, MONT, EMBR, ALL). Use ALL for all stations. e.g. 12TH.
maxItems	integer	Cap on the number of results. Free: 10. Paid: up to 1,000,000.
apiKey	string	Optional BART API key. Public key MW9S-E7SL-26DU-VV8V works for light usage.

{"stations":["12TH"],"maxItems":25}

📊 Output

Each item is one record with 12 fields:

Field	Type	Description
imageUrl	string	Image
station	string	Station
stationAbbr	string	Station Code
destination	string	Destination
destinationAbbr	string	Dest Code
minutes	string	Minutes
platform	string	Platform
direction	string	Direction
length	string	Cars
color	string	Line Color
bike_flag	string	Bikes Allowed
scrapedAt	string	Scraped At

✨ Why choose this Actor

• Clean, flat schema - ready to use
• No API key or account needed
• Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML
• Pay-per-event billing - only pay for records returned

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open the Actor on Apify Console
3. Fill in the input fields
4. Click Start
5. Download the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💼 Use cases

Research and analysis - study the data at scale in your own tools.

Enrichment - add structured records to a database, sheet or app.

Monitoring - track changes over time with scheduled runs.

Datasets - build clean datasets for reporting, dashboards or models.

🔌 Automating BART Realtime Departures Scraper

Trigger the Actor via Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive, n8n or any HTTP webhook on Apify's integration platform.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Paste this README into ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Copilot and ask how to integrate the data into your workflow.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need an API key? No - just set the input and run.

❓ Free users? Capped at 10 items per run - perfect for testing.

❓ What output formats? CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML - pick on the Storage tab.

❓ Is the data live? Yes - fetched at run time from api.bart.gov.

❓ Can I schedule it? Yes - use Apify's scheduler or any webhook integration.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify provides webhooks, REST API, scheduled runs, dataset downloads, and integrations with Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Google Drive, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, and more.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with any data source named above. Only publicly available data is collected.