🚆 Swiss Transit OpenData Scraper

🚀 Export Swiss public transport data in seconds. Pull journeys, live departure boards, and station search results straight from transport.opendata.ch.

Turn Swiss public transport into clean, structured records you can drop into a travel app, a route planner, a timetable widget, or a data pipeline. Pick one of three modes (connections, stationboard, or locations) and get departure and arrival times, platforms, durations, transfers, coordinates, and line details in a consistent shape.

Coverage is the full public transport network served by transport.opendata.ch: trains, trams, buses, boats, and cable cars across Switzerland. Search any station by name, plan a journey between two stops, or read the live departure board for a single station. No account and no API key are required.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Travel and route planning apps	Plan journeys and show live departures
Mobility and logistics teams	Feed Swiss schedules into routing tools
Data analysts and researchers	Study connections, transfers, and delays
Hobbyists and bot builders	Build a departure board or trip notifier

📋 What the Swiss Transit OpenData Scraper does

This Actor calls the public transport.opendata.ch API and returns one clean record per item for the mode you choose:

• Connections — journeys between a from and a to station, with departure and arrival times, platforms, duration, transfer count, products, and the first leg's line and operator.
• Stationboard — upcoming departures from a single station, with destination, departure time, delay, platform, category, and line.
• Locations — station search by name, returning matched station names, IDs, coordinates, and icon type.

Every record carries a recordType so you can tell the modes apart, plus a scrapedAt timestamp.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: arrival, arrivalPlatform, arrivalTimestamp, category, departure, departureTimestamp, duration, fromLat, fromLon, fromStation, fromStationId, headsign, lineNumber, operator, platform, products, recordType, scrapedAt, toLat, toLon, toStation, toStationId, transfers. All 23 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account using this sign-up link.
2. Open the Swiss Transit OpenData Scraper.
3. Choose a mode (connections, stationboard, or locations).
4. Fill the inputs for that mode and set maxItems.
5. Click Start and grab your results when the run finishes.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with transport.opendata.ch or the Swiss transport operators. Only publicly available data is collected.

🆘 Need Help?

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