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Transport for Philadelphia, US

Real-time SEPTA Philadelphia train positions and delays

🚆 TransportHEALTHYchecked 9h ago
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SEPTA's public API reports live regional-rail train locations, destinations, delays and next stops for the Philadelphia area. No key is required; the TrainView endpoint returns an array of every active train as JSON.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 86 · healthy
Uptime history
100%90 days
100%30 days
714P50 · ms
4585P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 113 ms, slowest 2807 ms, most recent 368 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://www3.septa.org/api/TrainView/index.php

[
  {
    "trainno": "1713",
    "service": "LOCAL",
    "dest": "Trenton",
    "currentstop": "Holmesburg Jct",
    "nextstop": "Torresdale",
    "line": "Trenton",
    "late": 16,
    "SOURCE": "Jefferson"
  }
]
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://www3.septa.org/api/TrainView/index.php"
const res = await fetch("https://www3.septa.org/api/TrainView/index.php");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://www3.septa.org/api/TrainView/index.php")
print(res.json())

BROWSER CALLS BLOCKED (NO CORS/HTTPS) — USE THE CURL SNIPPET

Endpoints · 5HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /api/TrainView/index.php714 mschecked 9h ago
GET/api/TrainView/index.phpPROBED

Real-time SEPTA Philadelphia train positions and delays

GET/api

Api — documented GET route.

GET/api/1

Api details by ID (example: 1).

GET/api?limit=10

Api — documented GET route.

GET/api/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

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.

Transport for Philadelphia, US: common questions

Is Transport for Philadelphia, US free to use?

Yes — Transport for Philadelphia, US is a free transport API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Transport for Philadelphia, US need an API key?

No — Transport for Philadelphia, US needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Transport for Philadelphia, US from the browser?

Not directly — Transport for Philadelphia, US doesn't send browser-friendly CORS headers, so call it from a server or proxy instead. Copy the curl or Python snippet on this page to get started.

Is Transport for Philadelphia, US up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Transport for Philadelphia, US is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 714 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.