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Transport for The Netherlands

Live Dutch bus, tram, and train departures, nationwide

🚆 TransportUNMONITORED
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.

—HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
Docs ↗
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ON PROBE SCHEDULE

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Open provider docs ↗

Uptime historystarts after first probe

On our probe schedule. Uptime charts appear after the first check lands.

Example responsefrom provider docs — not verified by us
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 · 2On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
On schedule — GET /line/ awaits first probe
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

Not tracked yet. Shape-change history starts once this API joins our probe schedule.

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 You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).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?

Transport for The Netherlands is catalogued but not yet on our probe schedule, so we don't publish a live status for it. Check the provider's own status page or docs for its current state.