🚂 Irish Rail Realtime Scraper

🚀 Export live Irish Rail train positions and status from the Irish Rail public XML API in seconds. From the public Irish Rail source to spreadsheet, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML.

The Irish Rail Realtime Scraper turns the Irish Rail public endpoint into a clean, structured dataset. It pulls live Irish Rail train positions and status from the Irish Rail public XML API, normalizes the fields, and pushes one row per record.

Coverage is whatever Irish Rail publishes on the public endpoint at the moment you run the actor. No login, no API key, no scraping tricks. Just clean data, ready for analysis.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
📊 Analysts	Pull a fresh snapshot for dashboards
🛠️ Developers	Mirror the feed into your own database
📰 Journalists	Verify facts quickly without writing client code
🤖 ML engineers	Build training sets from the public feed
🏢 Operations teams	Monitor changes over time
🎓 Researchers	Use the data for academic studies

📋 What the Irish Rail Realtime Scraper does

• Calls the public Irish Rail endpoint and parses the response.
• Flattens the data into one row per record with clean field names.
• Surfaces upstream errors as a single record with the error field set, so your pipeline does not crash.
• Lets you cap the output with maxItems for cheap previews.
• Streams results to the Apify dataset for instant export.

💡 Why it matters: Public feeds change shape and field names constantly. This actor gives you a stable, documented schema your downstream tooling can rely on.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: direction, lat, lateMinutes, lon, publicMessage, results, scrapedAt, status, trainCode, trainDate. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: This actor depends on the public Irish Rail endpoint. If the upstream is rate-limiting or temporarily unavailable, the actor pushes a single record with the error field populated. Re-run later.

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Adjust any filters in the input form (defaults are fine for a first run).
3. Click Start. Your dataset is ready in seconds. Download as spreadsheet, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML, or pipe to your warehouse.

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