Incidents
Rail, bus, and elevator disruptions/outages.
XML - Bus Incidents
Description
Returns a set of reported bus incidents/delays for a given Route. Omit the Route to return all reported items.
Note that the Route parameter accepts only base route names and no variations, i.e.: use 10A instead of 10Av1 and 10Av2.
Bus incidents/delays are refreshed once every 20 to 30 seconds approximately.
Response Elements
Element | Description |
---|---|
BusIncidents | Array containing bus incident information (BusIncident). |
DateUpdated | Date and time (Eastern Standard Time) of last update. Will be in YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss format (e.g.: 2014-10-28T08:13:03). |
Description | Free-text description of the delay or incident. |
IncidentID | Unique identifier for an incident. |
IncidentType | Free-text description of the incident type. Usually Delay or Alert but is subject to change at any time. |
RoutesAffected | Array containing routes affected. Routes listed are usually identical to base route names (i.e.: not 10Av1 or 10Av2, but 10A), but may differ from what our bus methods return. |
Request URL
Request parameters
(optional)
string
Bus route. Use full route code, i.e.: C2 instead of C2v1, C2v2, etc.
Request headers
Request body
Response 200
Default response code.
<BusIncidentsResp
xmlns="http://www.wmata.com"
xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<BusIncidents>
<BusIncident>
<DateUpdated>2014-10-28T08:13:03</DateUpdated>
<Description>90, 92, X1, X2, X9: Due to traffic congestion at 8th & H St NE, buses are experiencing up to 20 minute delays in both directions.</Description>
<IncidentType>Delay</IncidentType>
<IncidentID>32297013-57B6-467F-BC6B-93DFA4115652</IncidentID>
<RoutesAffected
xmlns:a="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays">
<a:string>90</a:string>
<a:string>92</a:string>
<a:string>X1</a:string>
<a:string>X2</a:string>
<a:string>X9</a:string>
</RoutesAffected>
</BusIncident>
</BusIncidents>
</BusIncidentsResp>
Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X GET "https://api.wmata.com/Incidents.svc/BusIncidents?Route={string}"
-H "api_key: {subscription key}"
--data-ascii "{body}"
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
MakeRequest();
Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void MakeRequest()
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
// Request headers
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("api_key", "{subscription key}");
// Request parameters
queryString["Route"] = "{string}";
var uri = "https://api.wmata.com/Incidents.svc/BusIncidents?" + queryString;
var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
}
}
}
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class JavaSample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
try
{
URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.wmata.com/Incidents.svc/BusIncidents");
builder.setParameter("Route", "{string}");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
request.setHeader("api_key", "{subscription key}");
// Request body
StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
request.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null)
{
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var params = {
"api_key": "{subscription key}",
// Request parameters
"Route": "{string}",
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://api.wmata.com/Incidents.svc/BusIncidents?" + $.param(params),
type: "GET",
})
.done(function(data) {
alert("success");
})
.fail(function() {
alert("error");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSString* path = @"https://api.wmata.com/Incidents.svc/BusIncidents";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
@"Route={string}",
];
NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
NSLog(@"%@", path);
NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
// Request headers
[_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"api_key"];
// Request body
[_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (nil != error)
{
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}
else
{
NSError* error = nil;
NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
if (nil != _connectionData)
{
json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
}
if (error || !json)
{
NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
}
NSLog(@"%@", json);
_connectionData = nil;
}
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.wmata.com/Incidents.svc/BusIncidents');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
'api_key' => '{subscription key}',
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
'Route' => '{string}',
);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");
try
{
$response = $request->send();
echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
echo $ex;
}
?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'api_key': '{subscription key}',
}
params = urllib.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'Route': '{string}',
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.wmata.com')
conn.request("GET", "/Incidents.svc/BusIncidents?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'api_key': '{subscription key}',
}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'Route': '{string}',
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.wmata.com')
conn.request("GET", "/Incidents.svc/BusIncidents?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
require 'net/http'
uri = URI('https://api.wmata.com/Incidents.svc/BusIncidents')
query = URI.encode_www_form({
# Request parameters
'Route' => '{string}'
})
if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
uri.query += '&' + query
else
uri.query = query
end
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['api_key'] = '{subscription key}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(request)
end
puts response.body