Rail Station Information
Rail line and station information, including locations, fares, times, and parking.
XML - Station Entrances
Description
Returns a list of nearby station entrances based on latitude, longitude, and radius (meters). Omit search parameters to return all station entrances.
Response Elements
Element | Description |
---|---|
Entrances | Array containing detailed information about station entrances (StationEntrance). |
Description | Additional information for the entrance, if available. Currently available data usually shows the same value as the Name element. |
ID | Deprecated. |
Lat | Latitude. |
Lon | Longitude. |
Name | Name of the entrance (usually the station name and nearest intersection). |
StationCode1 | The station code associated with this entrance. Use this value in other rail-related APIs to retrieve data about a station. |
StationCode2 | For stations containing multiple platforms (e.g.: Gallery Place, Fort Totten, L'Enfant Plaza, and Metro Center), the other station code. |
Request URL
Request parameters
(optional)
number
Center point Latitude, required if Longitude and Radius are specified.
(optional)
number
Center point Longitude, required if Latitude and Radius are specified.
(optional)
number
Radius (meters) to include in the search area, required if Latitude and Longitude are specified.
Request headers
Request body
Response 200
Default response code.
<StationEntrancesResp
xmlns="http://www.wmata.com"
xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Entrances>
<StationEntrance>
<Description>Farragut West, 17th & I St</Description>
<ID>100</ID>
<Lat>38.901098</Lat>
<Lon>-77.039293</Lon>
<Name>Farragut West 17th & I St</Name>
<StationCode1>C03</StationCode1>
<StationCode2/>
</StationEntrance>
<StationEntrance>
<Description>Farragut West, 18th & I St</Description>
<ID>101</ID>
<Lat>38.901453</Lat>
<Lon>-77.042093</Lon>
<Name>Farragut West 18th & I St</Name>
<StationCode1>C03</StationCode1>
<StationCode2/>
</StationEntrance>
</Entrances>
</StationEntrancesResp>
Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X GET "https://api.wmata.com/Rail.svc/StationEntrances?Lat=38.8978168&Lon=-77.0404246&Radius=500"
-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["Lat"] = "38.8978168";
queryString["Lon"] = "-77.0404246";
queryString["Radius"] = "500";
var uri = "https://api.wmata.com/Rail.svc/StationEntrances?" + 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/Rail.svc/StationEntrances");
builder.setParameter("Lat", "38.8978168");
builder.setParameter("Lon", "-77.0404246");
builder.setParameter("Radius", "500");
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
"Lat": "38.8978168",
"Lon": "-77.0404246",
"Radius": "500",
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://api.wmata.com/Rail.svc/StationEntrances?" + $.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/Rail.svc/StationEntrances";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
@"Lat=38.8978168",
@"Lon=-77.0404246",
@"Radius=500",
];
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/Rail.svc/StationEntrances');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
'api_key' => '{subscription key}',
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
'Lat' => '38.8978168',
'Lon' => '-77.0404246',
'Radius' => '500',
);
$url->setQueryVariables($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
'Lat': '38.8978168',
'Lon': '-77.0404246',
'Radius': '500',
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.wmata.com')
conn.request("GET", "/Rail.svc/StationEntrances?%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
'Lat': '38.8978168',
'Lon': '-77.0404246',
'Radius': '500',
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.wmata.com')
conn.request("GET", "/Rail.svc/StationEntrances?%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/Rail.svc/StationEntrances')
query = URI.encode_www_form({
# Request parameters
'Lat' => '38.8978168',
'Lon' => '-77.0404246',
'Radius' => '500'
})
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