roll out a manifest.json discovery index for a multi-city gbfs 3.0 deployment
domain: gbfs.org · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Publish one manifest.json at a single stable URL (e.g. https://example.com/gbfs/manifest.json) if your organization produces more than one GBFS dataset (one per city/system) — this is conditionally REQUIRED in v3.0.
Populate it as an index containing the gbfs.json URLs for every system/city dataset you publish.
Keep each per-city gbfs.json auto-discovery file free of any link back to manifest.json, since the spec forbids that to avoid circular references.
Update your systems.csv entry (the community catalog in the MobilityData/gbfs repo) to point at the correct top-level discovery file for your latest official version.
Validate manifest.json and a sample of the linked gbfs.json files with the GBFS Validator.
Known gotchas
manifest.json is new in v3.0 — older consumers that only understand gbfs.json auto-discovery won't know to look for it, so keep publishing per-city gbfs.json as normal.
A single-city producer does not need manifest.json at all; only add it once you have more than one dataset.
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