We'll try to answer some of the common issues that are raised when using our new Developer Portal here.
This site is the developer portal for Transport for London's OpenAPI. Developers are encouraged to use it to view documentation and generate subscription keys to access our API.
You can use this API to do things such as get the overall occupancy for a bike point, or air quality data etc.
A "Product" is what you subscribe to, which gives you access to a series of APIs with a subscription key. General users are able to access the main Product called "500 Requests per min" which lets users make 500 requests a minute against our Unified API.
Our CDN layer will track request metrics in order to enforce subscription keys. Our analytics layer will record a sample of successful requests and all failed requests.
Unused accounts are automatically deleted after a year, but otherwise you can directly request it by email.
For large-volume requests please contact us by email.
User accounts that haven't made a request in the last year will be automatically disabled and deleted.
The Terms and Conditions of using the data found in this API can be found our website.
To report issues we recommend visiting the forum.
For more technical guidance we recommend visiting the forum and the TfL Digital Blog.
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