A GTFS Schedule (static) General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) feed validator
This command-line tool written in Java that performs the following steps:
- Loads input GTFS zip file from a URL or disk
- Checks file integrity, numeric type parsing and ranges as well as string format according to the GTFS Schedule specification
- Performs GTFS business rule validation (work-in-progress)
- Install Java 8 or higher
- Download gtfs-validator-v2.0.0_cli.jar
To validate a GTFS dataset on your computer:
java -jar gtfs-validator-v2.0.0_cli.jar --input /myDirectory/gtfs.zip --output_base output --feed_name ca-myfeedname
To download and validate a GTFS dataset from a URL:
java -jar gtfs-validator-v2.0.0_cli.jar --url https://www.abc.com/gtfs.zip --output_base output --feed_name ca
where:
--input
or-i
: the path to the GTFS file (e.g.,/myDirectory/gtfs.zip
). Please note that if the input is a.zip
file, it must be the result of the compression of the set of GTFS files. If you compressed the folder that contains the GTFS files no validation will be processed.--url
or-u
: the fully qualified URL to the GTFS file (e.g.,https://www.abc.com/gtfs.zip
)--output_base
or-o
: the path where the validation report will be stored (e.g.,output
)--feed_name
or-f
: the name of the feed as a valid ISO two letter country code, followed by-
, followed by a user-defined name for the feed that cannot contain capital letters. (e.g.,ca-myfeedname
,us-myfeedname
)- (Optional)
--thread
or-t
: the number of Java threads to use
More detailed instructions are on our "Usage" page.
- Download and install Docker
- Pull the v2.0.0 Docker image of this project. For example,
docker pull ghcr.io/mobilitydata/gtfs-validator:v2.0.0
.
To run the Docker image in a new container:
docker run -v /myDirectory:/theContainerDirectory -it ghcr.io/mobilitydata/gtfs-validator:v2.0.0
where:
-v /myDirectory:/theContainerDirectory
: syntax to share directories and data between the container and the host (your computer). With the above command, any files that you place in/myDirectory
on the host will show up in/theContainerDirectory
inside the container and vice versa.
NOTE: On Windows, you must provide the local volume (e.g., c:
) as well:
... c:/myDirectory:/theContainerDirectory ...
The validator can then be executed via bash commands. See the preceeding instructions for command line usage.
We suggest using IntelliJ to import, build, and run this project.
Instructions to build the project from the command-line using Gradle are available in our Build documentation.
The architecture of the gtfs-validator
is described on our Architecture page.
Code licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.
We welcome contributions to the project! Please check out our Contribution guidelines for details.