query bird's public per-city gbfs feed hosted on mds.bird.co
domain: bird.co · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Fetch the discovery file at https://mds.bird.co/gbfs/v2/public/<city-slug>/gbfs.json (e.g. seattle-washington) to get the URLs for that city's individual GBFS files.
Look up the correct city slug from Bird's published feed list or the community systems.csv catalog rather than guessing the slug format.
Parse the linked files with standard GBFS client logic; the specific public path here serves GBFS, not the authenticated MDS Provider/Agency endpoints, even though it's hosted under the "mds.bird.co" hostname.
Respect Bird's GBFS Data License Agreement terms (attribution, no unauthorized redistribution) when embedding the data.
Confirm refresh cadence against the feed's own ttl/last_updated fields rather than polling on a fixed assumed interval.
Known gotchas
The "mds.bird.co" hostname is easy to mistake for an MDS Provider/Agency endpoint — the public path under it is GBFS, and access to it does not imply MDS-level authenticated access.
Bird publishes many individual city feeds with no single combined endpoint; budget for per-city discovery and caching rather than one global fetch.
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