FOI request detail

Source API for TfL service buses

Request ID: FOI-2591-2223
Date published: 26 January 2023

You asked
I am requesting the API for providing the buses on a route as the current API TfL has provided doesn't include this feature.

We answered

TfL Ref: FOI-2591-2223

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 14th January 2023 asking for information about our API for bus services.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. 

Specifically you asked:

“I am requesting the API for providing the buses on a route as the current API TfL has provided doesn't include this feature.”

Information on our unified API is proactively published online via the following page of the TfL website:

https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/open-data-users/api-documentation - click the link “Bus, Coach and River”.

In accordance with section 21 of the FOI Act, we are not obliged to supply you with a copy of the requested information as it is already accessible to you elsewhere.

If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for any reason, please can you provide a further explanation of the precise, recorded information you require and we can consider the matter further.

Plase see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.

Yours sincerely,

David Wells
FOI Case Officer
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London

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