# Swiss Transit OpenData Scraper (`parseforge/swiss-transit-opendata-scraper`) Actor

Tap Swiss public transport data from transport.opendata.ch. Query journeys between two stations, live departure boards, or search stations by name. Returns stations, coordinates, departure and arrival times, platform, duration, transfers, and line. Useful for travel and route planning.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/swiss-transit-opendata-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel, Developer tools, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 96.6% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.88 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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## 🚆 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](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp).
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.

### 🔗 Recommended Actors

- [FAA NAS Airport Status Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge)
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- More travel and reference data Actors in the [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge)

> 💡 **Pro Tip:** browse the complete [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge).

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

### 🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our [contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA) or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

For faster answers, join our [Discord](https://parseforge.co/discord). It's the best place to get support and suggest new actors.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

What to fetch from transport.opendata.ch. 'Connections' returns journeys between two stations. 'Stationboard' returns upcoming departures from one station. 'Locations' searches for stations by name.

## `from` (type: `string`):

Only used when Mode is 'Connections'. The departure station name, for example 'Zurich' or 'Geneve'.

## `to` (type: `string`):

Only used when Mode is 'Connections'. The destination station name, for example 'Bern' or 'Lausanne'.

## `station` (type: `string`):

Only used when Mode is 'Stationboard'. The station whose departures you want, for example 'Zurich HB' or 'Basel SBB'.

## `query` (type: `string`):

Only used when Mode is 'Locations'. A partial or full station name to search for, for example 'Bern' or 'Luzern'.

## `date` (type: `string`):

Optional. Date for connections or departures in YYYY-MM-DD format, for example '2026-06-08'. Defaults to today.

## `time` (type: `string`):

Optional. Time for connections or departures in 24-hour HH:MM format, for example '08:30'. Defaults to now.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Free users: Limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users: Optional, max 1,000,000

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "connections",
  "from": "Zurich",
  "to": "Bern",
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "from": "Zurich",
    "to": "Bern",
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/swiss-transit-opendata-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "from": "Zurich",
    "to": "Bern",
    "maxItems": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/swiss-transit-opendata-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "from": "Zurich",
  "to": "Bern",
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call parseforge/swiss-transit-opendata-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=parseforge/swiss-transit-opendata-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/pFyedZh4SZiXgJd34/builds/oG2rpmigsl6EPvok2/openapi.json