MVG Live unofficial API demo.

mvg_departures.py

"""
Demo / usage of the API endpoint which mvg.de uses itself.

Printed example output:
['21:58: S8 nach München Flughafen Terminal ', '22:02: S8 nach Weßling(Oberbay) ', '22:22: S8 nach Herrsching ']
"""

import requests
import datetime


station = 2  # Marienplatz

def time_until_departure(timestamp: int) -> str:
	dep = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp/1000)
	now = datetime.datetime.now()
	return f'{dep - now}'

def departure_time(timestamp: int) -> str:
	dep = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp/1000)
	formatted = dep.strftime("%H:%M")
	return formatted


r = requests.get(
	f'https://www.mvg.de/fahrinfo/api/departure/{station}?footway=0', 
  # The endpoint checks for a "valid" User-Agent, so make sure to provide one
  # The Auth key is taken from mvg.de
	headers={'X-MVG-Authorization-Key': '5af1beca494712ed38d313714d4caff6', 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.90 Safari/537.36'}
)

j = r.json()


prettified_departures = [
	f'{departure_time(d["departureTime"])} - {d["label"]} nach {d["destination"]} ' 
	for d in j['departures'] if d['product'] == 'SBAHN'
]

print(prettified_departures)

Hi Mammuth,

is there any change in the API from MVG? I try to use your sample but it will not work :-( Do you have any idea what i need to do?

Br,
RObert

You've got your answer on another thread. But for people coming here via search engines: maybe you find what you're looking for at pc-coholic/PyMVGLive#12