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Introduction

The General Bikeshare Feed Specification, known as GBFS, is the open data standard for shared mobility. GBFS makes real-time data feeds in a uniform format publicly available online, with an emphasis on findability. GBFS is intended to make information publicly available online; therefore information that is personally identifiable is not currently and will not become part of the core specification.

Currently Dott supports the following version of GBFS:

Private feed​

Although GBFS is envisioned by its maintainers as a public feed, Dott's GBFS API requires authentication.

This is to better serve the needs of partners since it removes the need for having rotating vehicle ids as it would happen in the public version. Also, it is possible to get data for all regions to which consumers have access to via global endpoints, i.e. /free_bike_status.json as opposed to /paris/free_bike_status.json.