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Show HN: Status of my favorite bike share stations

50 points by alexboden 1y ago

arjie 1y ago
Dude, this is fantastic. Thank you. This is my biggest annoyance because I don't have reception in the elevator and I always only remember to check the bikes when I'm there. For the SF Bay Area, the relevant endpoints are: https://gbfs.lyft.com/gbfs/2.3/bay/en/station_information.json https://gbfs.lyft.com/gbfs/2.3/bay/en/station_information.js... and https://gbfs.lyft.com/gbfs/2.3/bay/en/station_status.json https://gbfs.lyft.com/gbfs/2.3/bay/en/station_status.json With this I can build myself a little display that does the same. It does seem to match with the app, but in a tragic twist of fate it appears that the station closest to me has been delisted on the app. Oh fate! What the right hand giveth, the left hand takes! EDIT: Funny that these days no one puts their RSS feed link somewhere visible. Fortunately, most clients do find it on the page quite easily. I wonder how they do. It's not in the HTML source.
- rahimnathwani 1y ago
  Here's a list, but it won't work in the elevator: https://tools.encona.com/lyftbike https://tools.encona.com/lyftbike
  - arjie 1y ago
    Haha, thank you. The app works quite well to see. I just want it to be available before I remember to ask, which I think I can create with an always on display.
  - jeffbee 11mo ago
    That's pretty slick! But isn't the Lyft app just a special-purpose browser for GBFS data files?
    - rahimnathwani 11mo ago
      No idea. I don't use these bikes. But I couldn't resist when GP shared the API endpoints.
jlongman 1y ago
It’s probably worth posting [1] which shows many cities around the world. Also there’s an aging HomeAssistant add-on [2] that lets you visualize stations and stats. But since HA now insists the addon is separate from an API and there’s no separate API (really, it’s trivial) things like electric bike or trailer counts are not exposed. [1] https://citybik.es https://citybik.es [2] https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/citybikes/ https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/citybikes/
- kh_hk 1y ago
  A note on [2], the HA integration has been updated with a separate library so new fields might be coming in the future! https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/151009 https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/151009
mynegation 11mo ago
Haha, I wrote almost exact same app, just in Python (flask)

50 points by alexboden 1y ago

Dude, this is fantastic. Thank you. This is my biggest annoyance because I don't have reception in the elevator and I always only remember to check the bikes when I'm there. For the SF Bay Area, the relevant endpoints are: https://gbfs.lyft.com/gbfs/2.3/bay/en/station_information.json https://gbfs.lyft.com/gbfs/2.3/bay/en/station_information.js... and https://gbfs.lyft.com/gbfs/2.3/bay/en/station_status.json https://gbfs.lyft.com/gbfs/2.3/bay/en/station_status.json With this I can build myself a little display that does the same. It does seem to match with the app, but in a tragic twist of fate it appears that the station closest to me has been delisted on the app. Oh fate! What the right hand giveth, the left hand takes! EDIT: Funny that these days no one puts their RSS feed link somewhere visible. Fortunately, most clients do find it on the page quite easily. I wonder how they do. It's not in the HTML source.

rahimnathwani 1y ago
Here's a list, but it won't work in the elevator: https://tools.encona.com/lyftbike https://tools.encona.com/lyftbike
- arjie 1y ago
  Haha, thank you. The app works quite well to see. I just want it to be available before I remember to ask, which I think I can create with an always on display.
- jeffbee 11mo ago
  That's pretty slick! But isn't the Lyft app just a special-purpose browser for GBFS data files?
  - rahimnathwani 11mo ago
    No idea. I don't use these bikes. But I couldn't resist when GP shared the API endpoints.

jlongman 1y ago

It’s probably worth posting [1] which shows many cities around the world. Also there’s an aging HomeAssistant add-on [2] that lets you visualize stations and stats. But since HA now insists the addon is separate from an API and there’s no separate API (really, it’s trivial) things like electric bike or trailer counts are not exposed. [1] https://citybik.es https://citybik.es [2] https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/citybikes/ https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/citybikes/

kh_hk 1y ago
A note on [2], the HA integration has been updated with a separate library so new fields might be coming in the future! https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/151009 https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/151009

mynegation 11mo ago

Haha, I wrote almost exact same app, just in Python (flask)