Is there any Indian Railway API available?

Manish Goyal

@manish-r2Hoep • Oct 27, 2024

Oct 27, 2024

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Anyone knows about any api provided by Indian Railway through which i can get train paths and their current locations?

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Aug 12, 2012

I guess IRCTC API is available, but it's not open to everyone. There are a number of ticketing websites that allow you to book IRCTC tickets; but it looks like in order to use them; your company needs to have an annual turnover of about Rs. 5 crores. 😲 [Not sure though].
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Manish Goyal

@manish-r2Hoep • Aug 12, 2012

The_Big_K
I guess IRCTC API is available, but it's not open to everyone. There are a number of ticketing websites that allow you to book IRCTC tickets; but it looks like in order to use them; your company needs to have an annual turnover of about Rs. 5 crores. 😲 [Not sure though].
yes i too read this 😁 , but i don't want api for ticket booking , instead i need api for tracking location of trains

if there is no api available then i will just have one option of scraping that also i am not sure would be a gud idea
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Anoop Kumar

@anoop-kumar-GDGRCn • Aug 13, 2012

Check <a href="https://erail.in/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Indian Railways Enquiry PNR Status Live Status IRCTC Reservation Seats</a>
They are using it.
you can use HttpAnalyser to fetch all query url and Google APIto draw a pathmap.
See also: <a href="https://www.trainenquiry.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.trainenquiry.com</a>

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Manish Goyal

@manish-r2Hoep • Aug 13, 2012

ianoop
Check <a href="https://erail.in/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Indian Railways Enquiry PNR Status Live Status IRCTC Reservation Seats</a>
They are using it.
you can use HttpAnalyser to fetch all query url and Google APIto draw a pathmap.
See also: <a href="https://www.trainenquiry.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.trainenquiry.com</a>
Thanks anoop

I was just looking for something that would take me less effort otherwise this is already a option for me

My Plan is to display movement of trains on live basis on google maps, for this continuous ajax calls won't be a good option,

Would you suggest any alternative for this?

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Anoop Kumar

@anoop-kumar-GDGRCn • Aug 13, 2012

You want to integrate TrainInquiry information on the erail like google api <a href="https://erail.in/rail/frm_Rail_Map.aspx?TrainID=1960" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Train Route</a> graph.
Its a nice idea to blink current train location on plotted graph.
I don't know if railway provides api. but I think you can do this using HttpAnalyser.

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Toxic303

@toxic303-Qib2VF • Nov 9, 2013

pnrBuddy launched some free and fast APIs. Have a look #-Link-Snipped-#

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Ryan Rajpoot

@ryan-rajpoot-qHyjud • Jul 19, 2016

I am using a source of api on my site <a href="https://www.pnrstatusbuzz.in/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">PNR Status - Check PNR Status of IRCTC and Railway Ticket</a>, is there any way through which i can get api directly from Indian Railway. Do you guys know anything about it. Please point me in right direction. I really need to know about this. Please help me out.

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Muhsin Mohamed Pc

@muhsin-mohamed-pc-pE0QDX • Jul 21, 2016

It is better you to directly contact with the Railway by using their official website. Surely they will provide you API.
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mohan chwala

@mohan-chwala-OXSRim • Sep 3, 2016

i have sent an mail to erail for api registration but didn't get any response from there side for my website <a href="https://spotyourtrain.info" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">spotyourtrain.info</a>. we have launched lightest website to check live train status and pnr status. currently we are using commercial api from some websites.

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mohan chwala

@mohan-chwala-OXSRim • Sep 3, 2016

is there any other website to check <a href="https://spotyourtrain.info" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">spotyourtrain.info</a>, other than erail. since i have to complete my website as mu final year project, can any one help me.

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Aayushi Sharma

@aayushi-sharma-xb4GU6 • Nov 24, 2016

I have found that there are many website which are giving live running train status and #-Link-Snipped-# to any train we have booked, but have found there is some change in time to different sites, don't know from where they all getting such live data.

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singhkgp

@singhkgp-dN8x6a • Jul 4, 2017

You can get you api for very cheap rates around Rs 1000 for 3 months. But price matters the services. They have per day limit for no. of request you can pass to their servers.

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