Traffic

API change history

A lighter real time traffic API allowing queries of current traffic flows, congestion, location queries as well as the ability to query over a given time period (as of May 2018 onwards).

Query Traffic Movement

Returns the traffic movement information within Glasgow according to some time range aggregated by the selected period (by raw, by day, by week, by month, by year) and for Day, Month and Year gives calculated averages and peaks.

You can either specify a start and end date/time according to the UTC format outlined below and the aggregation period detailed below.

Try it

Request

Request URL

Request parameters

  • (optional)
    int

    The current page number.

  • (optional)
    int

    The number of records to return.

  • (optional)
    string

    The format for the return data - either json or csv.

  • (optional)
    string

    The start date in ISO8061 format - e.g. 2018-05-22T16:22:25Z

  • (optional)
    string

    The end date in ISO8061 format - e.g. 2018-05-22T17:22:25Z

  • (optional)
    enum

    The period grouping to use. The Day period includes calculates averages and peaks for a day.

Request headers

  • string
    Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile.

Request body

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X GET "https://api.glasgow.gov.uk/traffic/v1/movement/query?page={int}&size={int}&format={string}&start={string}&end={string}&period=Raw"
-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["page"] = "{int}";
            queryString["size"] = "{int}";
            queryString["format"] = "{string}";
            queryString["start"] = "{string}";
            queryString["end"] = "{string}";
            queryString["period"] = "Raw";
            var uri = "https://api.glasgow.gov.uk/traffic/v1/movement/query?" + 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/traffic/v1/movement/query");

            builder.setParameter("page", "{int}");
            builder.setParameter("size", "{int}");
            builder.setParameter("format", "{string}");
            builder.setParameter("start", "{string}");
            builder.setParameter("end", "{string}");
            builder.setParameter("period", "Raw");

            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
            "page": "{int}",
            "size": "{int}",
            "format": "{string}",
            "start": "{string}",
            "end": "{string}",
            "period": "Raw",
        };
      
        $.ajax({
            url: "https://api.glasgow.gov.uk/traffic/v1/movement/query?" + $.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/traffic/v1/movement/query";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         // Request parameters
                         @"entities=true",
                         @"page={int}",
                         @"size={int}",
                         @"format={string}",
                         @"start={string}",
                         @"end={string}",
                         @"period=Raw",
                      ];
    
    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/traffic/v1/movement/query');
$url = $request->getUrl();

$headers = array(
    // Request headers
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
);

$request->setHeader($headers);

$parameters = array(
    // Request parameters
    'page' => '{int}',
    'size' => '{int}',
    'format' => '{string}',
    'start' => '{string}',
    'end' => '{string}',
    'period' => 'Raw',
);

$url->setQueryVariables($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
    'page': '{int}',
    'size': '{int}',
    'format': '{string}',
    'start': '{string}',
    'end': '{string}',
    'period': 'Raw',
})

try:
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.glasgow.gov.uk')
    conn.request("GET", "/traffic/v1/movement/query?%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
    'page': '{int}',
    'size': '{int}',
    'format': '{string}',
    'start': '{string}',
    'end': '{string}',
    'period': 'Raw',
})

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.glasgow.gov.uk')
    conn.request("GET", "/traffic/v1/movement/query?%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/traffic/v1/movement/query')

query = URI.encode_www_form({
    # Request parameters
    'page' => '{int}',
    'size' => '{int}',
    'format' => '{string}',
    'start' => '{string}',
    'end' => '{string}',
    'period' => 'Raw'
})

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