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Citybikes API Documentation ​

The Citybikes API provides real-time and historical bike share data for re-use by transport apps, researchers, visualizations and analytics. The following resources are available.

Real-time bike share information ​

Available in the following formats:

Historical bike share information ​

Time-series records of bike share station status changes, organized by network and month, in Parquet format. More info at https://data.citybik.es

Limits ​

To ensure fair usage, the public API is limited to 300 requests per hour. Rate limits reset every hour. You can inspect the limits in the response headers

shell
$ curl -I https://api.citybik.es/v2/networks
[...]
ratelimit-reset: 1832
x-ratelimit-limit-hour: 300
x-ratelimit-remaining-hour: 297
ratelimit-limit: 300
ratelimit-remaining: 297
[...]

If you need more requests, please contact us at info@citybik.es with details about your project and the number of requests you need per minute/hour. We're happy to provide an API key for most cases.

Alternatively, you can run your own Citybikes node, see: pybikes and hyper.

Using an API key ​

Once you receive an email with your API key, use it by adding the x-api-key header to your request:

shell
curl https://api.citybik.es/v2/networks \
     -H x-api-key:f00b4r12hunter21onetwo345b4zfuzz