Transport for The Netherlands

Live Dutch bus, tram, and train departures, nationwide

🚆 TransportHEALTHYchecked 9h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✗AGENT ✓HTTPS ✗COMMERCIAL ?

OVAPI exposes real-time public-transport data for the whole of the Netherlands, keyed by line and stop. Query lines, stops, and live departure times as plain JSON with no key required. Heads up: the domain's TLS certificate is misconfigured, so it answers cleanly only over plain HTTP.

94HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 94 · healthy
Uptime history
98.9%90 days
100%30 days
443P50 · ms
1557P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 91 ms, slowest 1155 ms, most recent 139 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET http://v0.ovapi.nl/line/

{
  "NL_5302_1": {
    "TransportType": "BUS",
    "DestinationName50": "Amersfoort CS",
    "DataOwnerCode": "NL",
    "LinePublicNumber": "302",
    "LineName": "U-liner Amersfoort - Vianen",
    "LineDirection": 1
  }
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "http://v0.ovapi.nl/line/"
const res = await fetch("http://v0.ovapi.nl/line/");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("http://v0.ovapi.nl/line/")
print(res.json())

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

Endpoints · 2HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /line/443 mschecked 9h ago
GET/line/PROBED

Live Dutch bus, tram, and train departures, nationwide

GET/line/?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.

Transport for The Netherlands: common questions

Is Transport for The Netherlands free to use?

Yes — Transport for The Netherlands 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 The Netherlands need an API key?

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 You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Transport for The Netherlands from the browser?

Not directly — Transport for The Netherlands 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 The Netherlands up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Transport for The Netherlands is healthy with 98.9% uptime over 90 days and a 443 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.