allbikes

allbikes API

allbikes is an API that provides live station information for Bixi-built Bike Share programs around the world.

Stations currently supported and their respective API reference codes (city code).

Bike Share	City	city code
Aspen WE-cycle	Aspen, CO	ASE
Barclay's Cycle Hire	London, UK	LHR
Bay Area Bike Share	San Francisco, CA	SFO
Bike Chattanooga	Chattanooga, Tennessee	CHA
Capital Bike Share	Washington DC	DCA
Citi Bike	New York City, NY	JFK
CoGo	Columbus, Ohio	CMH
Divvy	Chicago, Illinois	ORD
Hubway	Boston, Massachusetts	BOS
Melbourne Bike Share	Melbourne, Victoria	MEL
Montreal Bixi	Montreal	YUL
Nice Ride	Minneapolis, Minnesota	MSP
Ottawa Bixi	Ottawa, Ontario	YOW
Toronto Bixi	Toronto, Ontraio	YYZ

Goal

While every Bike Share program has a live JSON or XML feed, the data is presented differently thus making a universal bike share app hard to create. This project aims to convert the various data formats to a singular, easy-to-inerpret format.

#Calls

Implemented

/bikeshare/stations

** All Stations

• returns a JSON array of all stations around the world

Planned

/bikeshare/city/:citycode

** One station

• will return a JSON array of stations from one city

/bikeshare/stations/:closest/:lat/:long/:maxresults

** Closest stations

• will return closest stations based on latitude and longitude paramaters

Examples coming soon. Contributions welcome.