Mobility
API change historyMobility API contains real time and historical data on cycling and pedestrians throughout Glasgow.
Bike Rentals
Gets granular information on bike rental hires within Glasgow, as sourced from nextbike (branded as OVO Bikes). Data available from 24-06-2014.
Try itRequest
Request URL
Request parameters
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(optional)date
A date that corresponds to the specified period. YYYY-MM-DD for year, month and day. Relative parameters are available, including "yesterday", "X_months_ago" and "X_weeks_ago", where X is an integer e.g. "3_months_ago".
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(optional)date
A start date that corresponds to the specified period. YYYY-MM-DD for year, month and day. Relative parameters are available, including "yesterday", "X_months_ago" and "X_weeks_ago", where X is an integer e.g. "3_months_ago".
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(optional)date
An end date that corresponds to the specified period. YYYY-MM-DD for year, month and day. Relative parameters are available, including "yesterday", "X_months_ago" and "X_weeks_ago", where X is an integer e.g. "3_months_ago".
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(optional)string
ID of the location where the start of the bike hire took place.
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(optional)string
Name of the location where the start of the bike hire took place.
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(optional)string
ID of the location where the end of the bike hire took place.
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(optional)string
Name of the location where the end of the bike hire took place.
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(optional)int
Size of page to return.
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(optional)int
Page of results to return.
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(optional)string
Type of day which the rental took place. Only applicable to daily summaries. Possible values are 'weekday' and 'weekend'.
Request headers
Request body
Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X GET "https://api.glasgow.gov.uk/mobility/v1/get_rentals?date={date}&startDate={date}&endDate={date}&startPlaceId={string}&startPlaceName={string}&endPlaceId={string}&endPlaceName={string}&limit={int}&page={int}&dayType={string}"
-H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"
--data-ascii "{body}"
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
MakeRequest();
Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void MakeRequest()
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
// Request headers
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
// Request parameters
queryString["date"] = "{date}";
queryString["startDate"] = "{date}";
queryString["endDate"] = "{date}";
queryString["startPlaceId"] = "{string}";
queryString["startPlaceName"] = "{string}";
queryString["endPlaceId"] = "{string}";
queryString["endPlaceName"] = "{string}";
queryString["limit"] = "{int}";
queryString["page"] = "{int}";
queryString["dayType"] = "{string}";
var uri = "https://api.glasgow.gov.uk/mobility/v1/get_rentals?" + queryString;
var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
}
}
}
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class JavaSample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
try
{
URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.glasgow.gov.uk/mobility/v1/get_rentals");
builder.setParameter("date", "{date}");
builder.setParameter("startDate", "{date}");
builder.setParameter("endDate", "{date}");
builder.setParameter("startPlaceId", "{string}");
builder.setParameter("startPlaceName", "{string}");
builder.setParameter("endPlaceId", "{string}");
builder.setParameter("endPlaceName", "{string}");
builder.setParameter("limit", "{int}");
builder.setParameter("page", "{int}");
builder.setParameter("dayType", "{string}");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
request.setHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
// Request body
StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
request.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null)
{
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var params = {
// Request parameters
"date": "{date}",
"startDate": "{date}",
"endDate": "{date}",
"startPlaceId": "{string}",
"startPlaceName": "{string}",
"endPlaceId": "{string}",
"endPlaceName": "{string}",
"limit": "{int}",
"page": "{int}",
"dayType": "{string}",
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://api.glasgow.gov.uk/mobility/v1/get_rentals?" + $.param(params),
beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
// Request headers
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
},
type: "GET",
// Request body
data: "{body}",
})
.done(function(data) {
alert("success");
})
.fail(function() {
alert("error");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSString* path = @"https://api.glasgow.gov.uk/mobility/v1/get_rentals";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
@"date={date}",
@"startDate={date}",
@"endDate={date}",
@"startPlaceId={string}",
@"startPlaceName={string}",
@"endPlaceId={string}",
@"endPlaceName={string}",
@"limit={int}",
@"page={int}",
@"dayType={string}",
];
NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
NSLog(@"%@", path);
NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
// Request headers
[_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key"];
// Request body
[_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (nil != error)
{
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}
else
{
NSError* error = nil;
NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
if (nil != _connectionData)
{
json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
}
if (error || !json)
{
NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
}
NSLog(@"%@", json);
_connectionData = nil;
}
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.glasgow.gov.uk/mobility/v1/get_rentals');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
'date' => '{date}',
'startDate' => '{date}',
'endDate' => '{date}',
'startPlaceId' => '{string}',
'startPlaceName' => '{string}',
'endPlaceId' => '{string}',
'endPlaceName' => '{string}',
'limit' => '{int}',
'page' => '{int}',
'dayType' => '{string}',
);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");
try
{
$response = $request->send();
echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
echo $ex;
}
?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}
params = urllib.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'date': '{date}',
'startDate': '{date}',
'endDate': '{date}',
'startPlaceId': '{string}',
'startPlaceName': '{string}',
'endPlaceId': '{string}',
'endPlaceName': '{string}',
'limit': '{int}',
'page': '{int}',
'dayType': '{string}',
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.glasgow.gov.uk')
conn.request("GET", "/mobility/v1/get_rentals?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'date': '{date}',
'startDate': '{date}',
'endDate': '{date}',
'startPlaceId': '{string}',
'startPlaceName': '{string}',
'endPlaceId': '{string}',
'endPlaceName': '{string}',
'limit': '{int}',
'page': '{int}',
'dayType': '{string}',
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.glasgow.gov.uk')
conn.request("GET", "/mobility/v1/get_rentals?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
require 'net/http'
uri = URI('https://api.glasgow.gov.uk/mobility/v1/get_rentals')
query = URI.encode_www_form({
# Request parameters
'date' => '{date}',
'startDate' => '{date}',
'endDate' => '{date}',
'startPlaceId' => '{string}',
'startPlaceName' => '{string}',
'endPlaceId' => '{string}',
'endPlaceName' => '{string}',
'limit' => '{int}',
'page' => '{int}',
'dayType' => '{string}'
})
if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
uri.query += '&' + query
else
uri.query = query
end
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(request)
end
puts response.body