🚲 CityBikes Bike-Sharing Networks Scraper

Bike-sharing data is scattered across hundreds of city networks worldwide. This tool gives you one place to pull live station info, bike counts, and network stats from over 700 bike-sharing systems across North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia.

The CityBikes Scraper collects bike-sharing networks and stations worldwide with names, cities, countries, coordinates, real-time free bikes, empty slots, and company operators.

✨ What Does It Do

• 🌍 Global coverage - over 700 bike-sharing networks across 60+ countries
• 📍 Station locations - latitude, longitude, and street address for every station
• 🚴 Live availability - real-time free bikes, empty slots, and total capacity
• 🏙️ Network metadata - network name, operator company, city, country
• 🔋 E-bike counts - separate tallies for electric bikes and standard bikes where available
• 🔍 Flexible filtering - query by country, city, or a specific network ID

🔧 Input

• Network ID - pull every station from a specific network (e.g. citi-bike-nyc, velib, santander-cycles)
• Country - filter networks by 2-letter country code (US, FR, DE, ES, UK, etc.)
• City - filter by city name (partial match)
• Include Stations - when listing networks, also grab station counts and aggregate stats
• Max Items - free users get 10 records, paid users up to 1,000,000

{
    "networkId": "citi-bike-nyc",
    "maxItems": 500
}

📊 Output

Each record contains network and station details. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

📌 Field	📄 Description
🏷️ networkId	Network identifier
🏙️ networkName	Network display name
🏢 company	Operator company
🌆 city	Host city
🌍 country	2-letter country code
📍 latitude	Station latitude
📍 longitude	Station longitude
🚲 freeBikes	Bikes currently available
🅿️ emptySlots	Open docking slots
⚡ ebikes	E-bikes at station
🏠 address	Street address
⏱️ timestamp	Last station update time

{
    "networkId": "citi-bike-nyc",
    "networkName": "Citi Bike",
    "networkCity": "New York, NY",
    "networkCountry": "US",
    "stationId": "abc123",
    "stationName": "W 52 St & 11 Ave",
    "latitude": 40.767272,
    "longitude": -73.993929,
    "freeBikes": 12,
    "emptySlots": 27,
    "totalSlots": 39,
    "address": "W 52 St & 11 Ave",
    "ebikes": 3,
    "normalBikes": 9,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

💎 Why Choose the CityBikes Scraper?

Feature	Our Tool	Manual Research
Global network coverage	✅ 700+ systems	❌ City by city
Real-time availability	✅ Live station data	⚠️ Per-city dashboards
Unified schema	✅ One format worldwide	❌ Each network differs
Country/city filters	✅ Built-in	❌ Not available
Bulk export	✅ JSON, CSV, Excel	❌ Manual downloads
Scheduled monitoring	✅ Hourly runs	❌ Not possible

📋 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Configure - pick a network ID or filter by country and city
3. Run It - click Start and get live bike-sharing data in seconds

No coding, no juggling different city dashboards.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 🏙️ Urban planners - analyze bike-sharing adoption and station utilization across cities
• 🚴 Mobility startups - research existing networks before launching a new service
• 📊 Researchers - study micro-mobility trends, station density, and fleet sizes
• 📱 App developers - power bike-availability features with fresh station data
• 🏛️ City governments - monitor bike availability to plan station rebalancing
• 📈 Investors - compare operator footprints and network growth rates

❓ FAQ

🚲 What is CityBikes? CityBikes is a long-running public project that aggregates bike-sharing station data from hundreds of networks worldwide into a consistent format.

🌍 Which networks are covered? Over 700 networks including Citi Bike (NYC), Vélib' (Paris), Santander Cycles (London), Bicing (Barcelona), Bixi (Montreal), Mobi (Vancouver), and many more.

⚡ Does it include e-bike counts? Yes, where the network publishes them. The ebikes and normalBikes fields break down the fleet when available.

⏱️ How fresh is the availability data? Station counts reflect the latest update from each operator, usually refreshed every 1-5 minutes.

🔁 Can I run this on a schedule? Yes. Set up a scheduled run to snapshot bike availability every hour or every day for historical analysis.

🔗 Integrate CityBikes Scraper with any app

• Make - automate station data refresh
• Zapier - alert on low bike counts
• Slack - post daily mobility summaries
• Google Sheets - track station metrics
• Webhooks - trigger workflows on completion

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🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify documentation for platform guides
• Contact us at Tally contact form

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to CityBikes, any bike-sharing operator, or any city government. It collects only publicly available mobility data.