Transport for London Unified API

Transport for London Unified API

TfL's Unified API provides live London Underground, bus, rail, DLR, Overground, Elizabeth line, river and road-disruption data: line status, arrivals, journey planning, bike points and road disruptions, as JSON. The API portal's FAQ says: "General users are able to access the main Product called \"500 Requests per min\" which lets users make 500 requests a minute against our Unified API."

Coverage

Live status, arrivals, journey planning, bike points and road disruption data across TfL's network (the checked Line/Mode/tube/Status endpoint returned 200 JSON keyless). History start, update frequency and delay: Not stated on the checked pages.

Verdict

Live London Underground, bus, rail, bike-point and road-disruption data from TfL's Unified API; a light keyless check against Line/Mode/tube/Status returned 200. The API portal FAQ says: "General users are able to access the main Product called \"500 Requests per min\" which lets users make 500 requests a minute against our Unified API." The licence terms are based on the Open Government Licence with TfL's own amendments: "These licence terms and conditions apply to TfL’s free transport data service and are based on version 2.0 of the Open Government Licence with specific amendments for Transport for London (the “Licence”)." Attribution is required: "Acknowledge TfL as the source of the Information by including the following attribution statement ‘Powered by TfL Open Data’". The same terms also require: "Acknowledge that this Information contains Ordnance Survey derived data by including the following attribution statement: ‘Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2016’ and Geomni UK Map data © and database rights [2019]". Signal Lab links only.