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   dragestil (dragestil@hostux.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 19:42:03 JST dragestil

   An abomination called ptv.vic.gov.au: 5MB of javascript, 1MB of css, perfect for people in a hurry to find way from point A to point B by public transport.

   #melbourne #publictransport

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 19:42:01 JST 翠星石

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     @dragestil So that's what they implemented after removing the public transport API for Melbourne huh?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 21:56:52 JST 翠星石

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     @dragestil If I remember correctly, öffi listed something about no longer having support for Melbourne transport due to an API being removed.
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     dragestil (dragestil@hostux.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 21:56:54 JST dragestil

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     @Suiseiseki I don't know whether there was a public api that got removed? I've been using a PTV timetable api that requires authentication for about 2 years now, at https://ptv.libreau.org

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 22:37:27 JST 翠星石

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     @dragestil "Elektronische Fahrplanauskunft" seems to mean; Electronic timetable information, so I guess "EFA API", means "a public API that lists timetable information", which is indeed no longer available for Melbourne (aside from the interface that you've implemented that provideds data from the authenticated API).
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     dragestil (dragestil@hostux.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 22:37:29 JST dragestil

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     @Suiseiseki Interesting, thanks. Commit 77d49b939bfece5392ec4e40740be645ee6a3a08

     > + // 2017-01-13: remove Melbourne

     and the file oeffi/res/values/networks.xml offers some clue:

     > Not available, because the PTV does not offer an EFA API any more.

     The EFA API seems to be a German thing - I could only find a DE wikipedia entry <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronische_Fahrplanauskunft>, is there English documentation about it?

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 23:05:38 JST 翠星石

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     @dragestil There might be, but it appears to me that that the documentation is limited to the git logs, as I don't think the developer(s) made a detailed blog post about it or there was any news articles (as it seems few people knew that there was a public API, plus the only ones that really would have checked would be transport scheduling software developers).
     
     My best guess is that adding support for Melbourne in the past only took a developer a few hours to figure out how the API worked and to convert the data to the right format for display, which is why Melbourne was previously supported, but years later the developer probably didn't want to do the same thing again, plus also have to update API tokens, so Melbourne support was dropped.
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     dragestil (dragestil@hostux.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 23:05:39 JST dragestil

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     @Suiseiseki I see. Would be nice if there's some further info about the old API and what happened, e.g. wayback machine links...