FaSta - Station Facilities Status API

by deutschebahn.com

Overview

A RESTful webservice to retrieve data about the operational state of public elevators and escalators in german railway stations.

FaSta - Station Facilities Status is a transportation API from deutschebahn.com. Requests are authenticated with an API key. It is served over HTTPS. Its OpenAPI description documents 3 endpoints.

At a glance

Authentication: API key
HTTPS: Yes
CORS: Unknown
Category: Transportation
Base URL: https://api.deutschebahn.com/fasta/v2
Version: 2.1
Endpoints: 3
OpenAPI: Specification ↗
Spec updated: 2021-06-21

Make a first request

Replace the placeholders; the documentation says exactly where credentials go.

cURL

curl -X GET "https://api.deutschebahn.com/fasta/v2/facilities" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

JavaScript

const response = await fetch("https://api.deutschebahn.com/fasta/v2/facilities", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

Python

import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "https://api.deutschebahn.com/fasta/v2/facilities",
    headers={
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())

Endpoints

Method	Path	What it does
GET	`/facilities`	Access to public facilities (escalators and elevators) in railway stations
GET	`/facilities/{equipmentnumber}`	Returns the facility identified by its equipmentnumber.
GET	`/stations/{stationnumber}`	Returns information about a station (and its corresponding facilities) identified by a stationnumber.