Is there a way to determine when the GTFS Complete data was last updated?
Preferably without downloading the whole zip every time (which is grossly inefficient, but the only thing I can think of at this stage).
We’re looking into allowing HEAD requests so you can check when the file was last modified… stay tuned we’ll update when it’s available.
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Why not have a last updated text file as part of the feed?
Feed comes as a single compressed package doesn’t it? Meaning that the entire package would have to be downloaded to determine if its been updated.
Yes currently it’s one package
HEAD requests with last-modified
and content-length
headers is the standard method of detecting an update.
The response is typically less than a few KB.
We’ve just updated the API Gateway so it now supports HEAD requests for static / timetable type data.
Let us know how it goes!
Oh good, I am seeing it working.
Thank you.
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