#Api

iRail project page is located at project.irail.be.

Also, biggest issue (station bug) seems to have been fixed in the API (mobile site soon!). Thanks Pieter Colpaert.

We’ve been busy.

First of all, big thanks for all the code and help from Pieter Colpaert.

Updates:

• API (extreme beta), thanks Pieter (wiki),
• Code clean up, improvements,
• Station bug has not been solved, yet -- working on it, (edit: fixed)
• iRail mailing list, for easy communication (wiki / archive).

And again, Git repo located here. Feel free to participate. :)

You can very easily fork my Git repository, all working improvements will be merged to the main stream.

After careful consideration with my lawyer Ywein Van den Brande, I have decided to put iRail back online.

The copy of the letter to the NMBS/SNCB can be viewed here.

Minor modifications have been made to make it work correctly again with the new route planner of the NMBS/SNCB (changelog); and I’ll keep working on it to optimise it (next on the todo list is a better results page). Also, feedback is always welcome… But mail me; not the NMBS/SNCB. ;)

While trying to find an API or “mobile” (read: iPhone) access for the NMBS website, I came upon some cool stuff.

The time table and train managing software seems made in Germany. The NMBS “look up” site gives you the software and version it is using ("Software versie/dataversie: HAFAS 5.21.B-RAIL.4.7f/5.21.B-RAIL.4.7k - 14/09/08").

Googling for Hafas returns some cool websites.

Using this one, you can download a pdf with all train (including hours) info between two stations. Not quite the same as an API-key, but at least you have something you can save and use lateron.