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BC Ferries

Unofficial live BC Ferries sailing times and vessel capacity

🚆 TransportUNMONITOREDchecked 58 min ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

This community API scrapes BC Ferries' current conditions into clean JSON keyed by terminal pairs. Each route lists upcoming sailings with departure and arrival times plus real-time deck fill percentages. It is unofficial and keyless, best treated as a convenience mirror rather than a guarantee.

—HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
▶ Run liveDocs ↗
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Uptime history
—%90 days
—%30 days
—P50 · ms
—P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://www.bcferriesapi.ca/api/

{
  "BOW": {
    "HSB": {
      "sailingDuration": "",
      "sailings": [
        {
          "time": "5:15 am",
          "arrivalTime": "5:35 am",
          "isCancelled": false,
          "fill": 0,
          "carFill": 0,
          "oversizeFill": 0
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://www.bcferriesapi.ca/api/"
const res = await fetch("https://www.bcferriesapi.ca/api/");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://www.bcferriesapi.ca/api/")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 2On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
First rollup pending — GET /api/ has been probed
GET/api/PROBED

Unofficial live BC Ferries sailing times and vessel capacity

GET/api/?limit=5

Paginated variant with limit parameter.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

BC Ferries: common questions

Is BC Ferries free to use?

Yes — BC Ferries is a free transport API. Free tier: Free — no key. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does BC Ferries need an API key?

No — BC Ferries needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call BC Ferries from the browser?

Yes — BC Ferries returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is BC Ferries up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, BC Ferries is unmonitored. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.