Query SNCF's Open Data platform for theoretical and real-time French train schedules
domain: ressources.data.sncf.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Note that SNCF's public Open Data portal is a data-catalog API (built on the Opendatasoft platform) for schedules and reference data — it is not a booking or distribution API, so it cannot be used to sell or reserve tickets.
Locate the relevant dataset (e.g., the theoretical/real-time SNCF schedules dataset) through the portal's dataset catalog before querying it.
Query the dataset using the Opendatasoft-style records/search API — documented in the portal's own API console, which offers multiple concurrent versions (v1, v2.0, v2.1) — filtering by station, route, or time window.
Handle 'theoretical' (planned) and 'real-time' fields as distinct values in the response, since they can diverge during disruptions.
Respect the dataset's ODbL license terms and any documented rate limits when building a production integration on top of the open data feed.
Known gotchas
This is an open-data schedule feed, not a distribution/booking API — an actual SNCF ticket-purchase integration requires a separate commercial partner program (via SNCF's startup/API offering), which is not self-serve public documentation.
The portal exposes multiple concurrent API versions (legacy v1 search vs. v2.0/v2.1 explore APIs) with different query syntax — confirm which version a given dataset's console examples use before copying query patterns.
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