Traffic
API change historyA 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 itRequest
Request URL
Request parameters
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(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
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(optional)enum
The period grouping to use. The Day period includes calculates averages and peaks for a day.
Request headers
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