NMBS/SNCB to GTFS scraper

Scrapes the Belgian railways and generates GTFS files for the current year.

If you're unsure what GTFS is, check the explanation at http://gtfs.org.

Following traintypes are included: IC, ICE, L, P, TGV, THALYS, TRN and EXT

You can download a copy at: http://gtfs.irail.be/

Install

We use the PHP package manager composer. Make sure it's installed and then run from this directory:

composer install

Custom configuration

You can configure the start_date, end_date, feed_version, language and train_types of the GTFS-files by changing config.php in your favorite editor.

Generating the GTFS file

There are a couple of scripts in the scripts folder. Run them in order. The scraped results will be in the dist folder.

php scripts/*.php

Afterwards, go to the dist folder, and create a zip archive:

cd dist/
zip brail-0.1.zip *
# remove them for the next run
rm *.txt

Your NMBS/SNCB GTFS file is now ready for publishing!