baptisteb-a/transport-validator

Validate GTFS files

General Transit Files Specification is a file format defining of transit timetables.

This project allows to validate the format and semantics of the timetable.

Alternatives

• Google Transitfeed
• Conveyal/Catalogue’s Datatool
• Chouette

Build and run

1. This project is written in Rust. Install it.

2. Clone the project:

git clone https://github.com/etalab/transport-validator/
cd transport-validator

3. Run it as standalone

The release version (significantly faster) can be run as:

cargo run --release -- --input test_data/unused_stop

The development version can be run as:

cargo run -- --input test_data/unused_stop

The validator can also read a zip file, or an url:

cargo run --release -- -i some_gtfs.zip
cargo run --release -- -i https://example.com/network.gfts

4. Lint it

To lint our code we use rustfmt

Install it running:

rustup component add rustfmt-preview

Lint your code running:

cargo fmt --all -- --write-mode=diff

5. Run it as a dæmon

The validator can run as a HTTP dæmon to validate any file from a url.

For now the call is synchronous. Be aware that if the file is large, the time required to download the GTFS zip, the request might time out.

cargo run --release

You can then ask for a validation:

curl http://localhost:7878/validate?url=https://example.com/gtfs.zip