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Looks fantastic! There is also an API and documentation available at http://api.tfl.gov.uk http://api.tfl.gov.uk. Disclaimer: I'm part of the combined TfL and
by idlemind 13y ago
Looks fantastic! There is also an API and documentation available at http://api.tfl.gov.uk http://api.tfl.gov.uk.
Disclaimer: I'm part of the combined TfL and BAE Systems Applied Intelligence team (née Detica) that did the build and architecture, along with the great folks at We Are Experience and Attenda.
- hackunit 13y agoAppreciate the namecheck, idlemind. Great team on the project. (I'm part of we are experience)
- Osmium 13y agoIs there an API for Oyster balances yet? (or planned?) I ask as someone slightly concerned by popular apps which seem to rely on you giving some third party your TFL login for them to scrape it for you... Very happy to see that TFL have done as much as they have though. Lovely to see :)
- alexbilbie 13y agoNot yet, both myself and Tom Loosemoore (deputy director of Government Digital Services) have queried about this here - http://blog.tfl.gov.uk/2014/03/12/why-a-new-website-but-no-app-part-2/ http://blog.tfl.gov.uk/2014/03/12/why-a-new-website-but-no-a...
- idlemind 13y agoMore information about 3rd party Oyster apps and TfL's upcoming mobile-friendly Oyster website here: http://blog.tfl.gov.uk/2014/03/12/why-a-new-website-but-no-app-part-2/ http://blog.tfl.gov.uk/2014/03/12/why-a-new-website-but-no-a... Edit: ha, beat me to it alex :)
- madaxe_again 13y agoI love that there are aerospace engineers tasked with doing stuff for the folks who do underground trains :P
- idlemind 13y agoMost of us wouldn't know the back end of a plane from the front end of a tube train :)
- zimpenfish 13y agoMinor quibble - the "here" of "Request one here" is black text on a dark blue background and therefore invisible to me. Another minor quibble - print the rules for passwords before people submit an invalid one. And if you do force a resubmit, persist all the form settings or you're going to annoy me^Wpeople.
- idlemind 13y agoThe link is fixed in the next release. I will ask about the password rules - that does sound annoying.
- iamwithnail 13y agoIt's been a long standing problem, it would definitely improve my life a significant amount! See also : suspending the access after 3 or however many incorrect attempts, but not telling you that's what's happened.
- NickPollard 13y agoGreat work, thanks for building useful, friendly government services. More of this please!
- nybridge 13y agoNice job Timmy!
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoIt's unclear what the duration at the right for each API call is. Rate limit? Information freshness?
- garethadams 13y agoFrom what I remember from the old API site, it is information freshness.
- idlemind 13y agoYep, freshness or TTL in our cache layer.
- gulbrandr 13y agoThe homepage loads with more than 108 KB of JavaScript. Why so many scripts?! Having a fully responsive version means that users will navigate the site on mobile devices where data networks are not always good. Do you intend to reduce the JavaScript payload?
- mcdowall 13y agoFrom the comments I'm trying to work out who you are, struggling tho!