LDBWS-Client

A TypeScript client library for the National Rail Live Departure Boards Web Service (LDBWS / OpenLDBWS)

What is LDBWS / OpenLDBWS?

As provided by National Rail:

LDBWS provides a request-response web service to access real time train information from Darwin. This is the same information that powers the Live Departure Boards, provided in XML format.

Why this library?

LBDWS is a SOAP based API which basically means it's kind of a big hastle to use! I created this library as I wanted a simple and updated way to interract with the service for my departure board CLI project called Boards. All other clients for the API seemed to be incredibly outdated or lacking of important features I wanted to use with Boards, so I had to develop my own method of interracting with the service.

How to use

To install LDBWS-Client from npm:

npm i ldbws-client

You will need an API key to use this library, you can apply for one from NRE here

To import the library in your code:

import { LDBWSClient } from "ldbws-client";

// Create a new client instance
const api = new LDBWSClient("TOKEN");

// Get data from the API
await api.GetDepartureBoard("BHM", 10);

Operations

Every operation on the LDBWS API is supported in the client, please refer to the LDBWS documentation here

License

LDBWS-Client is licensed under the MIT license

Copyright (c) 2022 Jack Devey

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LDBWS-Client gets all of its realtime data from National Rail's Live Departure Boards Web Service